Role of the Brain
This early method of studying the brain involved detailed observations of individuals like Phineas Gage.
What are case studies?
This Vygotskian concept refers to temporary support provided to help a child learn a new skill.
What is scaffolding?
This variable is deliberately manipulated by the experimenter.
What is the independent variable?
This sleep stage is the lightest and marks the transition from wakefulness to sleep.
What is Stage 1 sleep?
This concept is the St John's theme for this year.
What is Word of God?
This neuroimaging technique measures electrical activity in the brain using electrodes on the scalp.
What is an EEG
This term describes the brain’s ability to change due to learning and experience in adulthood.
What is adaptive plasticity?
This term refers to the entire group a researcher wants to draw conclusions about.
What is the population?
This form of attention allows a person to focus on one stimulus while ignoring others.
What is selective attention?
This house won the St John's 2026 Swim Carnival.
What is Melaleuca?
This part of the brain contains the cerebral cortex.
What is the forebrain?
This brain development process, occurring in infancy, involves neurons moving to their final location.
What is migration?
This sampling method divides the population into categories and selects participants proportionally.
What is stratified sampling?
This stage of sleep takes up 20-25% of typical sleep.
What is REM sleep?
This new staff member shares a last name with another teacher at St John's.
Who is Ms Corboy?
This pseudoscience claimed that bumps on the skull reflected personality traits.
What is phrenology?
This attachment style is characterised by distress when the caregiver leaves and joy upon return.
What is secure attachment?
This type of variable can unintentionally influence the dependent variable and must be controlled.
What is an extraneous variable?
This theory suggests sleep evolved to conserve energy and avoid predators.
What is the evolutionary theory of sleep?
This outdoor team game was played by Year 7 and 11 students on their 2026 buddy afternoon.
What is dodgeball?
This language‑related region, located in the temporal lobe, is responsible for comprehension.
What is Wernicke’s area?
According to Piaget, this stage (ages 2–7) involves symbolic thinking and overcoming egocentrism.
What is the preoperational stage?
This statistical test is used when data are NOT normally distributed and the design is repeated‑measures.
What is the Wilcoxon-Signed Rank Test?
This psychological effect of sleep deprivation involves irrational thoughts and poor decision‑making.
What are cognitive difficulties?
This significant period of time on the catholic calendar was started at St John's with an interpretative dance at a special assembly.
What is Lent?