What You Should Know About Your Brain

The pre frontal cortex is also known as the

• reactive brain

• thinking brain

Reticular Activating System is also known as the

• The gatekeeper

• The Gate Guard

RAS is the

• first filter for information that enters the brain.

• activation center of information

The amygdala is like a

• a train station-routing information like the station routes the trains

• Is the first filter for information to go through

The amygdala is located

• near the brain stem

• near the frontal lobe

Hippocampus

• links new sensory information to old memories/knowledge

• filters the new information

Axons and dendrites are

• branches at the end of neurons that send electrical messages throughout the nervous system.

• neurotransmitters like dopamine

Dopamine is

• a synapse

• a neurotransmitter that carries electrical messages across synapses.

Making judgments, planning, organizing and problem solving are all

• Executive functions

• Nuerotransmitters

_________ bits of information enter the brain every second.

• 2 million

• 2 hundred

• 2 thousand