The Brain & Nervous System
This part of the nervous system activates your fight-or-flight response.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
This process involves getting information into memory.
What is encoding?
This theory explains how early relationships influence later relationships.
What is attachment theory?
This field studies mental disorders, thoughts, and behaviors.
What is psychology?
This type of app often uses likes, comments, and notifications to keep people coming back.
What is social media?
This division of the nervous system helps your body relax and recover after stress.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
This type of memory can sometimes be inaccurate or changed over time.
What is reconstructive memory?
Humans need social connection, as this is considered belonging, a basic need.
What is a basic psychological need?
Anxiety disorders involve excessive levels of this emotion.
What is fear (or anxiety)?
Listening to loud music while studying can make this harder to do.
What is paying attention (or focusing)?
This brain structure is heavily involved in processing emotions like fear.
What is the amygdala?
Eyewitness testimony can be unreliable because memory is not like this device.
What is a video camera?
People may stay in unhealthy relationships because of emotional reinforcement patterns called this.
What is trauma bonding?
Therapy and medication are examples of these.
What are treatment approaches?
Seeing perfect pictures or videos online can sometimes affect this and make people feel worse about themselves.
What is self-esteem?
This lobe of the brain is responsible for decision-making and problem-solving.
What is the frontal lobe?
This type of memory briefly holds information you are actively thinking about, like remembering a phone number long enough to dial it.
What is short-term memory (or working memory)?
This neurotransmitter is linked to pleasure, reward, and social media use.
What is dopamine?
This type of professional treatment uses talking and psychological techniques to improve mental health.
What is psychotherapy?
When people copy dances, trends, or challenges because others are doing them, they are being influenced by this.
What is peer pressure (or social influence)?
Dreams may occur partly because the brain is doing this important task during sleep.
What is processing memories (or memory consolidation)?
Forgetting where you put your keys or what homework was due is an example of a failure in this memory process.
What is retrieval?
Divorce or split parents do not automatically cause problems because these factors can protect children.
What are protective factors (or supportive relationships)?
Mental health disorders are usually caused by one factor only: true or false?
What is false?
Sometimes movies, TV shows, or social media give incorrect ideas about this topic, which can affect how people think about getting help.
What is mental health?