Experiment Basics
Neuroplasticity
Learning
Sensation and Perception
Brain Organization
100

A systematic and dynamic procedure of observing and measuring phenomena


What is the scientific method

100

Growth of new neurons 

What is neurogenesis

100

A stimulus that has not been paired with the unconditioned stimulus and elicits no response


What is a neutral stimulus

100

The detection of physical stimuli and transmission of that information to the brain

What is sensation

100

Lobe where taste is perceived


What is the frontal lobe

200

A descriptive research method that involves the intensive examination of an unusual person or organization


What is a case study

200

During development, there are certain times when the brain is particularly sensitive to environmental stimuli


What are critical periods

200

The reappearance of a weakened conditioned response after a pause       


What is spontaneous recovery

200

For humans, this is second to vision as a source of information about the world


What is audition/hearing

200

Lobe that contains the primary auditory cortex


What is the temporal lobe

300

Changes in behavior when people know someone is observing them


What is reactivity OR What is the Hawthorne effect

300

Affects the adult brain by resulting in greater neurogenesis, more connections per neuron, thicker cerebral cortex, better spatial memory, and increased learning ability


What is environmental enrichment

300

Primary purpose of play is to provide a means for young animals to practice their species-typical behaviors


What is Groo’s Theory

300

Part of the brain where location of objects are processed 

What is the dorsal stream

300

Phineas Gage, a railroad worker, experienced a change in personality because of a tampering iron that went through this part of his brain.


What is the prefrontal cortex

400

The variable that is hypothesized to have some effect on another variable


What is an independent variable

400

Process by which repeated activation of synapses results in strengthening of those synapses


What is LTP

400

Learning to engage in a behavior or not, after seeing others being rewarded or punished for performing that action


What is vicarious learning

400

Transparent tissue that helps focus the light that passes through it 

What is the cornea

400

Receives almost all incoming sensory information, organizes it, and relays it to the cortex


What is the thalamus

500

Board that reviews research proposals that use non-human animals


What is the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)

500

Brain region that plays a role in stressful feelings like anxiety, irritability, and unease. Drugs make this area more sensitive, leading to anxiety.


What is the extended amygdala

500

Learning about a stimulus, such as sight or sound, in the external world in the absence of reward or punishment


What is nonassociative learning

500

Functions in dim light and detects black and white vision


What are rods

500

Nucleus in the thalamus involved in the visual pathway


What is the lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus (LGN)