Brain parts
Area that processes a variety auditory information, including music, tones, noises, speech (only on one side)
What are the Temporal Lobes
Sudden uncontrolled burst of electrical activity in the brain.
What is a Seizure?
"Branches" of the neuron that receive electrical signals from other neurons
What are Dendrites?
Neurotransmitter that inhibits pain signals
What are Endorphins?
Brain's ability to learn, grow, adapt and form new connections.
What is neuroplasticity?
The oldest part of the brain that controls basic life functions
What is the brain stem (including the pons, medulla, and reticular formation)?
Brain injury with numbness or weakness on one side of face or limbs, that can result in lack of blood to a region
What is a Stroke, causing a lesion?
The location for the deposit of neurotransmitters (also the intersection between neurons)
What is the Synapse or Synaptic Cleft
The hormone adrenaline is most similar to this neurotransmitter--stimulates Fight or Flight --is a catecholamine
What is epinephrine? (Norepinephrine has-more acute effects--but also acceptable.)
An important study on neuroplasticity that demonstrated a change in the hippocampus in people who studied a certain spatial map
What is the London taxi-driver study?
Amygdala
The region or center of the brain that is responsible for emotions and the creation of new memories
What is the Limbic system comprised of the hippocampus and amygdala?
The main function of neurons
What is to allow the flow of communication for senses, thoughts, and actions?
Antidepressants known as SSRIs involve which neurotransmitter?
What is serotonin?
Example study that illustrates neuroplasticity
(variable answers) What is taxi driver study, juggling study or phantom limb example, even language aphasias or split brain can show how other areas of the brain compensate?
What are the major functions of the frontal lobe?
decision-making, executive functioning, problem solving, language production
The reason why the story of Phineas Gage is so important to the study of psychology.
What is Gage's frontal lobe brain injury and the subsequent changes in his decision-making and personality inspired the scientific study of lesions to the brain to understand its functions
The name of the chemicals that are communicated between neurons
What are Neurotransmitters--e.g., dopamine, seratonin, GABA, AcH?
Neurotransmitter responsible for muscle contractions and long-term memory
What is acetylcholine or AcH?
Name of two types of mindsets: e.g., either you assume you are born with certain intelligence that cannot improve OR you can always get smarter and learn new skills
What is fixed mindset and growth mindset?
Trying to memorize and navigate a maze uses this part of the brain
Hippocampus
The location and names of two areas for language production and comprehension
What is the left fronto-temporal area, for Brocas (production) and the temporo-parietal area, for Wernicke's (comprehension)
The location in the neuron where the electro-chemical signal called the action potential first occurs
What is the Axon?
The result of too much GABA
What are relaxation, sedation, sleep/paralysis? ?
Top reasons we can't trust brain scans
What are poor spatial or temporal resolution, not measuring brain activity directly, data processing bias, statistical overinterpretation, variability, and technical flaws?