B. Self-Assessment Quiz: ‘What I have learned about Neuromyths”

Learners’ two brain hemispheres have different strengths and weaknesses.

Learning while you sleep is a time-value learning process, while students can learn completely new content while they sleep;

Nighttime restructuring (consolidation) processes in the brain and can lead to new insights.

Brain Gym programs available for sale can prevent learning difficulties, improve students’ learning or creativity, and even raise their intelligence.

 A crossed neural pathway links the left hemisphere of the brain to the right side of the body and vice versa.

Students’ left hemisphere is responsible for intellectual, rational, verbal and analytical thinking, while the right hemisphere is responsible for creative, intuitive and non-verbal thought processes.

The two hemispheres are linked to one another and work together on all processing tasks.

The first part of the brain (the cerebrum) contains two hemispheres that are not completely identical from an anatomical or functional perspective (hemispheric asymmetry),

Educators should not take into account whether learners are left-brained or right-brained in their instruction, because hemispheric dominance merely means that one of the two hemispheres is more strongly involved in a specific cognitive process than the other.

Every learner has a dominant hemisphere that they rely upon more strongly than the other, and student (cognitive) characteristics are rooted in this ‘hemispheric.

People learn better when they obtain information in accordance with their preferred learning style.

One brain hemisphere is more strongly involved in certain cognitive processes than the other (hemispheric dominance).

Quick and easy success during learning improves students’ long-term retention of the learning content.

Educators should follow the structure of school textbooks and teach topics one after another chronologically in order to avoid students’ misconceptions about their teaching topic.

Students’ knowledge acquisition is more sustainable when the learning process is simplified.

Students become overwhelmed when instructional topics are not taught one after another in a structured, sequential way.

That instructional designs in which the learning content is systematically structured facilitate positive learning effects among students.

If a student feels that they learn best by writing the content down in their own words, this is because they then see what they have written down.

Learners differ in the mode in which they prefer to receive information (e.g. visually or verbally)

Educators must diagnose their students’ learning styles and take them into account in instruction.