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Experiments
Neuro-Stuff
Stress
Health Psychology
100
This transmits information from the brain to the rest of the body.
What is the Spinal Cord
100
A type of study where neither the participant nor the experimenter know which is the control group or which is the experimental.
What is a Double Blind Study.
100
A nerve cell that processes and transmits information
What is a Neuron
100
Positive, good stress.
What is Eustress
100
Studies how biological, psychological and social factors interact in health and illness.
What is Health Psychology
200
Involved in respiration, movement, waking, sleep and dreaming
What are Pons
200
A group of people from which one's sample of subjects are drawn. What you are looking to find out more about.
What is Population
200
Recieves information from dendrites and provides support function
What is Cell Body
200
The type of stress that happens when the stress is on-going like an illness.
What is Chronic Stress.
200
When presented with a stressful situation you react by trying to manage your emotions.
What is Emotion-Focused Coping
300
Thin outer layer responsible for high mental processes
What is the Cerebral Cortex
300
A subset of a population which can be tested and inferences about the population can be drawn.
What is Sample
300
Covers the axon and gives the message being transmitted speed
What is Myelin Sheath
300
This is the second phase in the GAS and is when your bodies psychological arousal becomes higher than normal for a prolonged period of time.
What is Resistance.
300
Believing that everything that happens is out of your control and its all due to things that happen around you.
What is External Control
400
Holds the left hemisphere and the right hemisphere of the brain together and transfers information between the two.
What is the Corpus Callosum
400
A fake treatment or sugar pill used in the control group of an experiment.
What is a Placebo.
400
Chemicals released by neurons and travels across synaptic gap
What is Neurotransmitters
400
This stress accumulates from a "blocked goal"
What is Frustration
400
A type of behavior that is not genetic or instinctive, like being optimistic.
What is a Learned Behavior.
500
Helps screen incoming sensory information and helps control arousal
What is the Reticular Formation
500
When an experimenter tells the participant the basics of the experiment before they begin, so that it is ethical.
What is informed consent.
500
Gap between the tip of axon and other neurons dendrite
What is Synapse
500
This is a serious physical illness that shrinks the brain, especially the hippocampus.
What is PTS (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
500
Dealing directly with a stressor to decrease or eliminate it.
What is Problem-Solving Coping
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