Brain Facts Quiz: Understanding the Amazing Capabilities of the Human Brain, Summaries of Biology

Download Brain Facts Quiz: Understanding the Amazing Capabilities of the Human Brain and more Summaries Biology in PDF only on Docsity! Quiz from Think Change Consulting & used with permission; adapted by Lucy Holbrook & Inner Learning First July2020 OUR AMAZING BRAIN QUIZ Consider the 10 statements below and decide which are True and which are False. Put a Tor F in the right hand box. 1 The brain has 100 billion neurons, each one can connect with as many as 15,000 other neurons 2 To all intents and purposed the female and male brain are identical 3 Habit is the brain’s way of saving its resources for the things that really matter - things like survival and managing threats 4 The brain accounts for 20% - 25% of the body’s oxygen and calorie consumption – even though it is only 3% - 4% of body weight 5 The brain is 20% more active while we are sleep compared to when we are awake 6 Challenge, exercise and a healthy diet can all help the brain to generate and repair neurons 7 Research shows that as much as 80% of our daily thinking and behaviour is based on habit rather than conscious control 8 The brain is 3 – 4 times more likely to see external change as a threat than as a reward 9 When it comes to providing information to the brain vision trumps all other senses 10 Mirror neurons are brain systems that show similar patterns of activation when observing others engaged in activities as when we are engaged in the same activity ourself Quiz from Think Change Consulting & used with permission; adapted by Lucy Holbrook & Inner Learning First July2020 Brilliant U Brain Facts • You have 100,000,000,000 (a trillion) neurons in your brain. • Each neuron is connected on average to 10,000 other neurons in the networks of connections. • These makes a circuit of over 1,000,000,000,000,000 (a quadrillion) connections. • This circuit is governed by a set of complex rules which mean these connections are plastic and adaptive. • What you think, is the outcome of many, many, many connections and complex processes which in turn are shaped by your experiences of the world. Your brain make new connections all the time. This is learning. • Your brain is very good at doing complex things and adapting to the constantly changing environment which is your world. • Most computers have 2,000,000,000 (2 billion) transistors. • Each transistor is connected to two others in a sequence of connections. • This makes a circuit of 8,000,000,000 (8 billion) connections. • This circuit is governed by a set of simple rules in which a signal can only be off (0) or on (1). • Computation is the outcome of this lighting fast repetition of very simple tasks. • A computer needs to be programmed to perform ad can only obey those instructions. • A computer is very good at doing things which can be broken down into simple steps and doing these things very quickly.