Brain Injury
the region on the brain damaged if a person has trouble speaking fluently and clearly
What is Brocca's Area?
The left and right divisions of the brain.
What are brain hemispheres?
The process of removing unnecessary connections between neurons
What is pruning?
The variable that is manipulated.
What is the independent variable?
These are the knoblike structures at the far end of the axon.
What are axon terminals?
The human brain contains roughly 86 billion nerve cells (AKA neurons). What are the parts of a neuron?
Dendrites, cell body, axon, myelin, & axon terminals.
The frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital.
What are the four lobes of the brain?
The growth of new dendrites to create new neural connections
What is sprouting?
A testable statement that is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon.
What is a hypothesis?
Sends signals from the brain and spinal cord to the muscles and parts of the body.
What are motor neurons?
CTE stands for
What is a chronic traumatic encephalophy?
How the hemispheres communicate with each other.
What is the corpus collosum?
The relatively permanent strengthening of a neural pathway through experience.
What is long term potentiation?
When there is a relationship between 2 variables.
What is correlation?
the branch of the nervous system that receives and responds to information
What is the CNS?
NOT a main goal of psychology.
What is anything except explain, describe, control, or predict.
The brain part associated with anger and aggression.
What is the amygdala?
The process most likely to occur in the brain after an injury
rerouting
A sugar pill that the person taking it thinks is the real thing.
What is a placebo?
The two parts of the autonomic nervous system.
What are the sympathetic and the parasympathetic systems?
The word "psychology" originates from Greek roots meaning study of the psyche, or _____.
What is the soul?
Part of the brain allowing you to see.
What is the occipital lobe?
Provide 3 things that can help keep the brain healthy
What are mental stimulation, diet and exercise (physical activity)
When a participant/patient receives a sugar pill, but experiences improvement in the area of the study.
What is the placebo effect?
Sent between neurons to transfer a message.
What is a neurotransmitter?