Personality & Disorders
This disorder involves persistent feelings of sadness and a loss of interest.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
These are the chemical messengers that cross synaptic gaps to transmit signals between neurons.
What are neurotransmitters?
The feeling of displeasure, being very irritated, or annoyed.
Anger
The human brain stops developing entirely after early childhood
False, The brain, particularly the prefrontal cortex, continues to develop into the mid-20s
The three main steps in memory, in order, are encoding, storage, and this.
Retrieval
This is the most popular, non-medical approach to treating mental health disorders.
What is psychotherapy (or psychoanalysis)?
The physical feeling of hot, flushed skin, or a racing heart often indicates this emotion.
Anger or fear
A feeling experienced when fearing something bad will happen.
Scared/Afraid
The average human brain weighs approximately 3 pounds
True
This type of memory has a limited capacity and can only hold about 7 (plus or minus 2) pieces of information.
What is short-term memory (or working memory)?
This disorder is characterized by persistent, unreasonable fear of a specific object or situation.
What is a phobia?
This is the name for the reaction that occurs when a stressor involves danger, preparing you to fight or run.
Fight or flight
A feeling of sadness combined with longing, often triggered by past experiences.
Nostalgia
Neurons are physically connected to each other, forming a continuous chain.
False (They communicate across a gap called a synapse).
This term refers to the fading of memory traces over time.
What is decay?
This term refers to a person's unique and relatively consistent pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving.
What is personality?
The largest part of the brain, responsible for thinking, feeling, and voluntary movement.
What is the cerebrum?
Feeling ashamed or embarrassed because of your actions
Guilty
Brain size alone determines intelligence
False
This type of long-term memory is for automatic skills and habits, like riding a bike.
This disorder is characterized by emotional volatility, unstable relationships, and a lack of well-defined self-image.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
This nervous system activates the body during emotional arousal, such as increasing heart rate.
The sympathetic nervous system
A state of feeling light, bright, and cheerful.
Joy/Happiness
Negative reinforcement is the same thing as punishment.
False (Negative reinforcement increases a behavior, while punishment decreases it).
This "brain center" is crucial for transferring new explicit memories into long-term storage.
What is Maintenance Rehearsal?