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Deep in the temporal lobe, this is essential for emotional processing, particularly relevant in anxiety disorders, PTSDD, and emotional dysregulation. 

What is the Amygdala?

100

Higher cognitive functions such as decision-making, planning, reasoning, and working memory; controls social behavior, impulse inhibition, and personality expression.

What is Prefrontal Cortex

100

a region in the brain associated with the fight or flight response, as well as controlling emotions like fear and anger 

What is the amygdala?

100

Measure of central tendency taken by averaging scores

What is the mean?

100

Credited as the founder of psychoanalysis

Who is Sigmund Freud?

200
Located in the temporal lobe and part of the limbic system, this is central to the formation of new memories; damage results in anterograde amnesia (cannot form new memories).

What is the Hippocampus?

200

Voluntary motor control of skeletal muscles. The motor cortex maps the body's muscles in a way where each area controls specific body parts.

What is the motor cortex?

200

the brain region responsible for converting short term memory into long term memory.

What is the hippocampus?

200

The effect to which one's expecations infleunce the results of an experiment.

What is the placebo effect?

200

Sleep stage during which vivid dreaming occurs

What is REM sleep?

300

Deep within the cerebral hemispheres, they are involved in movement regulation, learning routines, and habit formation--integral in reward processing.

What is the Basal Ganglia?

300

Crucial for language comprehension, understanding spoken and written language is left to this area of the superior temporal gyrus.

What is the Wernicke's Area?

300

The brain region responsible for regulating breathing and heart beat.

What is the medulla?

300

Research design in which a group of participants are studied for a long range of time.

What is a longitudinal study?

300

Type of drug that slows neural activity, additionally associated with poor judgment and memory loss.

What is Alcohol?

400

At the posterior of the brain, this is responsible for coordination, balance, and fine motor skills. 

What is the cerebellum?

400

Processes sensory information related to touch, pain, temperature, and proprioception--important for spatial awareness and body position. This is located in the parietal lobe behind the postcentral gyrus.

What is Somatosensory Cortex?

400

Enables a person to control physiological responses that are normally involuntary

What is the biofeedback?

400

Research technique used to minimize effects of confounding variables

What is random assignment?

400

What is the function of dynorphins?

What is pain modulation and emotional control?

500
Located in the midbrain, this produces dopamine and is involved in the brain's reward system, motivation and pleasure--dysregulation is linked to addiction, schizophrenia, and depression.

What is the Ventral Tegmental Area (VTA)?

500

Part of the diencephalon, this regulates vital bodily functions like hunger, thirst, temperature, and hormonal control via the pituitary glad. 

What is the hypothalamus?

500

A region in the hypothalamus that is responsible for regulating control over our circadian rhythms.

What is the superchiasmic nucleus?

500

Percentage of data that is included in the first and second standard deviations of a normal curve

What is 95%

500

when a quick succession of images in series create the illusion of movement. More specifically many recall this as the moving dot images. 

What is the phi phenomenon?

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