Can you recall?
Activated memory that holds a few items briefly, such as 7 digits of a phone number while dialing, before the information is stored or forgotten.
What is short-term memory?
Chemical messengers that are manufactured by the endocrine glands that travel through the bloodstream and affects other tissues.
What are hormones?
Starting at about 4 months old, the stage of speech development, in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds.
What is the bobbing stage?
A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior.
What is motivation?
How the body and brain enable emotions, memories, and sensory experiences.
What is the biological approach?
The relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system includes knowledge, skills, and experiences.
What is long-term memory?
A pair of glands that sit above the kidneys and secretes epinephrine and norepinephrine.
What are the Adrenal Glands?
In language, the smartest distinctive sound unit.
What is a phoneme?
The idea that psychological need creates an aroused tension state that motivates an organism to satisfy the need.
What is drive-reduction theory?
How the natural selection of traits promoted the survival of genes.
What is the evolutionary approach?
Organized items into familiar, manageable units, and often occurs automatically.
What is chunking?
A gland that regulates growth and controls other endocrine glands.
What is the Pituitary Gland?
In language, what is the smallest unit that carries meaning.
What is a morpheme?
The body's resting rate of energy.
What is basal metabolic rate?
How behavior springs form unconscious drives and conflicts.
A neural center that is located in the limbic system and helps process explicit memories for storage.
This hormone regulates chemicals in the brain and enhances well being.
What is Serotonin?
What is telegraphic speech?
What is bulimia nervosa?
How we learn observable responses.
In psychoanalytic theory the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories?
What is repression?
Hormones secreted by the pancreas to regulate ones blood sugar.
What is Insulin?
Part of the brain that controls language and expression.
What is the Broca's area?
Significantly binge-eating episodes following by distress, disgust, or guilt, but without the compensatory purging fasting, or excessive exercise that marks bulimia nervosa.
What is binge-eating disorder?
How we meet our needs for love and acceptance and achieve self-fulfillment.