Anatomy
Which lobe of the brain is the primary visual processing center?
Occipital Lobe
What is the process of detecting information from your eyes, ears, nose, tongue, or skin?
Sensation
How much of the brain do we use?
All of it!
Which branch of Neuroscience seeks to understand brain circuitry and mechanisms that shape our behavior?
Behavioral Neuroscience
Someone calls your name from across the room. Which brain lobe helps you hear and recognize the sound?
Temporal Lobe
What is your brain’s ability to organize and interpret sensory information called?
Perception
What is the process called where your brain has to put pieces together and sometimes has to fill in gaps?
Memory reconstruction
Who is considered the father of Black Psychology?
Francis Cecil Sumner
You see a basketball coming toward you and quickly reach out to catch it. Which two brain lobes are involved in this process?
Occipital Lobe and Frontal Lobe
What is it called when you focus on one thing and tune other things out?
Selective attention
What is chronic stress?
When stress piles up for someone across time and can be harmful to our physical and mental health -- imagine a car that keeps going without filling up its gas tank or changing its oil!
What type of psychologist would sit down with a patient and diagnose mental issues?
Clinical Psychologist
You are about to send an angry text, but you stop, think, and choose a better response. Which lobe helped control that decision?
Frontal Lobe
What is a stimulus?
Something you can sense
Imagine you switch back and forth between doing your homework and watching TV. What is the extra time and increase in mistakes caused by changing tasks called?
Switching costs
Developmental Psychologist