Lobes of the Brain
This system of the brain is also known as the "life support" of the brain because it controls things like breathing, heart rate, and blood pressure.
What is the brain stem?
This is the injury that made Phineus Gage famous in the world of Neuroscience.
What is a tamping iron/iron rod that went through his frontal lobe?
This mindset is associated with the belief that we are constantly growing, and can always learn or improve.
What is a growth mindset?
This is the thing in an experiment that the scientist changes/tests
What is an independent variable?
The occipital lobe is primarily used for this important sense
What is vision/eyesight
When we feel scared, sad, joyful, or grateful, it is most likely a result of activity in this brain system.
What is the limbic system?
These are examples of changes that Phineus Gage experienced after healing from his injuries.
Angrier, Less organized, Unpredictable, impulsive, irresponsible, inappropriate
This mindset is associated with the belief that our abilities are determined at birth and do not change.
What is a fixed mindset?
This is the thing in an experiment that the scientist measures in order to determine the effects of the thing they are testing
What is a dependent variable?
When I touch a soft blanket, this part of the brain is responsible for telling me that it feels soft on my skin.
What is the parietal lobe?
Damage to this system of the brain would likely result in a sense of imbalance and a difficulty with motor skills.
What is the cerebellum?
This three word phrase is used to describe severe damage to the head.
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
This was the independent variable in Dweck's Study.
What are types of praise?
What are control variables?
Damage to this lobe of the brain is likely to result in memory loss, speech loss, or difficulty understanding language.
What is the temporal lobe?
This is the system of the brain that we commonly associate with intelligence and "higher level" thinking. It is particularly large in humans, and it is responsible for conscious thought.
What is the cerebrum?
This concept, learned from Phineas' accident, tells us that different parts of the brain do different jobs.
What is localization?
This was the dependent variable in Carol Dweck's experiment.
What is choice of puzzle? (challenging/easy)
This is the gold-standard of scientific research. It is a kind of experiment with at least two trials in which researchers only change one thing, so that they can compare the results with and without that change.
What is a controlled experiment?
A patient arrives in a hospital after falling off their bike and hitting their head. The doctor examines them, and finds that they are having difficulty speaking, and they are acting very erratically. These are the two lobes that are most likely to be damaged.
What are the frontal lobe and temporal lobe?
This system of the brain is responsible for sending our sensory inputs to the parts of the brain that can decode them. It also plays an important part in hormone regulation.
What is the diencephalon?
This concept, which built on the concepts learned from Phineas Gage, tells us that when doing a task, we only use the parts of our brain that are needed for that task.
What is selective recruitment?
These are two things that Dweck discovered about students who have a growth mindset or who are praised for work instead of ability.
-Improved at Math over time
- More likely to challenge themselves
- More likely to enjoy the puzzle
These are the 7 steps of the scientific method.
What are ask a question, form a hypothesis, design an experiment, test the hypothesis/gather data, analyze data, form a conclusion, and share the results