You Gotta Have Some Perspective in Life
This psychological perspective emphasizes the role of unconscious conflicts and early childhood experiences in shaping behavior and personality
What is Psychoanalytic?
True or False: When we sleep, our brains shut down to rest and recharge.
What is False?
Coffee is one of these because it increases alertness and energy levels by speeding up certain processes in the body
What is a stimulant?
This sleep disorder causes people to instantly fall into REM sleep... sometimes at inappropriate moments.
What is narcolepsy?
The Hippocampus is the part of the brain that is primarily involved with this process... come on... I know you know it!
What is memory formation?
This perspective emphasizes the importance of understanding the individual as a whole, including their subjective experiences, feelings, and perceptions.
What is Humanistic?
This rhythm implies that humans are usually awake and active while the sun is up...
What is Circadian Rhythm?
A category of drugs that alter perception, mood, and consciousness, often causing people to sense something that isn't really there.
What are hallucinogens?
Dreams occur during this stage of the sleep cycle...
What is REM?
Known as the "little brain", this brain structure is responsible for balance, coordination, and fine muscle movements.
What is the cerebellum?
Psychologists associated with this perspective study the adaptive functions of behavior and the role of natural selection in shaping mental processes
What is Evolutionary?
Freud's iceberg metaphor was used to describe our consciousness. He thought that this part of our consciousness was the bulk of the iceberg and all of it was under the water.
What is our Unconscious Mind?
This is a drug that prevents the reabsorption of neurotransmitters back into the neuron's synaptic cleft is called this.
What is a reuptake inhibitor?
This term refers to our body's natural clock that tends to align with that of the sun as it sets and rises...
What is circadian rhythm?
The human part of our brains that filter out the amygdala's responses is known as this...
What is the frontal lobe?
This perspective in psychology explores how people think, process information, and solve problems, emphasizing mental processes like perception, memory, and problem-solving
What is Congnitive?
This level of consciousness is what we hide from others...
What is our Subconscious/Preconscious Mind?
Alcohol is one of these drugs that slow down brain activity and nervous system functioning, often resulting in relaxation and sedation.
What are depressants?
In a given night's sleep, our brains put our bodies through 3-4 of these which last roughly 90 minutes in order to restore our bodies.
What are sleep cycles?
When I hit this part of my head I tend to see "stars", that's because that is where the occipital lobe (visual processing) is located
What is the back?
Focused on observable behaviors and the environmental factors that influence them
What is Behavioral?
Daydreaming is somewhat like dissociation, dissociation means to...
What is disconnect from reality?
These substances block or inhibit the effects of neurotransmitters in the brain.
What is an antagonist?
This theory on dreaming states that the purpose of dreams is to sort through and forget any unecessary events of the previous day
What is the information processing theory?
When severed, this brain structure prevents our brain hemispheres from communicating with one another
What is the corpus callosum?