neurotransmitter involved in perception, sleep, emotions, and depression.
What is serotonin?
100
the sensory receptor cells for pain found in the skin, muscles, and internal organs.
What is nocireceptors?
100
Fast active brain waves, heart rate/blood pressure increases/fluctuates, muscles twitches, and dreaming.
What is REM: Rapid Eye Movement?
100
permanent change in behavior or knowledge as a result of experience.
What is learning?
100
the mental processes that allow us to retain and retrieve information overtime.
What is memory?
200
a specialized neuron that conveys information to muscles.
What is Motor Neurons?
200
the decline in sensitivity to a constant stimulus.
What is sensory adaption?
200
believed in the unconscious mind--that much of our personality, memories, and emotions take place on a level that we are not consciously aware of but that affects our behavior and mental state.
What is Freud's Dream Theory?
200
when we apply a consequence that increases a behavior. A reward, in other words.
What is reinforcement?
200
Category of long-term memory that involves memory for general knowledge and facts
What is semantic memory?
300
A thick band of axons that connects the two hemispheres of the brain and acts as a connective link between them.
What is the corpus callosum?
300
the process of integrating, organizing, and interpreting sensations.
What is perception?
300
Excessive daytime sleepiness, Uncontrollable episodes of sleep, probably related to lack of neurotransmitter, hypocretins
What is Narcolepsy?
300
Psychologist that conducted one of the more famous early experiments in observational learning.
Who is Albert Bandura?
300
a distorted or fabrication recollection of something that didn't happen. Can be easily induced in people.
What is false memory?
400
the idea that different functions are located in different regions of the brain.
What is localization?
400
sensory receptor cells for hearing that are found in the basilar membrane in the cochlea.
What is hair cells?
400
cooperates with entering into a relaxed state of heightened suggestiveness and imagination
What is Hypnosis?
400
Scientists have identified neurons whose function appears to be to mentally represent actions that we just observe.
What is Mirror Neurons?
400
Memory technique to expand short-term memory by grouping information into meaningful units.
What is chunking?
500
a fatty covering around axons that increases communication speed.
What is the Myelin Sheath?
500
region of brain in the rear with neurons that process visual information.
What is visual cortex?
500
•Produce sedation and sleep
•Relieve anxiety
•Produce a sense of relaxation.
•Lower inhibitions
What is depressants?
500
Researcher who developed the theory of classical conditioning based on his observation of salivating of dogs.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
500
the theory that forgetting is due to physical deterioration in the memory trace overtime.