Auditory perception
Term that describes the intensity of the sound waves, or the height of the sound waves.
What is amplitude?
Term that describes a drug or procedure with no pharmacological effect.
What is a placebo?
What is a circannual rhythm?
Term for the ability to succeed and thrive despite many difficulties.
What is resilience?
The main symptom of this disorder is the inability to breathe while sleeping.
What is sleep apnea?
The function of this division of the ear translates sound waves into electrical signals.
What is the inner ear?
The system that involves detection of the position and movement of the head.
What is the vestibular system?
Type of test you would have if you were going to have a sleep study.
What is a polysomnograph (PSG)?
The three components of emotion.
What are cognitions, feelings, and actions?
Type of anxiety disorder with frequent periods of extreme anxiety, shortness of breath, sweating, and increased heart rate.
What is panic disorder?
Brain area that helps with auditory imagery.
What is Area A1?
Name two somatosensations detected by the body.
What are: discriminative touch, pain, temperature, itch, tickle, movement of the joints?
The main control center of the circadian rhythms of sleep and temperature.
What is the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus (SCN)?
This theory states we experience a frighenting situation, have a bodily response (e.g. increased heart rate), then experience fear.
Type of anxiety disorder people may be diagnosed with after experiencing a traumatic event.
What is posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?
Type of hearing loss that is most frequently from a genetic or childhood problem, or a childhood disorder.
What is nerve deafness or inner ear hearing loss?
The idea that body sensations remain separate all the way to the cortex.
What is the somatotopic organization?
The pathway of light from the eye to the SCN.
What is the retinohypothalamic pathway?
The three stages of the General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS).
What is the alarm stage, resistance stage, and exhaustion stage?
A sleep disorder that involves cataplexy and sleep paralysis.
What is narcolepsy?
Term that describes the idea that certain cells in the primary auditory cortex are more responsive to preferred tones.
What is tonotopic map?
The 2 main structures of the vestibular system/organ.
What are the semicircular canals and the otolith organs (saccule and utricle)?
This hormone is secreted by the pineal gland, and is important in increasing sleepiness.
What is melatonin?
The three functions of emotions discussed in class.
What are adaptive value, communication of needs, and help in decision making?
This type of anxiety disorder is associated with decreased GABA and increased orexin.
What is panic disorder?