Brain Facts and Reflection

Brain Facts and Reflection Student’s name Department: University Course: Course Code Instructor’s name Date Brain Facts Reflection 1. Prefrontal Cortex There are primary and secondary cognitive sub-organs in the cortex, which involve the PFC and are related to inhibition and working memory, decision-making and action planning, social cognition and evaluation, and goal maintenance. Thus, the PFC has a significant role in the learning processes of students at different stages, such as planning, organizing, and performing tasks. Realizing the PFC formation and its purposes makes it rational for educators to design atmospheres that foster the ability to both effectively think critically and responsibly manage one's reactions. For instance, planned control tasks or tasks performed with the involvement of many people can activate the PFC, thus improving cognitive control and more flexible thinking. Stress has been discovered to affect the functioning of the PFC, thus affecting concentration, impulse control, and resultant emotional control. Such knowledge is crucial in creating trauma-sensitive approaches to learning that require extra support and ways of handling children who have been affected (Casey et al., 2019). The PFC usually acts as the sink or shock absorber which helps the reception and processing of signals related to pain and trauma. When under too much trauma, the PFC usually shrinks in size, thus limiting its ability to properly handle traumatic events, which further affects the subsequent decision-making capabilities of an individual. The PFC also controls memory modulation and extinction; important aspects that often get greatly impacted by trauma or traumatic events. To this end, trauma can easily result in the loss of certain aspects of memory, based on its extremity. 2. Hippocampus The hippocampus is considered to play a critical role in the process of memory formation and spatial orientation. In professional matters, especially in class settings, this area plays a significant role in the capacity of an individual to transfer new information to existing knowledge. This, therefore, can be managed by educators, using ways that require repetition, learning through activities, and contextual learning to make memory. It makes it easier to design instructional strategies that will facilitate learning since one is aware...