STEP 1:

• Describe one very simple task (not the one I describe below or anything related to the telephone) that anyone could do. Feel free to have fun with this assignment. You’ll find that funny, gross, and scary things make remembering easier.
• Break down the simple task and create a list of subtasks.
• Post your idea for a simple task and the list of minute tasks that you came up with prior to seeing other people’s tasks;
• Review other people’s tasks and breakdowns and offer suggestions for additional nit-picky sub-components;
• When someone posts a task similar to someone else’s, work to make sure they modify the list of subtasks to make the task lists different.
• Provide meaningful help to several peers, making sure that everyone who posts their task gets some help           

Here is an example of what your post might look like:

Simple task: The phone rings with a ringtone of John Denver (Links to an external site.)‘s song, Rocky Mountain High (Links to an external site.). I recognize the John Denver song, and recognize that is the ringtone I use for my Mom. I pick up the phone and say, “Good morning, Mom!” When Mom says, “Hi! I just wanted to call and see how you were doing.” I recognize her voice, and say, “It’s so good to hear your voice.”

• Hearing the phone ringing
• Hitting the button on my phone to open the line
• Greeting my Mom by saying, “Good morning, Mom!”
• Recognizing the voice that says, “Hi! I just wanted to call and see how you were doing.”
• Understanding the words, “Hi! I just wanted to call and see how you were doing.”
• Speaking the words, “Mom, it’s good to hear your voice!”

Hearing the phone ringing

• temporal lobe: auditory cortex (1) for detecting and organizing perception of sound of the ringtone.
• temporal lobe – association area (2) for recognizing the ring as being associated with my phone
• Associating the ringtone with my Mom
• frontal lobe: association cortex (3) for connecting the song Rocky Mountain High to the fact that my Mom is on the other end of the line
• hippocampus (4) for remembering that John Denver sings Rocky Mountain High
• amygdala (5)

 

Hitting the button on my phone to open the line

• frontal lobe: association cortex for associating the sound with the button and the button with the turning on of the phone
• frontal lobe: prefrontal cortex (6) for making a plan to locate my phone
• parietal lobe: association cortex (7) for staying focused on the plan until the phone is found
• occipital lobe: visual cortex (8) for scanning for my phone
• temporal lobe: association cortex for categorizing the visual stimulus of my phone as “phone-like”
• frontal lobe: motor cortex (9) for controlling the muscles in my arms and fingers to pick up the phone and hit the button
• cerebellum (10) for adjusting the pressure with which I grab the phone and push the button on my phone so I don’t break it

 

Greeting my Mom by saying, “Good morning, Mom!”

• frontal lobe: association cortex for associating context with greeting
• cingulate cortex (11) for knowing social-appropriateness
• hippocampus for remembering appropriate greeting of “Good morning, Mom!”
• left temporal lobe: Wernicke’s area (12) for planning the idea of what to say
• arcuate fasciculus (13) for passing the plan over to Broca’s area
• left frontal lobe: Broca’s area (14) for finding the words GOOD and MORNING and MOM, for putting those words into a grammatically correct statement
• frontal lobe: motor cortex for controlling the muscles of the mouth, tongue, and throat to say, “Good morning, Mom!”
• cerebellum for smoothing out the fine motor movements of the muscles of the mouth, tongue, and throat to say, “Good morning, Mom!”

 

Recognizing the voice that says, “Hi! I just wanted to call and see how you were doing.”

• temporal lobe: auditory cortex for processing the sound of Mom’s voice
• temporal lobe: association cortex for categorizing Mom’s voice as a familiar voice
• frontal lobe: association cortex for associating the voice with my Mom

 

Understanding the words, “Hi! I just wanted to call and see how you were doing.”

• corpus callosum (15) for sharing the auditory information of what was said between hemispheres
• left temporal lobe: Wernicke’s area for interpreting the noise as language and making sense of “Hi! I just wanted to call and see how you were doing.”

 

Speaking the words, “Mom, it’s good to hear your voice!”

• left temporal lobe: Wernicke’s area for developing the idea of “Mom, it’s good to hear your voice!”
• arcuate fasciculus for sharing Wernicke’s area plan with Broca’s area
• left frontal lobe: Broca’s area for finding the correct words (“Mom, it’s good to hear your voice!”), planning the grammatical structure and working with the motor cortex
• frontal lobe: motor cortex for controlling the muscles of the mouth, tongue, and throat to say, “Mom, it’s good to hear your voice!”
• cerebellum for smoothing out the fine motor movements of the muscles of the mouth, tongue, and throat to say, “Mom, it’s good to hear your voice!”
• medulla (16) for keeping the heart beating in order to get oxygen around to the muscles that produce the movements

That is her example, my example was

I was sitting at my desk doing homework, the dog started barking. I yelled at him to stop it, then he started to whine. I got up and opened the door and let the dog out.

â—¦ I was typing on my laptop

â—¦ I heard my dog start barking

â—¦ Thought to myself that It has been a while since I let him out

â—¦ Got up out of my chair

â—¦ Walked to the back door

â—¦ Opened  the blinds

â—¦ Let my dog out

I am not sure if this is good enough for minimum 15 brain functions, if not you can change things around. It does not need to be in an APA format, It is just an assignment I have to email her