About the Brain
Misc. Trivia
Vision
Memory
Language
100
This organ weighs approximately 3 pounds and reaches its full size at about age 6.
What is the brain?
100
This man beat a computer at a game of chess.
Who is Garry Kasparov?
100
This famous movie was used as an example of our eyeheight and how it can change the perception of size.
What is Terminator?
100
This part of the memory can only hold about 7 pieces of information.
What is short term memory?
100
This language is spoken in the most countries.
What is English?
200
This fluid surrounds the brain in order to protect it.
What is cerebrospinal fluid?
200
This device can determine what word we are thinking about.
What is a functional MRI?
200
This famous painting was used to explain texture gradient, the fact that there is more detail at forefront of picture and less at the back of picture.
What is The Gleaners?
200
This is the term used to describe our short term visual memory - when we see something it burns an image in our mind for just about a second.
What is iconic memory?
200
These are the two areas of the brain that are most responsible for speech and language.
What is Broca's and Wernicke's area?
300
This organ uses 20% of our blood flow and 20% of our oxygen supply, but is only 2% of our body's total weight
What is the brain?
300
This country had young deaf children who created their very own language
What is Nicaragua
300
The term used to explain that our right and left eye perceive an object in different spots.
What is retinal disparity?
300
This is the term for Later learning interferes with the previous learning
What is retroactive interference?
300
This is a way of teaching communication with babies at a young age, before speech skills can develop.
What is baby sign language?
400
This lobe is Concerned with reasoning, planning, parts of speech and movement (motor cortex), emotions, and problem-solving.
What is frontal lobe?
400
This is a fancy word for butterflies in the stomach.
What is collywobbles?
400
This part of the eye refracts the light and accounts for approximately two-third's of the eye's total optical power.
What is the cornea?
400
This is the term for the gradual loss of primary memory.
What is decay?
400
This is the term used to describe the changing vowel sounds in the areas arounds the Great Lake Region.
What is vowel shift?
500
This lobe is concerned with perception and recognition of auditory stimuli (hearing) and memory (hippocampus).
What is the temporal lobe?
500
This is a term that was coined in 1945 to mean a guy who is popular with the girls.
What is BTO - big time operator.
500
This is the clear "gel" that fills the space betwen the lens and the retina of the eyball.
What is the vitreous humor?
500
Remembering what your day was like on 9/11/01 is an example of this term.
What is flashbulb memory?
500
This is one of the words that was coined by George W. Bush.
What is embetterment or misunderestimate?
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