Reasoning
Information is pouring into our brains because we’re actively listening. Your teacher has made the classroom free of distractions so we can focus. The next thing on our learning list is processing what we hear and see.
Processing is a great word, but it makes our brains sound like factories. Food gets processed in a factory, and things get packaged in a factory. So, instead of just processing information, let’s do some reasoning, a key part of our learning.
Reasoning means thinking in a logical way. (Oh no, another strange word. Logical means step-by-step.) Reasoning happens in the front of your brain (the frontal lobe), behind your forehead. Check the diagram at the top of this post.
It can do many tasks; it is excellent at keeping lists. As it completes one task, it moves to the next one.
So, let’s say your teacher has asked, "What season are we in at the moment?” (Yeah, easy, right?)
Here’s what your brain does:
It checks the weather by getting you to look outside or
It uses a memory of the weather report you saw on TV before school
Information travels from your eyes or your memory to your frontal lobe
Your frontal lobe decides on the answer
Of course, there are many other ways you could reason. For example, you may be wearing your ski jacket because of the snow outside.
