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Tendency to solve problems using the procedures that worked before.
The part of the brain responsible for processing emotional memories.
What is the Amygdala?
The part of the neuron which receives (intakes) information.
What are dendrites?
A step-by-step way to solve a problem - though it might take a while.
What is an algorithm?
The name of groupings of ideas, memories, or images?
What are concepts?
The words of a given language.
What is lexicon?
The inability to see an object having uses other than what it was designed to be used for.
What is functional fixedness?
The lobe of the brain that is responsible for higher-level cognitive functioning.
What is the frontal lobe?
The abiliity to create new ideas or solutions.
What is creativity?
Damage to the ________ disrupts one's ability to comprehend language, but leaves one's ability to produce language intact. In which lobe of the brain is this area located?
A doctor using his years of medical school knowledge to diagnose a famiiar condition. This is an example of what kind of intelligence, crystallized or fluid?
What is crystallized intelligence?
The theory that each generation has a higher IQ than the last.
What is the Flynn Effect?
The body system responsible for glands and hormones.
What is the endocrine system?
This is the portion of the brain that controls breathing and alertness.
What the brainstem (or medulla)?
When anticipate how you will behavior when entering a doctor's office. For example, when you enter the building you will sign in with the person behind the desk, you will wait until your name is called, once it is called you'll go back to a space where a health care professional will take your vitals, etc. This is due to the idea of having a _____.
What is an event schema (or a script)?
The ability to understand one's own feelings as well as the feeings of others.
Things that we learn as we grow?
What is nurture?
The part of a neuron that acts as insulation to allow messages to travel quickly.
What is the myelin sheath?
Pat slipped and fell and has had difficulty seeing since the event. It's likely that he damaged this lobe of his brain.
What is the occipital lobe?
A well-established and well-read doctor encounters an unusual set of symptoms she has never seen before and reasons through the possibiities to reach a diagnosis. What type of intelligence is she demonstrating?
What is fluid intelligence?
The basic sound unit of a language.
What is a phoneme?
The part of the brain which allows you to continue to learn procedures and processes even if damage prevents you from processing explicit memories. Also called the "little brain."
What is the cerebellum?
The brain & spinal cord are part of the ____ nervous system and the nerves are part of the _____ nervous system.
What are central and peripheral?
The two divisions of the Autonomic Nervous System are and their functions include...
What is the Sympathetic (fight or flight) AND the Parasympathetic (rest or digest)?
He is considered the father of psychology.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?