The Cerebral Cortex
Phineas Gage suffered a change in personality after he recieved an injury to his brain. What area of the brain was injured?
The frontal lobe
What three components make up an attitude?
Affect, behaviour, cognition
What does ABI stand for?
Acquired brain injury
What does LTP stand for?
Long term potentiation
What city is hosting the 2028 summer Olympics?
Los Angeles
What cortex is located in the Parietal lobe?
Primary somatosensory cortex
Assuming someone is late because they have poor time management is an example of what?
Personal attribution
What are two potential causes of an ABI?
physical injury or trauma, such as an impact to the head from a fall, a fight or a sporting accident
Disease or infection, such as meningitis, Parkinson’s disease or Alzheimer’s disease
Oxygen deprivation to the whole body or brain, such as through a near drowning, heart attack or stroke
Poisoning or alcohol/drug abuse
Brain tumours.
What is neuralplasticity?
The ability of the brain’s neural structure or function to be changed throughout the lifespan, generally through experience.
What is the furthest planet from the sun?
Recognizing faces and music is the role of what lobe?
Temporal lobe
"the discomfort that people experience when they have conflicting beliefs or when their behaviours contradict their beliefs" describes?
Cognitive dissonance
What does CTE stand for?
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
When is neuroplasticity most active?
During childhood
Name all 5 Kardashian sisters.
Kourtney, Kim, Khloe, Kylie and Kendall.
Which area is responsible for speech production?
Broca's area
Kelly nearly gets into an accident riding her bike down a busy road and gets scared. The next time she rides her bike, she takes a different way home. What kind of heuristic is Kelly using?
Affect heuristic
A person can speak fluently, but it does not make sense. For example, 'The dog orange limbo ran'. What is this an example of?
Wernicke's aphasia
What are the three processes that maintain and maximise brain function?
1. diet
2. physical activity
3. mental stimulation
What is the smallest country in the world?
Vatican City
Seeing a bird in your left side peripheral vision.
Name the lobe, cortex and hemisphere that would be responsible for this behaviour.
Occipital lobe
Primary Visual Cortex
Right side
In a company survey, 42% of the employees predicted that they would be in the top 5%. What cognitive bias were they using?
Dunning-Kruger effect
Explain the process of how CTE impacts the brain.
Tau protein builds up within neurons and other cells in the brain, disrupting important processes that keep cells alive and healthy.
The accumulation of tau compromises the integrity of the brain tissue and begins to kill neurons and other cells, resulting in widespread atrophy of many parts of the brain and a reduction in brain volume.
What are the three types of neuroplasticity?
1. Experience-independent
2. Experience-expectant
3. Experience-dependent
What is Miss Sullivan's favourite colour?
Blue?