The process of getting information out of memory (also what hunting dogs do when asked to "fetch")
What is retrieval?
100
Mnemonic devices
What are techniques to help your brain recall important information?
100
The parietal lobe of the brain is concerned with this sense and can be "tested" by touching either one or two plastic pointers to a person's forearm to determine if the subject feels one or two pressure points.
What is the sense of touch?
100
The brain is divided into these two regions by the callus callosum
What are hemispheres?
200
This kind of memory is stored only for an instant and although the capacity of this kind of memory is very large the information is unprocessed.
What is sensory memory?
200
Things like rehearsing and practicing over and over, recalling moods, or recalling events while they are fresh in your mind.
What retrieval cues or stimuli that help you remember?
200
The building with many rooms a person creates using the"method of loci" to remember. (Patrick Jane, a character on the TV show "The Mentalist", uses this method to solve crimes.)
What is a memory palace?
200
The oddly shaped (big hands, lips and tongue) little man called a homunculus model shows this.
What areas of the body that have the most touch buttons?
200
The skull or cranium does this job.
What is protects the brain from injury
300
You will see a circle rather than the individual points through which the flashlight moves..
What do you see if a flashlight moves quickly in a circle inside a dark room?
300
This organ is shaped like a seahorse and if damaged can cause memory loss.
What is the hippocampus?
300
"SWAT" (Special Weapons and Tactics) is an example of this method of memory that uses the first letter in a name or phrase to make a word.
What is an acronym?
300
Little raised bumps on the tongue.
What are taste buttons (or buds)?
300
The film "Awakenings", based on a book by Oliver Sachs, dealt with this mysterious illness.
What is Sleeping Sickness?
400
This kind of sensory memory is called "iconic" memory.
What is visual sensory memory?
400
This kind of sensory memory is called "echoic" memory.
What is auditory sensory memory?
400
"EGBDF" (Every Good Boy Does Fine) is an example of the mnemonic device that uses the first letter of each line from the word or phrase.
What is an acrostic?
400
Very sensitive taste buds at the back of the tongue that recognize things that taste bitter.
What protects us from swallowing poisonous substances or spoiled food?
400
Dr. Oliver Sachs wrote this book about agnosia, the loss of the ability to recognize objects.
What is "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for A Hat"?
500
Agents K and J used a neuralyzer to do this.
What is wipe away a person's memory of an event?
500
A condition where a person is not able to remember anything.
What is amnesia?
500
This memory device is a saying that has similar sounds at the end of each line. (Red sky at night, sailor's delight...)
What are rhymes?
500
This is a myth about our tongue.
Can the tongue actually sense sweet, sour or salty tastes on only certain areas?
500
Sometimes called the "reptilian" part of the brain because of basic functions controlled by this area