Brain Learning Process

The brain works in mysterious ways. According to Dr. Rita Smilkstein we learn in a series of steps and something as to how you feel when learning something new depends on if you can even remember that knowledge. I believe that the way Dr. Smilkstein explains how the brain works is true compared to some of my own personal stories.
According to the research of Dr. Rita Smilkstein, humans learn in five or six stages, which she calls the Natural Human Learning Process (NHLP). This was true of how I learned to be more independent. The first stage is motivation and what motivated me to move out was seeing my parents struggle. So I decided to lighten their load by taken myself out of the equation. The second stage is beginning practice this was my …show more content…
The best way to understand how neurons work is to compare how they develop to a tree. The forest consist of many trees as to a brain which consist of many neurons. Neurons are even shaped like trees. A tree starts with a seed which is like a soma for a neuron it’s located in the heart wood. The axon is the tree trunk which is covered by bark but in a neuron’s case it’s covered by a myelin sheath. The dendrites are the branches and the axon terminals bulbs are the tree stems. The same way all the parts play in how the tree works are the same in which all the parts of a neuron work. Electro-chemical impulses are like the tree trying to get nutrition to the roots, which is called synaptic firing in a neurons …show more content…
For example when I was learning how to be independent and still go to school I knew that meant I would have to get around on my own. I didn’t have a car or a license and I knew that was going to be the only thing standing in my way. Me being born and raised in Philadelphia I knew there was other means of transportation but living in Hampton I couldn’t quite grasp the bus schedule and after a while I decided to buy a learning car and teach myself how to drive. I have held my learners permit for two years and had develop a fear of driving. My mom would let me drive every once in a blue moon but I would scare her so bad that she eventually stopped that. By this time I had my Toyota siting in my drive way for about two months and its nothing more frustrating than to walk past your own car to go catch a bus. So I complained to my grandmother and she said well just come try and wing the test in Smithfield. She said it’s just long roads, you should pretty much be the only person on the road at the time and, and I’m pretty sure that the test instructor would go easy on you. Me being a nervous Nancy I tried to gather up all the courage I could and just go take the test. My nerves still got the best of me and I ended up telling the lady this is the third time I ever drove, I was going forty-five miles per hour in a thirty five lane and I wasn’t using my