Brain
This part of the brain controls voluntary movement.
What is the cerebellum?
When the sympathetic nervous system is suddenly aroused in a high-stress situation.
What is the fight or flight or freeze reaction?
This sleep disorder is characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness and cataplexy, or moments of muscle weakness.
What is narcolepsy?
THC, the active ingredient of marijuana, is classified as a _________
What is mild hallucinogen?
SSRI medications such as Prozac and Paxil help with this disorder.
What is depression?
This part of the brain is primarily concerned with memory.
What is the hippocampus?
This neurotransmitter is linked to mood and too little of it is associated with depression.
What is serotonin?
This 24-hour cycle regulates our sleep and wake periods.
What is circadian rhythm?
Heroin and other opiates are ________ agonists.
What is endorphin?
Too little acetylcholine is associated with this brain disorder.
What is Alzheimer's?
this lobe of the brain is concerned with sight.
What is occipital?
This is the brief electrical charge that travels down the neuron.
What is action potential?
This sleep stage is when we have sleep spindles.
What is stage 2?
When a person uses a drug and gets used to the effect, thus requiring more of the drug to get the original effect.
What is tolerance?
This type of neuron transmits information from the spinal cord to the muscles of the body.
What is motor neuron?
This characteristic of the brain means that parts of it can be molded to do new functions.
What is plasticity or plastic?
An excess amount of this neurotransmitter is linked to schizophrenia.
What is dopamine?
This theory of dreams assumes there is no actual meaning, that our mind is just trying to make sense of random bursts of neural activity.
What is activation-synthesis theory?
Cocaine, caffeine, and nicotine are classified as _____.
What is a stimulant?
This theory of hypnosis claims that the mind is actually split into two levels of awareness.
What is dissociation or divided consciousness?
In split-brain patients, a person can say something that is briefly flashed into htis visual field.
What is right?
These chemicals in the synapse prevent a neurotransmitter from being re-absorbed into the axon terminal.
What is reuptake inhibitor?
REM sleep is sometimes called ____ because your body is totally limp while your mind is very active.
What is paradoxical sleep?
One type of psychological addiction happens to a person when using the drug helps them forget their stressors and negative emotions such as anxiety. This is the operant conditioning term for this process.
What is negative reinforcement?
After being hypnotized, a person may do something they wouldn't have done before because of this phenomenon.
What is post-hypnotic suggestion?