Explainer: This is your Brain
This company adapted this article.
What is Newsela?
The genre of this story.
What is a short story? OR What is fiction?
Charlie and ___ had the same surgery.
Who is Algernon?
This is the genre of the text.
What is a blog post?
This person authored the text.
Who is Jim Vega?
This part of the brain is critical for control and regulation of movement.
What is the cerebellum?
This person is the author of the story.
This is the main character of the story.
Who is Charlie?
This is the author of the blog post.
Who is Divya Parekh?
This is the genre of the text.
What is an explanatory essay?
This part of the brain is divided into two hemispheres.
What is the cortex?
This character recommends Charlie for the experiment.
Who is Miss Kinnian?
Charlie believed these two characters were geniuses until he became very intelligent.
Who are Dr. Strauss and Dr. Nemur?
This is the ability to recognize and handle one's own emotions and those of other people.
What is emotional intelligence?
Howard Gardner did not agree that this test should be the only way to look at intelligence.
What is IQ or Intelligence Quotient?
Each hemisphere has these: occipital, parietal, temporal, and frontal.
What are the 4 lobes?
These characters are not true friends to Charlie, although, in the beginning, he thinks they are.
Who are Joe and Frank?
This character is in charge of the experimental animals in the lab.
Who is Burt?
Many psychologists agree that this is not as important as emotional intelligence, or EQ.
What is IQ or Intelligence Quotient?
Howard Gardner identified __ this number of areas of human intelligence.
What is 7?
Each part of the brain has it's own ____.
What is function?
Charlie was given these special tests before the surgery.
What are Rorschach tests?
The employees at the factory sign this to have Charlie fired.
What is a petition?
Experts are discovering that a person's EQ is not only a more efficient predictor of the quality of potential relationships, but also something else.
What is success and overall happiness?
This is another term for "street smarts".
What is tacit knowledge?