About the Brain
This organ weighs approximately 3.5 pounds has no moving parts
What is the brain?
Neurons communicate with each other via these
electrical events
What are ‘action potentials’?
Lobe of the brain the processes visual information for color, shape and motion perception.
What is the Occipital Lobe?
This is known as the gateway to all other cognitions.
What is perception?
Cognitive psychologist who said that language is a part of inborn biological programming.
Who is Chomsky?
This hemisphere of the cerebrum that controls the movements of the right side of the body.
What is left hemisphere?
This is the communication channel between the brain and the body.
What is the spinal cord?
This delusion results from the severing of the link between the emotional center of the brain in the amygdala and the visual centers of the brain.
What is Capgras?
In the 19th century, anatomists applied these stains to brain tissue which allowed us to better oserve the shape of the neuron.
What are Golgi stains?
B.F. Skinner used a Skinner Box to demonstrate this concept.
What is Operant Conditioning?
Small gap between the end of a neuron’s axon and the dendrites or cell body of another neuron.
What is a synapse?
Part of the brain that coordinates balance and posture
What is the cerebellum?
These system is composed of the brain and spinal cord
What is the central nervous system?
Cells in the nervous system that support, nourish, and protect neurons.
What are Glial cells?
Carried out the Little Albert experiment in 1920
Who is John Watson?
There are 86 billion of these in the human brain.
What are neurons?
Lobe that prcesses sensory information, such as touch and spatial perception.
What is the parietal lobe?
This area of the brain has the specific function of processing higher order visual information, particularly faces
What is the fusiform gyrus or fusiform face area?
Term referring to the brain's ability to change
What is plasticity?
This cognitive psychologist was among the first to measure reaction time to estimate how long a cognitive process takes.
Who is Donders?
Chemical substance/ a signaling
molecule secreted by a neuron to affect another cell
across a synapse.
What is a neurotransmitter?
This is the wrinkled surface of the brain that contains a layer of neurons.
What is the cerebral cortex?
This region of the brain is geared towards processing internal and external stuctures and scenes.
What is the parahippocampal place area?
Refers to processing that involves information coming from our experience and pre-existing knowledge.
What is top-down processing?
Location of Wundt's first psychology lab in 1879
What is Leipzig, Germany?