Brain Parts! (Unit 2)
Which half of your body is controlled by the left side of your brain?
The right half
This sleep disorder involves excessive sleepiness during waking hours; its opposite, this sleep disorder involves the repeated inability to sleep
Narcolepsy; insomnia
This neurotransmitter that affects reward pathways is the one targeted by most addictive drugs.
Dopamine
Parents with this type of parenting style give their children lots of freedom and often treat them more as friends.
Permissive
In which stage of Piaget's theory do you develop the ability to think abstractly as well as scientifically? (Give the number or name of the stage.)
Formal operational (Stage 4)
Your autonomic nervous system is divided into two systems that control your fight-or-flight. Name them.
Sympathetic and parasympathetic
Nicotine, caffeine, and meth all fall into this class of drug, which increases nervous system activity and provides you with a boost of energy
Stimulants
Children with this type of attachment are content to be on their own and will often ignore their caregiver when their caregiver returns.
Avoidant
These two terms describe the way that a child processes new information in regards to their schema.
Assimilation and accommodation
Axon
There are four phases of sleep; three are non-____ and one is ____ (the phase in which your body becomes paralyzed, your brain becomes active, and vivid dreams take place).
REM (rapid eye movement)
These drugs reduce pain and provide pleasurable feelings; they are also highly addictive and include heroine, morphine, and narcotic painkillers
Opiates
Children with this style of attachment panic without the presence of a caregiver, but they will also sometimes ignore the caregiver when the caregiver returns.
Anxious/ambivalent
Name the 3 levels of Kohlberg's moral reasoning (100 points per level)
Name the four parts of the limbic system (100 points per part)
Thalamus, hypothalamus, hippocampus, and amygdala
This theory of dreaming asserts that dreams are the brain’s attempt to make sense of random activity in the brainstem by combining it with memories
Activation-synthesis theory
This neurotransmitter, primarily targeted by alcohol, is also used in the treatment of anxiety due to its calming effects.
GABA
Parents with this type of style set incredibly high expectations and demands for their children and do not value or consider their child's feelings or emotions.
Authoritarian
According to Erik Erikson, what stage of life are most of you in?
Identity vs. Role Confusion
This part of your brain regulates your body temperature, controls emotions and hunger cues, and regulates hormones
Hypothalamus
Freud believed that dreams contained two levels: ________ content (what literally happens in the dream) and ________ content (what the dream means).
manifest; latent
Name five hallucinogens (100 points per hallucinogen).
Marijuana, MDMA, psilocybin mushrooms, LSD, peyote (mescaline)
Parents with this type of parenting styles set rules and expectations for their children, but they also respond well to their child's feelings and emotions.
Authoritative
In the Preoperational Stage of Piaget's theory, children are primarily egocentric. When children grow out of this, they develop the ability to feel empathy for others. What is the name of this theory?
Theory of Mind