Neurotransmitters & Hormones
Releases adrenaline
What are the adrenal glands?
Damage to this structure will results in an inability to walk in a straight line.
What is the cerebellum?
The most commonly used psychoactive drugs in the world.
Founder of Psychoanalysis
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Assess whether using pre-work out enhances athletic performance.
What is an experiment?
Low level can indicate depression.
What is serotonin?
Regulates hunger.
What is the hypothalamus?
Sleep disorder characterized by falling asleep in the middle of a conversation.
What is narcolepsy?
Created the Hierarchy of Needs
Who is Abraham Maslow?
The study found that "Studying longer indicates higher grades". (type of correlation)
What is a positive correlation?
Blocks reuptake of a neurotransmitter.
What is an agonist?
The result of damage to Broca's area.
What is the inability to produce speech? AKA aphasia
Needing more and more of a drug to have the same effect.
What is tolerance?
Leading behaviorist and conductor of the Little Albert experiment.
Who is John B. Watson?
In an experiment on screen-time and sleep duration. Sleep duration would be the _______.
What is the dependent variable?
What is melatonin?
Drugs that affect this area of the brain can cause a growth spurt.
What is the pituitary gland?
People who are overweight are at greater risk of this sleep disorder.
What is sleep apnea?
Coined the term "operant" and leading behaviorist
Who is BF Skinner?
The statement "Because students spend more time on their cellphone, their interpersonal relationships are declining".
What is a hypothesis?
Released during a "runner's high".
What are endorphins?
The part of the nervouscsystem that dilates your pupils and speeds up your heart rate.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
Physical pain experienced after discontinuing use of psychoactive drugs.
What is withdrawal?
Founder of "client-centered" therapy and co-founder of humanism.
Who is Carl Rogers?
Observing and recording the behaviors in a classroom.
What is naturalistic observation?