This classic debate in psychology questions the relative contributions of inherited traits and environmental factors to behavior.
What is nature v. nurture?
This organ acts as the body’s command center, processing information and making decisions.
What is the brain?
The term for chemicals that travel from one neuron to another, affecting nearby neurons.
What is neurotransmitters?
The primary connection between the left and the right hemisphere
What is the corpus callosum?
Patient feels excessively sleepy during the day. She sometimes cannot tell if she is dreaming or hallucinating. When she wakes up in the morning she feels glued to her bed as if she cannot move. She mentions that she feels weak when she laughs or is being tickled.
What is narcolepsy?
This research method involves in-depth study of one individual or a small group.
What is case study?
In which nervous system does our fight-or-flight response occur?
Sympathetic Nervous System
Number 50 can be identified as
What is the Myelin sheath?
What is the green part of the brain?
What is temporal lobe?
This 24 hour "internal clock" is how our bodies know when it is time to sleep and when it is time to wake up.
What is circadian rhythm?
__________ is the study of how your behaviors and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work.
What is epigenetics?
Functions such as heartbeat and digestion go through which nervous system?
What is Autonomic
The part of the neuron that is responsible for holding the neurotransmitters until they are ready to be sent into the synapse.
What is terminal buttons?
What is the red (52) part of the brain?
What is parietal lobe?
During this stage your brain experiences alpha waves and you may have hallucinations
What is NREM stage 1?
This perspective argues that psychological traits such as language, phobias, and mate preferences have been shaped by natural selection.
What is evolutionary psychology?
The Central Nervous System contains 2 main body parts. What are they?
What are the spinal cord and the brain?
Caffeine, Nicotine, and amphetamines are all classified as what type of drug?
What is stimulants?
This part of the brain regulates someone's sense of fear
What is amygdala?
During this sleep stage, your brain experiences sleep spindles and you can still be awakened without difficulty
What is NREM stage 2?
What is the difference between monozygotic and dizygotic twins?
What is monozygotic twins come from one split egg and dizygotic twins come from two separate eggs?
This division of the peripheral nervous system controls voluntary muscle movements, such as raising your hand in class.
What is the somatic nervous system?
This neurotransmitter has been most associated with major depressive disorder
What is serotonin?
Injury to this part of the brain is likely to cause someone to have great difficulty maintaining their balance and coordinating their movements
What is cerebellum?
When you don't sleep enough for many days and then you finally final asleep, you are likely to experience ________________.
What is REM rebound?