Neuroanatomy
Learning and Memory
Acronyms and Anxiety
Great Readings
Developing Ideas
100
The brain area in the frontal lobe found to be essential for language production.
What is Broca’s Area?
100
Type of memory involved in remembering our first day of school
What is episodic memory?
100
fMRI
What is functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging?
100
The book which described the variations in the amount of language spoken to children from diverse social backgrounds.
What is Meaningful Differences?
100
Not simply a delay in development, but an actual condition.
What is a “Deficit”?
200
Attention, planning, self-regulation, working memory, and mental shifting are examples of
What are executive functions?
200
Type of memory involved in learning how to ride a bike
What is procedural memory?
200
IQ
What is Intelligence Quotient?
200
The author who wrote... “Imagine you are a small mammal a prairie dog. You come out of your burrow…and you spot a bobcat….You immediately stop all movement. Freezing is evolution’s gift to you. You do it without having to weigh decisions.
Who is Joseph LeDoux?
200
The great proliferation of the connections between neurons which improve the interconnectivity of brain areas.
What is Synaptogenesis?
300
The neuroanatomical navigation term meaning toward the belly.
What is a Ventral?
300
Type of declarative knowledge that allow systems to formulate and understanding facts. Examples include: behaviors and attributes expected of people in particular social positions
What is a Schema?
300
Involved in arousal, emotional, motivation, and reward pathways
What is the limbic system?
300
Ratey presented two mantras in his book, “Neurons that fire together, wire together” and this one.
What is “Use it or Lose it”?
300
The pre-programmed process through which cells travel to different brain regions.
What is migration?
400
That area of the brain that appears to be specialized for automaticity of facial perception and word recognition.
What is the fusiform gyrus?
400
The neurotransmitter most closely associated with the development of the new memories
What is Acetylcholine?
400
Changes in the cingulate gyrus, hippocampus, and in the ____ have been seen during adolescence which influences their response to anxiety
What is the amygdala?
400
Writer who penned the noteworthy passage: “There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those…we spent with a favorite book. Everything that filled them for others, so it seemed, and that we dismissed as a vulgar obstacle to the divine pleasure: the game for which a friend would come to fetch us at the most interesting passage: the troublesome bee or sun ray that foced us to life our eyes form the page or to change position: the provisions for the afternoon snack that he had been made to take along and that we left beside us on the bench without touching, while above our head the sun was diminishing in force the blue sky…”
Who is Proust?
400
Recent studies have found a two fold increase in this fatty substance between the first and second decades of life and another 60% increase between the fourth and the sixth decades.
What is Myelin?
500
The posterior third of the superior temporal gyrus, on the left hemisphere.
What is Wernicke’s Area?
500
Consists of phonological loop, central executive, and visuo-spatial sketchpad
What is short term or working memory?
500
The six basic emotions
What are anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise known as?
500
The developmentally appropriate response to trauma that Schacter said is a “memory sin” because it relates to the intrusion of memories that one does not wish to recall.
What is persistence?
500
Psychoeducational assessment includes only IQ, academic achievement, and social/emotional/behavioral measures. While a neuropsychological assessment additionally includes ___, ____, ____. (Name three)
What are language functioning, attention, executive functioning, sensorimotor functioning, visual spatial/motor/perception, learning and memory assessments?
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