Motivation
Spirituality
Social Expectations
Brain Chemistry
Miscellaneous Trivia
100

This neurochemical is responsible for the feeling of drive associated with being motivated.

What is dopamine?

100

An institutional/organizational structure built around spirituality is know as:

What is religion?

100

This is something you might define with someone you are forming a new relationship with.

What is a boundary?

100

This is the part of the brain where "smooth pathways" develop to create habits and behaviors.

What is white matter?

100

Before this building was SLO County Behavioral Health, it was this.

What is the general hospital?

200

This learned skill makes overcoming a lack of motivation towards a long term goal more attainable.

What is discipline?

200

These strategies/behaviors can help people engage with spirituality.

What is music, meditation, prayer, art, etc. 

200

These are concepts an individual holds as important or central to their identity.

What are values?

200

This is the part of the brain in charge of logical reasoning, decision making, and puzzles.

What is the prefrontal cortex?

200

Neurons travel along pathways in your brain at around this speed.

What is 250-350mph?

300

This is the formula your brain uses to calculate how much dopamine to release.

What is the Effort Equation? 

300
How we express spirituality is usually based on these experiences.
What are our parents, peers, culture, religious background, gender, etc. 
300

These are values on a larger socially accepted or cultural scale.

What are morals?

300

This term defines your brain's ability to grow and change over time.

What is neuroplasticity?

300

This important (and relevant) organ does not have pain receptors and can't experience pain.

What is the brain?

400

This strategy for breaking down long-term goals makes finding motivation and taking steps easier.

What is setting small goals?

400

Spirituality is, for many, the desire to engage in something _______________________.

What is bigger than themselves?

400

This term refers to a combination of social expectations, spiritual and religious practices, morals, values, and history.

What is culture?

400

This part of the brain functions as the "dopamine economy" and is a part of the prefrontal cortex.

What is the orbitofrontal cortex?

400

This neurotransmitter is triggered by laughter, social connection, and exercise. It works closely with adrenaline and dopamine.

What are endorphines?

500

This type of motivation is defined by an apparent absence of motivation but highlights the presence of drives and motivations that exist unconsciously. 

What is amotivation?

500

Spirituality can help us define these things about ourselves and how we view the world.

What are morals, values, right and wrong?

500

This psychological theory addresses how we form connections in early life and how this affects our style of relationship formation later in life.

What is attachment theory?

500

This material lines the smooth pathways along which neurons communicate.

What is myelin. 

500

This is the city where Ann Marie is on vacation.

What is Detroit?

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