True or False: Odor molecules reach your cilia in your nose, which triggers neurons and that is how you smell.
True
100
What is the somatic sensory system responsible for?
Your sense of touch
100
Why do we have optical illusions?
Because our brain is trying to make sense of the information it is seeing - using fast thinking. ALSO Our perceptions depend on how our visual system responds to what we see and then how our brain interprets that information
100
What is the frontal lobe responsible for?
decision making, problem solving, control over your behaviors, memory, emotions
200
What is the first step of the scientific process?
Asking a question
200
What does olfactory refer to?
Your sense of smell or your nose
200
The "headband" across your brain is responsible for what?
All the different areas of the body that can feel touch
200
What purpose do the lens serve?
Helps us focus on things up close or far away
200
What are the temporal lobes responsible for?
hearing, language and speech production, memory association and formation
300
What do you do if your experiment is not working?
Retest! or change a variable in your experiment
300
What does olfactory fatigue mean?
Literally our sense of smell getting "tired"
300
What do the malleus (hammer), incus (anvil), and stapes (stirrup) do?
They vibrate when sound waves reach them, causing you to perceive a sound.
300
What do pupils do in the dark?
They become larger to let in more light.
300
Which sense would you lose if your parietal lobe was damaged?
Touch
400
When can you analyze data and draw conclusions?
When you have already tested your experiment
400
How many taste buds does the average person have?
Between 5,000 and 10,000
400
What causes the eardrum to vibrate?
Sound waves reaching the ear?
400
What happens if you scratch your cornea?
it hurts because it is the protective surface of the eye
400
Which lobe helps you with visual processing and color recognition?
Occipital lobe
500
True or False: The hypothesis you create is always correct.
False
500
What do tastants do?
Tastants are chemicals in food that get detected by the taste buds - this helps you taste
500
What are the semicircular canals responsible for?
Balance!
500
True or False: Your eye sees things upside down and then your brain flips it.
True
500
what does the cerebellum do?
Regulates movements – like balance, posture, speech, and coordination