Intro/Brain And Cognition

Question 1

What are the brain lobes for?
EF/WM

Answer 1

Frontal lobe

Question 2

What are the brain lobes for?
Episodic memory/Semantic memory

Answer 2

Temporal lobe

Question 3

What are the brain lobes for?
Attention

Answer 3

Parietal lobe

Question 4

What are the brain lobes for?
Problem solving/thinking/reasoning

Answer 4

Frontal lobe

Question 5

What are three attentional networks?

Answer 5

Default, ventral, dorsal

Question 6

Implicit memories, such as motor memories, rely on the basal ganglia and ___________.

Answer 6

Cerebellum

Question 7

Declarative and episodic memory as well as recognition memory

Answer 7

Hippocampus

Question 8

fear and fear memories

Answer 8

Amygdala

Question 9

Procedural memories: how to play the piano

Answer 9

Cerebellum

Question 10

Remembering semantic tasks

Answer 10

Prefrontal cortex

Question 11

What’s the critical function of hippocampus in memory?

Answer 11

Acquiring new memory

Question 12

How does exercise affect brain and cognition? (Children/elderly)

Answer 12

Increase hippocampal and have better memory

Question 13

What is language?

Answer 13

Language is a rule-governed behavior.

Question 14

What are the components of language?

Answer 14

Semantics, syntax, phonology, morphonology, pragmatics

Question 15

What is cognition? What is the definition?

Answer 15

Cognition is about intelligence and mental process. It is the mental process of acquiring knowledge through thoughts, experiences, and the senses.

Question 16

What is the common/consistent view on the relationship between language and cognition?

Answer 16

Language is embedded in cognition

Question 17

Compare the following processing: automatic vs. controlled processing

Answer 17

Automatic processing is the process without thinking and takes little or no space of working memory. Controlled processing is the process that requires conscious thinking and takes space of working memory.

Question 18

Compare the following direction of processing: bottom-up vs. top-down processing

Answer 18

Bottom-up is data driven and focuses on vocabulary and grammar. Top-down is concept driven and uses prior knowledge to process information.

Question 19

what is the definition of working memory?

Answer 19

The retention of the current in-put and what is just happened.

Question 20

What is executive functioning?

Answer 20

The executive superviory system

Question 21

What are the three components of EF?

Answer 21

Initiation, organization, planning