INDEX
customized instruction and, 68–69 effect of emotional environment on performance, 45 grade level expectations and, 145 importance of sleep to, 137–38 massed, 100 meaningful, 115 memory and, 98 multimedia exposure and, 208 multiple cues in, 214 multiple intelligences and, 63–64 in multisensory environment, 208–9 need for homework and, 144 review holidays and, 144 school systems and, 66–69 sleep and, 160–65 spaced, 100 stress and, 172, 178, 180–81, 184–85 timing of information and, 143–46 traumatic stress and, 46 vision and, 232–33 Learning models discovery-based, 273 problem-based, 273 LeDoux, Joseph, 140 Left brain/right brain personalities, 4, 250 Left hemisphere, 77 Left inferior prefrontal cortex, 132 Lens, 224 Library model, retrieval and, 128 Life-threatening events, 177–78 Light, vision and, 224 Lizard brain, 40 Logical/mathematical intelligence, 64 Logical reasoning ability, impact of sleep loss on, 163 Long-term memory, 121–47 consolidation and, 125–27 exercise and, 14 forgetting, 142–43 formation of, 137–38
repetition and, 130–38 retrieval, 127–28 Long-term potentiation (LTP), 134–35 early, 134–35 late, 135 Luther, Martin, 248 M Macadamization, 21 Maintaining attention, 80 Malacrane, Vincenzo, 57 Males. See Gender; Men The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Sacks), 77 Mapping, brain, 64–66 Marital conflict, unresolved, and stress, 183 Marital stress, effect on academic performance, 184–85 Marriage intervention, 189–91 Mass customization, 69 Massed learning, 100 Mathematically, capacity to reason, 33 Math knowledge, impact of sleep loss on, 163 Maugham, W. Somerset, 205 Mayer, Richard, 208, 209 rules for multimedia presentation, 210 Maze-pattern sequence, 163–65 McAdam, John Loudon, 21 McEwen, Bruce, 182 McGurk effect, sensory integration and, 201 Medial temporal lobe, 137 Medical-school model, components of, 274–76 Medical schools, analyzing success of, 274–76 Medina Grump Factor (MCF), 5 Meltzoff, Andy, 266 Memories, 3 attention and, 75–76 292