Your brain and law school : a context and practice book / Marybeth Herald, Thomas Jefferson School of Law.
2014
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Author
Title
Your brain and law school : a context and practice book / Marybeth Herald, Thomas Jefferson School of Law.
Published
Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2014]
Copyright
©2014
Call Number
K100 .H45 2014
ISBN
9781611632262 (pbk.)
1611632269 (pbk.)
1611632269 (pbk.)
Description
xxix, 153 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)881387886
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Series Editor's Preface
xiii
Acknowledgements
xv
Introduction
xvii
Section 1
Pushing Your Brain Through Law School
ch. 1
The Brain Is a Creature of Habit
5
Conclusion: Setting the Stage for Automation
8
ch. 2
Playing the Long Game in Law School
9
Outwitting Your Brain: The Case Briefing Example
9
Conclusion: Establish a Good Foundation
14
ch. 3
Outlasting Your Brain
17
Brain Fatigue
17
Conclusion: Habit Helps You Outplay Your Brain
21
ch. 4
Can You Grow a Brain?
23
Adopting the Growth Mindset
23
Conclusion: Yes, You Can!
26
ch. 5
How to Grow a Brain
29
Stop Cursing Nature
29
Conclusion: No Secrets Here---Focused Practice
34
ch. 6
Being in Your Right Mind for Classes
37
The Pre-Class State of Mind
37
In Class and Encouraging Synaptic Activity
39
The Growth Mindset Post-Class
43
Conclusion: Persist
45
ch. 7
Learning the Law: Don't Get Stuck Just Memorizing
47
Remembering Rules---Necessary But Never Sufficient
47
Memorizing Made Easier---Trying to Understand
50
Helping the Brain to Organize the Information
52
The Outline and Why It Works, If You Do It
54
A Chunk at a Time
57
Conclusion
61
ch. 8
Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me: Testing Yourself
63
Moving Past Your Outline and Learning to Apply the Rules
63
Your Brain Is Ready for Testing
65
Conclusion: Pre-Testing is the Key to Success
68
ch. 9
But Mom Thought It Was Great: Getting the Right Feedback
71
Learning to Live with Mistakes
71
Seeking Feedback
74
Finding Feedback Beyond the First Year
77
Conclusion: Actively Seek Feedback
78
Section 2
Thinking Critically
ch. 10
The Brain Edits: Why Seeing Should Not Mean Believing
81
Conclusion: Looking for Gorillas in Your Midst
85
ch. 11
Gut Reactions and Why to Suppress Them
87
Getting Past Truthiness
88
Conclusion: Become a Skeptic
91
ch. 12
Making Persuasive Arguments: The Need to Understand Our Cognitive Biases
95
Yes, Your Brain Has Biases
96
Conclusion: Know Thy Brain
99
ch. 13
You've Been Framed
101
The Framing Bias: Setting the Scene
101
Learning the Trick to the Question
106
Frame Yourself
109
Conclusion: Framing for Life
113
ch. 14
The Apple of Our Own Eyes: The Egocentric Bias
115
Surprise: You May Not Be As Special As You Think
115
The Egocentric Bias and the Law
117
Conclusion: Practicing Defensive Pessimism
120
ch. 15
Sticking to Our Story: Confirmation Bias, Selective Perception, and Rationalization
123
Starting with the Result and Working Backward: The Confirmation Bias
124
Confirmation Bias' Best Friends: Selective Perception and Rationalization
125
Critical Thinking: Combatting Confirmation Bias, Selective Perception, and Rationalization
129
Conclusion: Consider the Opposite
131
ch. 16
Our Brain's Limited View of the World: The Availability Bias
133
Living in Your Head
133
Spotting the Availability Bias in Law
135
Doing Battle with the Availability Bias in Law and Life
137
Conclusion: Take a Different Perspective
139
Conclusion
141
Index
143