Fact or Myth (BBL)

Intelligence

Mental capacity is hereditary and cannot be changed by the environment or experience.

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Intelligence



Intelligence is fixed – You can’t change the brain.

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Brain Architecture

Our brain acts like a video camera; we store and make a memory of everything we see.

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Brain Architecture

Brain parts work in isolation from one another.

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Teaching and Learning

Use lots of the same kinds of Math problems (drill and skill).

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Teaching and Learning

Individuals learn better when they receive information in their preferred learning styles.

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• Myth

Memory

The brain remembers everything it has ever experienced; forgetting is simply an absence of recall ability.

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Memory

Memorization is unnecessary for complex mental processing.

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Emotions and Learning

Learning can be isolated from the social/emotional context.

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Emotions and Learning

Reasoning and decision making can be divorced from emotion and feeling, and doing so improves the quality of thought one engages in.

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• Myth