Neuroanatomy
These tree-like branches receive messages from other cells
What are dendrites?
What is the unabbreviated name for fMRI?
What is Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging?
2026 NCAA Men's Basketball National Championship
What is University of Michigan?
mental discomfort you feel when your actions do not match your beliefs
What is cognitive dissonance?
physicist and chemist who discovered radioactivity
The bundle of nerve fibers that allow your brain's left and right hemispheres to communicate
What is corpus callosum?
A test that measures electrical activity in the brain
What is EEG?
Umich was founded this year
1837
This psychological study tested participants' willingness to administer dangerous electrical shocks to a stranger under orders from an authority figure.
What is the Milgram experiment?
The father of classical conditioning
Ivan Pavlov
Meaning "little brain", this structure coordinate balance and fine motor control
What is the cerebellum?
Uses injected radioactive tracers to measure chemical activity, glucose use, or abnormal protein deposits like amyloid
What is PET scan?
University of Michigan's original location
Where is Detroit?
Often confused with "split personality," this rare dissociative disorder actually involves a person displaying two or more distinct, alternating identities.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)?
Creator of the Stanford Prison Experiment
Philip Zimbardo
This brain region, part of the limbic system, is essential for forming new long-term memories
What is the limbic system?
This imaging technique uses X-rays to identify skull fractures and bleeding
What is a CT scan?
What is 19?
In this famous study on conformity, participants gave obviously incorrect answers about the lengths of lines just to match the opinions of the group.
What is the Asch Line Study?
This Swiss psychologist is famous for his theory of cognitive development, which outlines how children progress through stages like sensorimotor and preoperational.
Who is Jean Piaget?
Located in the temporal lobe, this cortical area is critical for language comprehension. Damage to this area can lead to _____ aphasia where individuals have fluent speech that does not make sense
What is Wernicke's area?
What is Velocity Spectrum Imaging (developed at Umich) belongs to what family of brain imaging?
What is MRI?
Umich has this many football national championships
Individuals with this disorder have a persistent, irrational fear of open spaces or places where escape might be difficult.
What is agoraphobia?
A umich professor who developed "wanting" vs "liking" theory