Psychology Brain Video Test

The ____ controls every aspect of our lives

Brain

The brain weighs ____

3 lbs

We share the ____ with other animals and reptiles

Brain stem (Oldest part of the brain)

The first floor of the brain is called the ____

Limbic system

____ is one of our most primal emotions

Fear

The part of the brain that makes us most human is the ____

Frontal cortex

The ____ is the “second floor” of the brain

Cortex

Conscious rational thought is processed by the _____

Frontal lobe

____ is the primal/super fear that humans have a hard time overcoming

Drowning

The brain sends out electrical nerve impulses to nerve cells that travel up to the ____

Nervous system

The amygdala sends ____ to prepare the body for action

Stress hormones (Adrenaline and Cortisal)

The big 4 techniques used to help Navy seals are ____, ____, ____, ____

1. Goal setting

2. Mental rehearsal

3. Self-talk

4. Arousal control

____ plays a role in anticipation

Dopamine

Research suggests that as many as in 1 in every inmates are ____

Psychopaths

Psychopaths can have high intelligence, such as Joe Rifken, who has an IQ of ____, in the top 3%

128

Psychopaths have a smaller ____ than normal humans, almost up to 17% in size difference

Amygdala (Does not communicate w/frontal lobes)

We have ____ so that we can make better decisions in the future

Memory

The storage capacity of the brain is ____-____ ____

10 trillion bytes

Sight is processed in the ____ in the back of the head

Occipital lobes

Clive Wearing suffers from both long term and short term memory loss which is due to the ___ of the brain

Hippocampus (Short term to long term memory, and he has a 30 second memory span)

Different types of memory are store in ____ ____ of the brain

Different parts

____ for playing the piano is still intact, therefore, Clive can still play the piano

Procedural memory

50% of sports performance is related to the ____ functioning

Brain

The ____ is the part of the brain that benefits most from practice

Cerebellum

It take ____ hours of practice for the cerebellum to know what to do

10,000

____ is an excellent example of a sport where performance anxiety can be clearly seen

Golf

Eye blinking is usually related to ____

Anxiety

“The ____” is when an athlete feels the constant flow of movements without conscious effort

Zone

Although ____ American believe in extrasensory perception, only a handful of scientists entertain this possibility

One in four

Has ESP been scientifically proven to be part of our brain functioning

No

What does DARPA stand for

Defense Advanced Research Project Agency

For all that we have learned about the brain, there is still so much to ____

Discover