Soc sci

• Human brain


  • Highly essential and powerful part of the human body
  • One of the largest and most complex organs in the body
  • Processing center of different signals and information, communicating over a trillion of connection through synapses
• Brain stem


  • Consists of medulla, pons and the midbrain which controls breathing, heart rate and other autonomic processes
  • Connects the brain with the spinal cord and the rest of the body
• Cerebellum


  • Involved in balance and motor control
  • Involved in cognitive functions: attention, language, emotional functions, processing of procedural memories
• Cerebrum


  • Makes up 75% of the brain by volume and 85% by weight
  • Divided into a large groove, known as the longitudinal fissure, into two distinct hemispheres
  • Contains the corpus callosum
• Whole brain model


  • Developed by Ned Hermann, the father of brain dominance technology
  • Theory of brain dominance where people develop a dominant mode of thinking preferences
  • The brain is divided into 4 metaphoric quadrants referring to preferred modes of thinking, learning, and working
• Logical rational/analytical thinking


  • Preferred activities: Collecting data, listening to informational lectures, reading textbooks, judging ideas based on facts, criteria and logical reasoning
• Organized planned/sequential thinking


  • Preferred activities: Following directions, doing repetitive detailed homework problems, managing time and schedules
• Interpersonal feelings/interpersonal thinking


  • Preferred activities: Listening to and sharing ideas, looking for personal meaning, giving sensory input, and joining group studies
• Big picture/imaginative thinking


  • Preferred activities: looking at the big picture, taking initiative, simulations (what-if questions), visual aids, brainstorming
• Right brain


  Intuitive, thoughtful, subjective
• Left brain


  Logical, analytical, objective
• How to use both sides of the brain if you are left brained

  1. Balance mind and heart when you communicate or engage in activities

  2. Use images and visualization exercises

  3. Listen to music, find any interest or hobby

  4. Try to break your daily routine/schedule and engage in unplanned activities
• How to use both sides of the brain if you are right brained

  1. Engage yourself deeper into getting facts and details

  2. Engage in planning activities or exercises

  3. Play complex games that interest you like chess, or any board games

  4. Work with numbers and explore or study any mathematical topics
• Mind mapping


  • A diagram based on a particular word or idea
  • Presents a picture or a powerful graphical style which leads to unlock its potential to explore its possibilities from a word, image, number, logic, rhythm, color, and spatial consciousness in a unique manner
  • Tread into many possibilities
• Origin of mind mapping

  • Developed by Tony Buzan, a popular British psychology author and television personality in the late 1960s who used diagrams to map out information
  • Mind mapping has been used throughout history in learning, brainstorming, memory, planning, visual thinking, and problem solving of varied professionals
• Materials needed in mind mapping
• Example of mind mapping


  • Right brain
  • Left brain