The Brain
The number of lobes in a human brain
What is 4?
The theory that genes & biology influence personality.
What is nature?
Retaining information while manipulating it
What is working memory?
The number of sleep stages
What is 5?
The awareness of oneself as a separate entity from others
What is social awareness?
Chemical signals by which neurons communicate
What are neurotransmitters?
The theory that environment influences personality.
What is nurture?
Retained general factual knowledge
What is semantic memory?
The phenomenon in which the eyes move rapidly while dreaming
What is rapid eye movement (REM)?
Recognizing oneself in a mirror is taken as evidence of this.
Self-awareness.
The most highly developed brain areas
What are the cerebral hemispheres?
Research studies that can separate nature and nurture.
What are twin studies?
Retained episodes from one's life experience
What is episodic memory?
The stateg of sleep during which dreaming occurs
What is REM sleep?
4 types of evidence that humans, but not other animals, have social awareness.
Self-recognition, shared attention, face-to-face-interaction, & gestures.
Thinking, feeling, & consciousness are governed by this brain area
What is the Forebrain?
English girls who had uncanny similarities but were unrelated.
Who is Laura Buxton?
Flashbulb memory
What are detailed memories from one's life?
The stage of sleep during which all sensory input is blocked & the body is paralyzed.
What is REM (stage 5)?
The two variables that make music pleasurable.
What are predictability of the melody combined with small surprises?
This brain system is involved in emotional arrousal.
What is the limbic system?
Appears to affect only religious values and “social closeness".
What is the home environment?
The 3 memory stages or processes
What is encoding, storage & retrieval?
Memory consolidation and learning happen during this stage of sleep.
What is REM?
A group of neurons that make physical imitation possible in primates.
What are mirror neurons?