Cognitive Behavior Modification
Feedback - Cognitive Behavior Modification
Feedback helps strengthen mental skills
The brain attaches value and importance to immediate associations. Connections are stronger between information that is closely and repeatedly associated. Immediate feedback provides these types of close proximity associations.
Application: LearningRx training is designed to facilitate immediate feedback of two types -- positive feedback and corrective feedback. In well-designed cognitive training, the one-on-one training relationship between the trainer and student allows for immediate, positive reinforcement. The encouragement provides subtle and effective affirmation for the brain.
This one-on-one design also prevents a student from making false associations. The child is not allowed to practice a procedure incorrectly. Mistakes are pointed out at once. When in error, the learner must begin again, not as punishment, but to re-track the brain’s record of how that skill is accomplished and to record it correctly. Furthermore, as training progresses, the student develops the capability of assessing his own performance and self-correcting his errors. It’s an essential part of the acquisition and automatic use of the skill.
Cognitive Behavior Modification – Sequencing
Sequencing is important
The brain physically changes and expands to accommodate new tasks. It will continue to do this as long as the task requires new connections and recruited neurons. Sequenced tasks do not let the expansion of the brain halt. Capacity is increased at a rapid and continual rate.
Application: LearningRx training is sequenced. Related tasks are grouped to follow one another in logical and progressive steps. This takes full advantage of the brain’s capacity to borrow or recruit neurons to handle related tasks. Sequencing is part of good training procedures and brings about confidence and big changes. Effective sequencing includes challenging but achievable small steps of increasing difficulty in the training task. If the task is too hard, the task is frustrating.
If the task is too easy, it’s boring.
Training procedures also are designed so the student (and the trainer) can experience a procedure at an increasingly more demanding level and often at a faster rate of speed. The accomplishment is satisfying and serves as incentive for the student to attempt the next, more difficult level (just like a video game).
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Excerpts of the book Unlock the Enstein Inside by Dr. Ken Gibson
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