Whether you are seeing third graders at PS 183 learning to read, or the graduating class at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, we see the effects of human conditioning.
Your personal life goals, beliefs, and attitudes, as well as career and relationship decisions, are the result of your genes and the conditioning of society. Would you be the same person you are now if you were born into an impoverished family in African Ghana?
His conditioning would be for another style of life, not North American; your culture
I would not encourage higher education or a career dedicated to personal wealth.
Operant conditioning, as revealed by BF Skinner at Harvard (1904-1990), is
based on how a reinforcing stimulus causes a behavior to exist or be extinguished.
The consequence of the behavior (your response) is reinforced (through repetition) or inhibited. Learn and remember, specific behaviors are followed by identifiable consequences. Repetition is the foundation of learning through Association.
You get the M&M or you get hit on the knuckles, and the pleasure
or the punishment registers and changes your hardware also known as your subconscious mind, for the future. See, you’ve been conditioned. Is the secret
repetition?
Human genome
Whether you marry at 22 or 37 or not, cultural conditioning influences you. Why does this man or woman practice law or medicine while their high school classmate makes hamburgers at McDonald’s for the next 25 years?
What is not programmed by genetics is SoftWired by personal experience and exposure to circumstances. Your brain is the wiring (how), your mind contains the instructions (what) in your SoftWiring.
Mental SoftWare is analogous to your left hemisphere, encoding and decoding language and reasoning. Your mental hardware (wiring) resides in your right hemisphere and contains your genetic code. Your right brain is holistic and spatial, and runs much of your mental images, along with your autonomic nervous system. How do we improve our skills and achieve mastery? Is it by repetition?
Sciences
In 1962, the Nobel was awarded to Francis Crick and James D. Watson for discovering that the structure of DNA is in the shape of a double helix.
DNA is a blueprint with instructions for making proteins and RNS.
molecules from living cell structures. It carries out inheritance with a chemical compound called nucleotides; It has four bases: adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine.
Today, as a result of the efforts of scientist J. Craig Venter and the Human Genome
Project, we are looking at the sequencing (mapping) of our DNA. The best estimates are the
the human genome has 34,000 genes; some scientists believe that they will eventually discover up to 125,000 genes.
Repeat, repeat, repeat
Your mom was right; repetition is the mother of memory. Later you learned by
yourself, memory is the parent of learning. Every time you access (retrieve) a
long-term memory, triggers the firing of the synapses of your neurons in
that circuit. Use it or lose it applies to muscles and neurons. The shot strengthens through repetition creating a joint effort of your neurons.
Repetition causes a deeper impression of memory. Engrams (memory traces) that are
used, alive; the disuse of knowledge causes atrophy by pruning. Cells that fire together, connect together (Donald O. Hebb, 1949), it means that you get synaptic efficiency by
repetition, REP-etition and repetition.
Advertising
The main law of advertising is: repeat your message three times in each ad.
The first time it is not registered and it is lost. The second impression looks for a
association with related information and is poorly remembered; and the third reading causes a memory groove (furow) in your cerebral cortex.
The language of the brain is images, mental movies. No image, no engram
(memory trace). And the memory? The language (communication) of
memory and learning is Association. New memories must be linked with old ones
term memories. Guess how? Repetition.
Drill and kill
For adherence, the Wernicke and Broca areas of your brain must decode (interpret) language symbols into meaning. The first few times you see an object, name, or
idea that only has a level of recognition of consciousness (information), not knowledge.
Having knowledge requires overlearning, knowing things automatically without conscious participation. Does the answer to 9×9 have to stop and count on your fingers, or is it the knowledge of the autopilot? The same goes for writing, speaking
and reading. When driving, do you stop to signal your foot to hit the brake or accelerator? Conduction is derived from the right brain and is reinforced by repetition.
Most of us stop at knowledge of information, we never get to overlearning. More than 90% of what we read and hear (unless you press an emotional button) goes through the left ear and comes out the right. Unless you are motivated to know (inquiring minds need to know), you will not retain things learned exclusively with your left hemisphere.
Catch this brain stuff
Learning is a transfer of information from our left brain to our right brain
where it becomes Knowledge. Now it becomes pattern recognition,
pilot, space and retrievable on demand.
Learn to play golf, tennis, and typing by learning the rules through repetition, a left-brain process. You master your sport or skill when you stop analyzing the steps and go on autopilot using your right brain.
Your right brain is holistic, sees the big picture, is intuitive, and controls the pattern
recognition. It can deliver 11 million bits of information per second, while its
the left side of the brain, verbal, logical, and analytical, has only 60 bits of bandwidth per second.
Guess which one has room to store long-term knowledge? Your mental imagery
and sounds are elements of the right hemisphere of the brain, at the same time that breathing, heartbeat and blood circulation operate. The bright stars aim to integrate both
hemispheres and use memory techniques to install long-term knowledge.
the best for the end
If you choose to learn and use these three sentences, the results may surprise you.
They are easy to learn, quick to learn, and allow you to influence both students and
Adults. Google Nathan Blaszak why he gives you power over others,
a) If-you-were … Mentally visualize a terrifying werewolf to remember the werewolf,
in If-You-Were. Continue: If-you-were … to learn to read quickly.
b) You may realize … Mentally visualize Mighty Joe Young, year 800
pound gorilla to remember the Power in You-Could-Notice. Keep going:
you may notice … extraordinary results in learning and memory.
c) To the point … Mentally visualize a 5 foot high exclamation point
to retrieve point at point. Keep going: to the point … where you feel great and happy about the speed reading ability.
Another example
For students: if you pay attention to these spelling secrets,
may notice higher grades, more self-esteem, and ranking
in the top 10%, to the point where you take on high school, college, and graduate
college. (You may want to experiment with these 3 powerful sentences.)
See you,
copyright 2007
H. Bernard Wechsler http://www.speedlearning.org [email protected]
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