Nervous and Endocrine System
This is the part of the nervous system that contains the brain and the spinal cord.
What is the Central Nervous System?
This part of the brain controls life-saving functions such as heartrate and respiration.
What is the Medulla?
This brain lobe is responsible for executive functioning and logic.
What is the Frontal Lobe?
This is the ability to detect a stimulus in your environment at least 50% of the time.
What is absolute threshold?
This Gestalt principle allows us to see whole figures even when there are gaps.
What is the Law of Closure?
This part of the nervous system calms the body down after arousal.
What is the Parasympathetic Nervous System?
This part of the brain, often called the "little brain," is responsible for balance and coordination.
What is the Cerebellum?
This brain lobe is responsible for our sense of vision.
What is the Occipital Lobe?
These two sense are your chemical senses, recieving particals of matter from the environment.
What are Smell and Taste?
This monocular cue allows us to percieve objects as closer because they block our view of another object.
What is interposition?
This part of the endocrine system is responsible for the release of epinephrine.
What are Adrenal Glands?
The Hypothalamus is responsible for these five traits, all starting with F.
What are:
Fighting, Fleeing, Feeding, Fahrenheit and Fornication
The sensory cortex is located in this lobe of the brain.
What is the Parietal Lobe?
This sense tracks where the body is in space and assists with distributing weight.
What is the Kinesthetic Sense?
This is the difference between a monocular and a binocular cue.
What is how many eyes are used?
This part of the neuron is responsible for recieving information from other neurons.
What are dendrites?
This part of the brain is responsible for short term memory.
What is the Hippocampus?
This area is responsible for voluntary movement.
What is the Motor Cortex?
People who are nearsighted or farsighted often have issues with this part of the eye.
What is the Lens?
What is Selective Attention?
This part of the neuron insulates the axon to provide faster reaction times.
What is myelin sheath?
This part of the brain connects the left and right hemisphere of the cerebrum.
What is the Corpus Callosum?
This area is responsible for producing speech, located on the left hemisphere of the Frontal Lobe.
What is the Broca's Area?
This is the part of the ear that turns sound waves into a neural signal. It is shaped like a snail.
What is the Cochlea?
This is the reason why our environment and experiences limit what we percieve in the world.
What is Perceptual Set?