Brain Parts and Functions
Chief in executive functioning and decision making
What is FRONTAL LOBE?
Beliefs lead to actions which reaffirm beliefs.
What is SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESY?
The learner has a choice
What is OPERANT CONDITIONING?
Retrieval of information from the past
What is RECALL?
America's tallest President?
Who was ABE LINCOLN?
Chief in Language and sound processing
What is the TEMPORAL LOBE?
The process of removing unnecessary synapses and neurons which strengthens the necessary ones.
What is PRUNING?
The learner's response is automatic
What is CLASSICAL CONDITIONING?
The process of how we store information
What is ENCODING?
Brian Urlacher and Walter Payton both played for this NFL team.
What is the CHICAGO BEARS?
The cell that carries brain information
What is a NEURON?
Growing and improving your brain function.
What is NEUROPLASTICITY?
A teenager gets their phone taken away in order to stop arguing with their parents
What is NEGATIVE PUNISHMENT?
What is EPISODIC MEMORY?
Last name of all 4 Beatles.
Starr, McCartney, Lennon, Harrison
Chief in balance and spatial awareness
What is the PARIETAL LOBE?
Change in behavior as a result of experience, observation or thinking.
What is LEARNING?
An employer implements a policy where employees who miss deadlines must attend mandatory time management workshops.
What is POSITIVE PUNISHMENT?
Memory of specific skills and procedures (automatic)
What is IMPLICIT MEMORY?
Emily Elizabeth's pet?
Who is CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG?
The space between neurons that connects them and enables them to pass messages between neurons
What is a SYNAPSE?
Name a factor that might HINDER synaptic function, therefore HINDER learning.
What is drugs, alcohol, or too big of emotions. (also taking test anxiety)
A man does laundry. He hears a timer and then goes to check if his clothes are dry, which they always are, then he puts them away. After a while he does not need to check if his clothes are dry when he hears the timer, he just automatically puts them away.
Name the CS and CR in this scenario
What is...
CS - Timer
CR - Puts clothes away
Memory of general knowledge facts
What is SEMANTIC MEMORY?
1800's fire that tore through Northeastern Wisconsin, labeled the deadliest wildfire in American history?
What is the PESHTIGO FIRE?