Spinal Tap
The main road connecting your brain to the rest of your body, carrying signals for movement and feeling.
What is the Spinal Cord?
The big wrinkly part of your brain that is the brain's control center for thinking, moving and feeling. It is divided into two hemispheres.
What is the Cerebrum?
This person believes intelligence and abilities are fixed and determined at birth.
What is a fixed mind set?
This is the brain's capacity to change and adapt throughout life, reorganizing its structure and function in response to experiences, learning, and even injury. It involves the formation of new neural connections and the strengthening of existing ones.
What is neuroplasticity?
This is the part of the brain that receives messages from your senses (like seeing, hearing, touch)and sends them to the right place in the brain for you to understand.
What is the thalamus?
The continuation of the spinal cord within the skull, forming the lowest part of the brainstem and contains control centers for the heart and lungs.
What is the Medulla Oblongata?
This is the back of the brain. It is located at the back of the head. Its function is to coordinate voluntary muscle movements. It also maintains posture, balance, and equilibrium.
What is the cerebellum?
This person believes that people who work hard and put forth effort can be good at something.
What is a growth mind set?
Most mammals including sheep are this.
What is a quadruped?
The name for the branching, white matter tracts in the cerebellum that look like a tree when you see them in a cross section.
What is the Arbor Vitae?
Part of the brainstem, a structure that links your brain to your spinal cord. It handles unconscious processes and jobs (sleep-wake cycle and breathing).
What is the Pons?
This is an almond-shaped part of nerve tissue located in the brain's temporal lobes. It is part of the limbic system, which is involved in managing emotions, survival instincts, and memory. It is also known as the Lizard Brain.
What is the Amygdala?
If you avoid challenges because they are difficult and not worth the effort you have this type of mindset.
Wht is a fixed mindset?
The part of the brain which stores short-term memories.
What is the cerebral cortex?
This part of the brain holds the secrets to our mind's intricate dance of thought motion and memory. The wrinkles and folds located in the cerebellum.
What is Folia?
The top most part of the brainstem, the connection central between the brain and the spinal cord.
What is the Midbrain?
A part of your brain that's responsible for your memory and learning. This small structure helps you remember, both short- and long-term memories, and gain awareness from your environment.
What is the hippocampus?
A person who tends to persevere and grow when faced with obstacles and frustration.
What is a growth mindset?
The functions of this part of the brain control personality and predicting outcomes.
What is the frontal lobe?
A big thick bridge made of nerve fibers that connects to the left side and right side of your brain.
What is the Corpus Callosum?
This is the base of your brain, connecting it to your spinal cord. It's made up of three parts: the midbrain, pons, and medulla.
What is the Brain Stem?
The decision-making part of the brain. It's responsible for your ability to plan and think about the consequences of actions, solve problems and control impulses. Changes in this part of the brain continue into early adulthood.
What is the Prefrontal Cortex?
A person who wants to be complimented on the end result has this type of mindset.
What is a fixed mindset?
The cerebrum is divided into 4 lobes.
What are the frontal, parietal, temporal and occipital?
These are the folds and grooves in the cerebrum.
What are the Gyrus and Sulcus?