The Brain
The ability of the brain to change, grow, and reorganize after damage.
What is plasticity?
According to the Big Five trait dimensions, the O stands for this.
What is openness?
This sleep disorder involves repeated, uncontrollable "sleep attacks" during the day.
What is narcolepsy?
The "Father" of Classical Conditioning.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
This is the state of awareness of yourself and your environment.
What is consciousness?
This part of the brain controls basic life functions like breathing and heartbeat.
What is the brain stem?
According to the DISC personality assessment, this animal is seen as compliant, analytical, self-disciplined, organized, and occasionally moody.
What is beaver?
The first Pixar movie to be created and released in theaters.
What is Toy Story?
Using a spanking to curb behavior is known as _______________ in operant conditioning.
What is positive punishment?
This is the term for your body’s internal clock that regulates sleep/wake cycles.
What is circadian rhythm?
This brain system is strongly tied to emotion and motivation.
What is the limbic system?
A series of abstract pictures designed to reveal a person's unconscious thoughts, motives, and desires.
What is the Rorschach Inkblot test?
In Disney's Cinderella, these are the names of Cinderella's two stepsisters.
Who are Anastasia and Drizella?
Sara is given $5 every time she finishes a chapter book. What strategy is being used to encourage her to read more books?
What is positive reinforcement?
This effect explains why people remember the first and last items in a list best.
What is serial position effect?
This famous case involved a man whose personality changed after a frontal-lobe injury from a railroad spike.
Who is Phineas Gage?
The T stands for this as part of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator results, reflecting how you handle new situations.
The year that Facebook launched.
What is 2004?
B. F. Skinner believed that most behaviors could be __________ through punishments and rewards.
What is shaped?
A memory tool that uses acronyms, rhymes, or other catchy phrases, like ROY G. BIV, to make information easier to remember.
What is a mnemonic device?
This structure connects the left and right hemispheres.
What is the corpus callosum?
According to the Big Five personality traits, the N stands for this.
What is neuroticism?
The first material used to cover baseballs.
What is cowhide?
Being rewarded with a shooting star while watching the night sky during a meteor shower, is an example of a ___________ reinforcement schedule.
What is a variable-interval schedule?
This part of the memory process helps to convert new information into a mental file that can be stored.
What is encoding?