The Brain
This system consists of the brain and the spinal cord.
What is the Central Nervous System?
This type of memory is processed in the hippocampus and has unlimited content capacity.
What is long-term memory?
Damage to this area can result in difficulty speaking and writing
What is Broca's area?
What has to be broken before you use it?
What is an egg?
This consists of spinal nerves that branch from the spinal cord and cranial nerves that branch from the brain
What is the Peripheral Nervous System?
This type of memory, stored in the prefrontal cortex, is limited to about 7 items
What is short-term memory?
This condition involves speaking in long sentences that lack meaning
What is Wernicke's Aphasia?
I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old
What is a candle?
The brain has four of these.
What are the lobes?
This type of memory involves automatically learned skills like riding a bike
What is skill memory?
Your brain has to pay attention and rehearse to move from short-term to long-term memory
What is encoding?
I am taken from a mine, and locked up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost everybody. What am I?
What is a pencil lead?