Psychology & The Brain
What organ is the main focus of psychology because it controls thoughts, feelings, and behavior?
What is the Brain?
This part of the brain connects the brain to the spinal cord.
What is the Brain Stem?
The neuron's life support.
What is a Soma?
Which lobe processes sensory information like touch, temperature, and pain?
An average adult human brain weighs about....
What is 3 pounds?
Psychology focuses on how the brain influences....
What is behavior? (Mental Process and Feelings)
This structure automatically controls breathing and heartbeat.
What is the Medulla Oblongata?
Neurotransmitter that influences movement, learning, attention and emotions
What is Dopamine?
Within the brain's temporal lobe and part of the limbic system, is the primary center for processing fear, aggression, and emotional memories.
What is the Amygdala?
Percentage of water that makes up your brain.
What is 75 percent?
Which part of the brain is responsible for problem-solving?
What is the Frontal Lobe?
The pair of lobes at the very back of the cerebral cortex responsible for processing vision.
What are the Occipital Lobes?
Neurotransmitter that affects mood, hunger, and sleep.
What is Serotonin?
Located in the medial temporal lobe, is the brain structure central to learning and the formation of new explicit long-term memories.
What is the Hippocampus?
The brain undergoing a crucial, highly specific process that eliminates unused or weak neural connections to increase efficiency during adolescence.
What is Synaptic Pruning?
This famous case study showed how brain injury can change personality. (Hint: Iron Rod)
What the Case Study of Phineas Gage?
The outermost layer of gray matter in the brain responsible for higher-level functions like thinking, planning, memory, and reasoning
What is the Cerebral Cortex?
The body's slow chemical communication; a set of glands that secret hormones into the bloodstream.
What is the Endocrine System?
Often called the "master gland", it controls essential body functions, including growth, metabolism, and stress responses by regulating other endocrine glands.
What is the Pituitary Gland?
Specialized brain cells that fire both when an individual performs a specific action and when they observe another person performing the same action.
What are Mirror Neurons?
The detailed study of the skull or brain as a supposed indication of character and mental abilities.
What is Phrenology?
The brain region responsible for controlling body temperature, hunger, circadian rhythms, the endocrine system, and reward pathways
What is the Hypothalamus?
Chemical messengers used by the nervous system to transmit signals between neurons, or from neurons to muscles and glands
What are Neurotransmitters?
Lobes that controls comprehension of speech, processing auditory information, and understanding of language/speech.
What is are the Temporal Lobes?
The brain's lifelong, dynamic ability to reorganize its structure and function by forming new neural connections in response to learning, experience, and injury recovery.
What is Neuroplasticity.