Crackers
Brief intense episode of sweating, dizziness, quick heart beat, feeling of impending death.
Panic Attack
The question over if we have free will on ourselves or are our actions predetermined by something outside our control?
Free Will vs Determinism
disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and actions. The fear of your own thoughts.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
The question of whether our genes or the way we are raised has a bigger impact on how we turn out.
Nature vs Nurture
Eating disorder characterized by binging on high-calorie foods, and then purging.
Bulimia
And eating disorder characterized by the irrational fear of gaining weight and as a result, starving oneself.
Anorexia
Part of the brain that deals with impulses, fight/flight response, instincts of survival.
Lizard Brain
Type of learning where one makes a link between 2 stimuli as they occur together very often.
Classical conditioning
Higher thinking abilities, moral and ethics, ability to be self aware.
Monkey Brain
The condition of feeling uneasy or worried about what may happen
Anxiety
An approach to raising kids characterized by high nurturance, communication and rewards, but little discipline and control.
Permissive Parenting
Neurons
Chemicals that are transmitted from one neuron to the other
Neurotransmitters
Parenting style that is characterized by emotional warmth, high standards, consequences that fit with the misbehavior, clear expectations, inclusion in decision making.
Authoritative parenting.
The difference between whether something is caused by something or if two things just happen at the same time
Causation vs Correlation
Deviation, dysfunction, distress.
What determine if it's a disorder.
Basic abilities like perceptions, and decision making.
Mouse Brain
Leaning based on a the consequences of responding. Like a shock, or a loud noise, or a treat.
Operant conditioning.
Recurrent unexpected panic attacks
Panic Disorder
Type of attachment where the child is clingy, doesn't want to explore on her own, is super sad when the mother leaves the room, and the mother doesn't comfort her.
Anxious Attachment
Fear of situations that involve crowds and open spaces
Agoraphobia
Getting information though the five senses and focusing on what actually exists.
Sensing
Irrational fears of specific objects of situations
Specific Phobias
Mood disorder marked by extreme happiness, hyperactivity and wildly optimistic state.
Mania
Depression that recurs during the seasons with less day light.
Seasonal Affective Disorder