Neurons & the Nervous System
Neurons that take information about what to move or how to move from the central nervous system to various muscles.
What are motor neurons?
Forgetting to tie your shoes is an error of procedural memory located in this part of the brain.
What is the Cerebellum?
The most common form of color blindness is related to deficiencies in this specific rod/cone.
What is red-green?
Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere.
What is intentional blindness?
When new information makes it difficult to recall previously learned information.
What is retroactive interference?
A neurotransmitter linked to the anticipation of pleasurable or rewarding activities
What is dopamine?
The main area for visual processing and perception.
What is the occipital lobe?
The experience of sensation in which one system of sensation is experienced through another.
What is synesthesia?
Recalling the first or most vivid example that comes to mind
What is an availability heuristic?
A type of amnesia that makes it difficult to create new memories, but older memories stay intact.
What is anterograde amnesia?
The neurotransmitter is the body's natural pain killer and can influence the perception of pain or pleasure.
What are endorphins?
Jamie who is 5 years old suffers from severe epilepsy. Jamie is more likely to receive this procedure due to neural plasticity.
What is Split-Brain procedure?
The clear protective layer covering the pupil and iris
What is the cornea?
How the way information is presented can influence people's decisions.
What is framing?
The process of taking in information and putting it into long-term memory.
The time after a neuron fires an action potential when it's difficult to produce another action potential.
What is a refractory period?
Located in the left hemisphere and is responsible for expressive speech
What is Broca's Area?
Transduction of visual stimuli happens in this part of the eye.
What is the retina?
Includes critical thinking, self regulation, and decision making skills
What is executive functions?
What is maintenance rehearsal?
Types of neural signals that arrive at the brain.
What is an afferent signal?
Inside of your brain stem, this part of the brain is a network of nerve fibers involved with attention, arousal, and alertness.
What is the Reticular Activating System
Transparent structure behind the pupil that changes shape to help focus on images.
What is the lens?
A railroad construction worker who had an iron rod pierce his skull and changed his personality and decision making.
Who is Phineas Gage?
This study concluded their is rapid loss of recall in the first hour of memorization followed by slightly slower loss.
What is Ebbinghaus's Forgetting Curve?