Brain Anatomy
Psychology
Diseases and Disorders
Learning & Memory
Random
100
This major area of the brain is responsible for sound interpretation, memory retrieval, and language processing.
What is the temporal lobe?
100
This form of conditioning involved using a dog.
What is classical conditioning?
100
This disease occurs when motor neurons in the CNS die.
What is ALS?
100
This memory happens in one exposure, is autobiographical, and has spatial and temporal context.
What is episodic memory?
100
This system includes the brain and spinal cord.
What is the central nervous system?
200
This almond-shaped structure is responsible for processing sensory information for emotional significance.
What is the amygdala?
200
We practice this when we interpret our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas.
What is assimilation?
200
This a brain injury caused by crashes, battlefield injuries, and/or sport injuries.
What is a Traumatic Brin Injury?
200
This man had epilepsy and received a bilateral medial temporal lobectomy. He is the reason we know about the hippocampus's role in forming long-term memories.
Who is Henry Molaison?
200
This cell type will form myelin in the CNS.
What is an oligodendrocyte?
300
This is the major tract that connects the two hemispheres.
What is the corpus callosum?
300
In psychology, this is something that brings a pleasant consequence, leading to desired behavior being increased.
What is a reinforcer/ reinforcement?
300
This an autoimmune disorder that attacks myelin in the CNS.
What is multiple sclerosis?
300
This type of memory can be declarative or non-declarative.
What is long-term memory?
300
This tool is used for revealing bloodflow and, therefore, brain activity by comparing successive MRI scans.
What is a fMRI?
400
This is the name of a bundle of axons in the PNS.
What are nerves?
400
The tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's prior beliefs.
What is confirmation bias?
400
This type of brain bleed occurs when blood doesn't clot.
What is a hemorrhage?
400
This type of learning requires conscious effort and includes things like learning.
What is explicit learning?
400
The body's slow chemical communication system; a set of glands that secrete hormones into the bloodstream.
What is the endocrine system?
500
This brain structure is one of the few brain structures that generates new neurons even in adults. It is found in the forebrain and transmits information to the amygdala.
What is the Olfactory Bulb?
500
This is the box used in operant conditioning.
What is the Skinner box?
500
This disease occurs when dopaminergic cells die beginning with cells in the substantia nigra.
What is Parkinson's disease?
500
This is the physical substrate of a memory.
What is an engram?
500
This period occurs when a neuron can not send anymore action potentials.
What is the refractory period?