Develop Cognitive Skills
Develop Cognitive Skills – Intensity
Intensity builds cognitive skills
The brain also associates intensity with importance or value. Intense fear creates indelible memories. Intense grief creates inescapable memories. Physical brain connections are stronger, and priority storage space is assigned to information or tasks associated with high levels of intensity.
Application: LearningRx’s one-on-one training is designed to push a student’s intensity threshold. However, intensity need not be unpleasant. Intense activities such as sports competitions are great learning situations. As the student progresses upward in capability and ability in cognitive training, the intensity increases in the speed and complexity of the procedures. That challenge serves as an incentive to go for a higher level of accomplishment and reinforces brain pathways created to record the newly acquired task for future use. This is the development of automatic processing (a subconscious habit not requiring conscious effort).
The most effective training is done one-on-one; one trainer and one student. The trainer must be able to immediately assess the student’s performance and responses to keep the student on track. The trainer is right across the table, watching every aspect of the procedure and allowing only appropriate or correct responses. No other student-trainer arrangement will provide this essential ingredient and produce such great gains.
Develop Cognitive Skills – Distractions
Distractions aid in learning skills development
Distractions tax the brain’s capacity to sort and evaluate the relative importance of incoming information, which involves making thousands of value judgments and assignments each day. The brain’s ability to correctly handle distracting information and interruptions is the foundation for focus and good attention skills.
Application: LearningRx training incorporates deliberate distractions as a training tool. As procedures advance, distractions are a carefully added element. A student’s ability to keep attention focused on a task, without surrounding activities or distractions becoming a limitation on progress, is important for working efficiently and productively. This skill is important in every one of life’s pursuits -- in the classroom, at work, in recreation, and so on.
LearningRx cognitive training includes activities that involve the trainer’s attempts to take the student’s attention away from the assigned task. The trainer actually gets to intentionally pester the student. The subconscious lesson for the student is simply, “I’m not going to allow this to take my mind off of the task I’ve been assigned.” The skill to successfully focus on the assigned task with one part of the mind, while simultaneously being aware that the distraction is still present, is of immense importance in brain training. The student is set up for a satisfying, competitive victory… and the trainer has fun at the same time!
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Excerpts of the book Unlock the Enstein Inside by Dr. Ken Gibson
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