Phobias
The fear of spiders
Arachnophobia
This is the organ that controls your thoughts, memories, and behavior.
The brain
This disorder is characterized by excessive worry and fear that can make someone feel like danger is lurking around every corner.
Anxiety
What type of learning pairs two stimuli together, such as a scary sound and a jump scare?
Classical Conditioning
During which stage of sleep are vivid dreams especially common?
REM
The fear of enclosed spaces?
Claustrophobia
The brain structure that helps process fear and emotional significance
The amygdala
This disorder involves hearing voices or seeing ghostly figures that aren't actually there.
Schizophrenia
What type of learning changes behavior through rewards and punishments?
Operant conditioning
A sleep disorder that prevents you from falling or staying asleep
Insomnia
The fear and avoidance of places or situations where you might feel panicked, trapped or helpless.
Agoraphobia
This is the neurotransmitter released when you eat a tasty candy. Also involved in reward, motivation, and movement.
Dopamine
While depersonalization makes a person feel detached from their own body, this closely related phenomenon makes the outside world feel completely artificial, fake, or like a two-dimensional stage prop.
Derealization
What is it called when a learned fear decreases after repeated safe exposure to the feared stimulus?
Extinction
What sleep phenomenon can involve being temporarily unable to move while feeling awake?
Sleep paralysis
The fear of heights is called this
Acrophobia
Hormone commonly associated with stress
Cortisol
This severe form of amnesia causes a person to completely lose their identity and wander around like a ghost who forgot their past.
Dissociative Fugue
What learning process occurs when someone develops a fear after watching another person react fearfully?
Observational learning
What is the name for the internal biological timing system that helps regulate the sleep–wake cycle?
Circadian Rhythm
What is Trypanophobia?
The fear of needles (or injections/medical procedures)
What nervous system division prepares your body to fight or flight?
The sympathetic nervous system
This rare delusion causes a person to firmly believe that they are literally dead, have no internal organs, or have completely ceased to exist as a walking corpse.
Cotard's Delusion (Syndrome, Walking Corpse Syndrome)
This Russian physiologist discovered that dogs could be trained to salivate at the sound of a bell (Full Name).
Ivan Pavlov
It might sound like someone is casting a spell, but this common, harmless parasomnia is simply the act of talking out loud while asleep.
Somniloquy