Parts of the Brain
It is responsible for visual perception
What is a function of the occipital lobe?
It assists with a speedy delivery of the nerve impulse
What is a myelin sheath?
Both are branches of the Central Nervous System.
What are the brain and spinal cord?
This person had a tamping iron impale his skull and frontal lobe.
Who is Phineas Gage?
Movements relating to large muscles such as legs and arms
What are gross motor skills?
It is the first stage of neuroplasticity.
What is proliferation?
It is the association area at the front of the parietal lobe.
What is the primary sensory cortex?
The fibre that carries information away from the cell body of the neuron
What is an axon?
A major division of the nervous system consisting of all the nerves outside the CNS
What is the peripheral nervous system?
The part of the brain that is severed in a split brain study.
What is the corpus callosum?
An example of this area of development at this age is rolling over
What is an example of gross motor skill development at infancy?
The death of certain neurons and the retraction of axons that make connections which are useful.
What is synaptic pruning?
The part of the brain that contains the thalamus and hypothalamus
What is the forebrain?
A chemical that crosses the synapse from the pre-synaptic neuron and attaches to the receptor sites on the post-synaptic neuron.
What is a neurotransmitter?
An effect of this part of the nervous system being activated is pupils constricting.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
The type of research that used to be done by Freeman.
What is a lobotomy?
An example is using pronouns.
It plays a role in emotion.
What is the amygdala?
The part of the brain that controls functions such as heart rate, breathing, digestion and swallowing
What is the medulla?
An impulse within a neuron.
What is an action potential?
An effect of this part of the nervous system is moving skeletal muscles
What is the somatic nervous system?
A brain neuroimaging technique that takes clear X-rays of the brain at different angles to produce a computer-enhanced 2D image of a cross section of the brain.
What is a CAT scan?
Also accept: What is a CT scan?
Complexities of relationships with peers, family members, and romantic partners navigated
What is an example of social and emotional development in adolescence?
It is the last area of the brain to fully develop.
Hint: Be specific
What is the pre-frontal cortex?
The language centre located in the left hemisphere of the temporal lobe.
What is Wernicke's area?
A cell that carries motor impulses from the CNS to specific effectors
What is a motor neuron?
Also accept: What is an efferent neuron?
An effect of this part of the nervous system being activated is relaxing the bladder.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
The researcher whose research supports the notion of hemispheric specialisations.
It is a gross motor skill development specific which occurs at older age
When does balance decline?
The first researcher to find scientific evidence of anatomical neuroplasticity (both names needed)
Who is Marian Diamond?