Brainpower
Bean sized neural clusters that are linked with aggression and fear.
What is Amygdala?
An anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object or situation.
What is phobia?
The adjustable opening in the center of the eye through which light enters.
What is the Pupil?
Chamber that contains 3 tiny bones (hammer, anvil, and stirrup) that concentrate vibrations to the cochlea/
What is the middle ear?
Mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.
What is intelligence?
The base of the brain-stem that controls heartbeat and breathing.
An anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and/or actions.
What is OCD?
What is the optic nerve.
The inner most part of the ear, containing the cochlea, semicircular canals, and vestibular tubes.
What is the inner ear?
Defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group.
What is standardization?
The part of the brain that lies in the back of the head that receives into from visual fields.
A widely used system for classifying disorders.
What is DMS-IV-TR?
The dimension of color that is determined by the wavelength of light.
What is hue?
A coiled, bony fluid-filled tube in the inner ear through which sound waves trigger nerve impulses.
What is the cochlea?
A condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawing.
What is Savant Syndrome?
The visual display of brain activity that detects where a radioactive form of glucose goes while the brain performs a given task.
What is PET Scan?
Positive psychological change experienced as a result of adversity and other challenges in order to rise to a higher level of functioning.
What is Post-Traumatic Growth?
The central focal point in the retina, around which the eye's cones cluster.
What is the fovea?
In hearing, the theory that links the pitch we hear with the place where the cochlea's membrane is stimulated.
What is the Place Theory?
What is the Stanford-Benet?
A technique for revealing blood-flow and therefore brain activity by comparing successive MRI scans, also shows brain function.
What is fMRI?
The concept that diseases have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and in most cases cured, often through treatment in a hospital.
What is medial model?
The theory that the retina contains three different color receptors which, when stimulated in combination, can produce the perception of any color.
What is Young-Helmholtz Trichromatic Theory?
Hearing loss caused by damage to the mechanical system that conducts sound waves to the cochlea.
The most widely used intelligence test; contains verbal and performance sub-tests.
What is the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale?