What's In My Brain?
Lobe responsible for processing visual information from the eyes
What is the occipital lobe?
Rapid Eye Movement
What is REM
Test deigned to predict a person's future performance
What is an aptitude test?
Activated memory that holds a few items briefly, such as 7 digits of a phone number while dialing
What is short-term memory?
Process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges.
What is stress?
Responsible for relaying information from the sensory receptors to proper areas of the brain where it can be processed
What is the Thalamus?
disturbing dream that causes you to wake up feeling anxious and frightened
What is a nightmare?
The process of making tests and their administration equal for all test takers.
What is Standardization?
The conscious repetition of information, either to maintain it in consciousness or to encode it for storage.
Catastrophic events, significant life changes and daily hassles.
What are stress provokers or stressors?
Part of the brain which carries out and regulates life sustaining functions such as breathing, swallowing and heart rate
What is the Medulla?
Long-term neurological disorder that involves a decreased ability to regulate sleep-wake cycles
What is Narcolepsy?
Ability to perceive, understand, manage and use emotions
What is emotional intelligence?
Sense of being in a context similar to one we've been in before, triggering this experience.
What is deja-vú?
A response to stress in which the sympathetic nervous system triggers the release of hormones that prepare the body to fight or flee.
What is the Fight or Flight response?
Responsible for thinking and processing information from the five senses
What is the Cerebral Cortex?
level of consciousness between sleep and wakefulness
What is daydreaming?
Psychologist who identified eight different types of intelligence
Who is Howard Gardner?
memory influenced by one's bodily state at the time of learning and at the time of retrieval
A conflict arising when the same choice has both desirable and undesirable features.
What is Approach-Avoidance Conflict?
The main nerve cell, the basic building block of sending and receiving messages
What is the Reticular Activating System (RAS)?
Device that measures ones Brain wave activity when he/she is sleeping
What is an electroencephalogram?
a total score derived from several standardized tests designed to assess human intelligence
IQ tests
Theory suggesting that the more time we spend learning information, the more we retain it.
What is the Ebbinghaus retaining curve theory?
The predictable sequence of reactions (alarm, resistance, and exhaustion stages) that organisms show in response to stress.
General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)