Brain Matter
It's responsible for executive functioning and decision making.
What is your frontal lobe?
These type of neurons allow you to feel senses.
What are sensory neurons?
This is the main body of a neuron.
What is the soma?
Pavlov demonstrated this response through experiments with his dog.
What is classical conditioning?
He survived a rod being blown through his head.
Who was Phineas Gage?
It helps with balance and coordination.
What is the cerebellum?
Nerves emanate out from this main communication highway in the body.
What is the spinal cord?
These receive messages from other neurons.
This approach attempts to modify behavior and/or responses.
What is operant conditioning?
This brain surgery did more harm than good in the 1940's and 50's.
What is a lobotomy?
This lobe helps with language and memory.
What is the temporal lobe?
This portion of your brain is critical in the fear response of humans.
What is the amygdala?
Neurons pass on messages to other neurons through this long strand.
What is an axon?
John Watson presented this toy to the baby in the infamous Little Albert experiment.
What is a toy rabbit?
You hit this moment when you get sleepy in the middle of the day.
What is your circadian trough?
This lobe helps to translate sensory experiences and your spatial awareness.
What is the parietal lobe?
This response causes your body to ramp up for a fight or flight moment.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
The gap between the base of an axon and another neuron's dendrites.
What is the synapse?
Blank slate in Latin
What is tabula rasa?
An fMRI measures this in your brain to determine activity.
What is your blood oxygen level?
This portion of your brain helps with short-term memory making.
What is the hippocampus?
This response causes your body to relax from a highly agitated state.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
This provides insulation for the axon of a neuron.
What is myelination?
What does the pneumonic trick of SPA help you to remember?
What is the order of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle?
This defines all of your experiences and how they help you to make meaning in this world.
What is schema?