Being Super Busy May Be Good for your Brain, Outline

Complete the outline of the text with the ideas provided at the end of the exercise.
I. Introducing
1. The topic
2. The context
3. _________________
II. Presenting the results of Festini’s research
1. Busy people testing better:
i. Brain processing speeds
ii. ________________
iii. vocabulary
2. Enhanced episodic memory
III. Psychologist Small comments about Festini’s et al. research
1. Reaffirmation of their results
2. What this study adds to the field
IV. Posing again the problem of study
V. ________________
1. Description of the sample
2. Name of the study
3. _________________
VI. Brain function evaluation:
1. With tests
i. At home
ii. In the lab
2. Aspects evaluated:
i. Processing speed
ii. Working memory
iii. Episodic long-term memory
iv. Reasoning
v. ________________
3. How some aspects were tested:
i. Processing speed:
a) Finding differences among strings of numbers
b) Matching numbers to symbols in a code
ii. Working memory:
a) Computer games tests
VII. ________________
1. Consistent correlation between busyness and brain function across age
2. Expectations vs reality:
i. Higher levels of stress in busy people detrimental for brain function
ii. Brain benefits of busyness more significant than bad effects of stress
VIII. Limits of the research
1. Unmeasured negative effects of busyness
i. Distractibility
ii. Reasons that explain the existence of the relationship between busyness and cognition
IX. Rephrasing the problem of study
 X. ___________________
1. Measured participation in:
i. Jogging
ii. Gardening
iii. Social activity:
a) Going out
b) Visiting friends
iv. Using computer
v. Playing bridge
2. Findings:
i. Cognitive declined buffered by changes in lifestyle
ii. Quitting new activities when declines
iii. __________________
a) Improve cognitive abilities
b) Have more opportunities to learn
c) Engage in challenging tasks
XI. Festini’s reassuring their research results with Small’s:
1. Consistent results using challenging activities to learn:
a) Quilting
b) Digital photography
XII. Implications for the scientist community
1. Challenges to promote cognitive health
a) Manipulate the effect
b) Produce structured activities

Use this information to complete the outline. Write only the numbers on the lines provided.

1. Crystalized knowledge
2. Methodology to evaluate busyness
3. Comparing the results of evaluating busyness and brain function
4. Reasoning
5. The experiment
6. Advantages of learning something new:
7. The researchers: Festini and her team
8. Small’s results analyzing the effects of changes in lifestyles: