Expanding Your Cranium
Understanding How Your Brain Thinks

 Part I                  Part II  &   Part III     

Part I - Play the Cranium™ game.

Choose  the Cranium category card that you are the most comfortable working with.

Star Performer CopyCat

Creative Cat Cloodle

Data Head Factoid

Word Worm Zelpuz

Part II - Take the Hemispheric Dominance Inventory (aka Brain Survey).  Be sure to read the introduction and the final summary of your results.  Record your specific information below.

You responded as a right brained person to _____ questions, and you responded as a left  brained person to _____ questions.  According to the Hemispheric Dominance test, you use your __________ brain the most.  (Note: There were 18 total questions.)

CIrcle the type of cognitive processing generally characterizing your dominant hemisphere:

Linear   vs.  Holistic	Logical    vs.  Intuitive
Sequential   vs.  Random	Verbal   vs. Nonverbal
Symbolic   vs.   Concrete	Reality-Based   vs.  Fantasy-Oriented

Read about the information processing styles characteristic of your right or left brain.

 

Part III - Respond to the following writing prompts based on your experiences playing the Cranium™ game and the results of the Brain Survey:

1. Characterize your natural or preferred learning styles.  Be sure to describe
   your stronger areas in detail, citing specific strategies and examples from the game,
   the survey, and your life in general.
2. In what ways can you improve your less dominant learning style? State at least
   one strategy that you can adapt to improve your study strategies and how you
   will implement it in your work.
3. Name at least one thing about yourself that you learned through this Cranium activity that
   you did not know before.
4. Name at least one thing about a classmate that you learned through this activity that you
   did not know before.