Nutrition
Hormones and Gender Differences
Brain Structures and Neurons
Synapses and Drugs
Mismatch
100
Necessary organic molecules that your body consumes in small amounts and don't provide energy.
What are vitamins.
100
Chemical signals secreted by glands that alter gene function in a target cell somewhere else in the body.
What are hormones.
100
Fatty coating around the axon of a neuron that insulates and speeds up the signal.
What is myelin sheath.
100
People that have the long dopamine receptor gene (DRD4), and therefore have a preferences for spicy foods and drug use.
What are risk takers.
100
When the environment changes too quickly for natural selection to adapt an organism immediately, causing instincts to lead to inappropriate outcomes.
What is mismatch.
200
Type of fat that has double bonds in its hydrocarbon tail and is typically liquid at room temperature.
What are unsaturated fats.
200
Hormone that improves object memory, concentration, and promotes brain cell growth.
What is estrogen.
200
Little organic molecules that bind with post-synaptic receptors and directly affect ion-channel proteins.
What are neurotransmitters.
200
Excitatory neurotransmitter that is related to addiction.
What is dopamine.
200
World to which we have become adapted.
What is the environment of evolutionary adaptedness (EEA).
300
The energy expenditure necessary to keep a resting animal alive.
What is basal metabolic rate (BMR).
300
When a male invests in offspring that are not genetically his own.
What is cuckholdry.
300
A self-propagating, all-or-nothing change in the membrane potential of a neuron that travels down an axon.
What is an action potential.
300
Neurotransmitter that affects appetite, sleep, anxiety, and mood (is usually inhibitory).
What is serotonin.
300
Belief that the things that are "natural" are good.
What is the naturalistic fallacy.
400
Simple sugars that contain 3-6 carbon atoms and provide quick energy release.
What are monosaccharides.
400
Gene that, when present on the Y chromosome, causes the undifferentiated gonads of a fetus to becomes testes.
What is the testes determining factor (TDF).
400
The physiological mechanisms by which something occurs.
What is proximate causation.
400
Drug that binds to re-uptake receptors and blocks them, causing dopamine to remain in the synapse.
What is cocaine.
400
Tool our genes use to induce us toward behaviors benefitting them.
What is happiness.
500
Organ in the digestion process that absorbs most of the nutrients.
What is the small intestine.
500
Mating system that results in high variance in male reproductive success and low variance in female reproductive success.
What is polygyny.
500
Nodes on the axon where sodium and potassium influx occurs.
What are the Nodes of Ranvier.
500
A chemical produced as a by-product of cellular metabolism ("cellular exhaust").
What is adenosine.
500
Being able to make connections only if associations are properly paired.
What is constrained learning.
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