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Brain stem - answer Connects the brain and
spinal cord includes midbrain (Controls eye
movement and processes visual and auditory
information), pons (group of nerves
connecting different parts of the brain;
includes some cranial nerves which are
involved in facial movement and transmitting
sensory information), and medulla oblongata
,(control center for heart and lungs regulating
breathing, sneezing, and swallowing)
Diencephalon - answer Base of brain includes
thalamus (relay station for signals coming into
brain, memory, sleep, and consciousness),
hypothalamus (homeostasis and balance of
body functions such as sleep/wake cycle,
appetite, body temperature, and release of
hormones), and epithalamus (connection
between limbic system (emotions, long term
memory, and behavior and other parts of
brain)
Cerebellum - answer Fine motor skills,
maintaining posture, equilibrium, and balance
Cerebrum - answer Largest part of the brain
includes frontal lobe (coordinate higher level
behaviors, motor skills, problem solving,
judgement, planning, attention, and
managing emotions/impulses), parietal lobe
(organizing and interpreting sensory
,information from other parts of the brain),
occipital lobe (read and recognize printed
word, vision), and temporal lobe (visual
memory including face recognition, verbal
memory including understanding language,
interpreting emotions and reactions of others)
Parts of Ear - answer External (which includes
pinna or auricle (harnesses sounds and directs
them into ear canal) and external auditory
canal (connects outer to middle ear)),
Tympanic membrane (also called the ear
drum, divides external and middle ear,
vibrates at incoming sound waves, where
process of understanding sounds begins,
causes bones of middle ear to vibrate), Middle
Ear (includes ossicles which are 3 small bones
(malleus, incus, and stepes) that are
connected and transmit sound waves to inner
ear), Eustachian tube (canal linking middle
ear with back of nose to equalize pressure,
filled with mucous), Inner ear (waves
converted to electrical impulses, includes
cochlea (nerves for hearing, filled with tiny
hairs and fluid, vibrate in response to
, vibrating ossicles), vestibule (receptors for
balance), and semicircular canals (receptors
fo balance))
Tip of the tongue phenomenon - answer the
temporary inability to remember something
you know, accompanied by a feeling that it's
just out of reach
Whole object bias - answer an assumption
made by language learners that a word
describes an entire object rather than just
some portion of it
Taxonomic bias - answer in language
development a tendency to suppose a novel
word refers to one thing refers to similar
things such that dog refers to a poodle and a
collie but not the thematic related thing such
as a bone
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis - answer the idea that
language structures thought and that ways of
