Stress Basics
The hormone most commonly associated with the body's stress response.
What is cortisol?
According to Piaget, children in this stage believe that inanimate objects have feelings.
What is the preoperational stage?
A variation in a species that enhances chances of survival and reproduction.
What is adaptation?
The type of sleep where dreaming most commonly occurs.
What is REM sleep?
Twins originating from a single fertilized egg, sharing 100% of their genes.
What are monozygotic twins?
This type of stress can be beneficial and acts as a motivating force.
What is eustress?
This term describes the genetic makeup of an organism.
What is genotype?
The process through which traits beneficial for survival and reproduction become more common in successive generations.
What is natural selection?
A heightened awareness of sensations and thoughts without external distractions.
What is meditation?
The functional segments of DNA that carry hereditary information.
What are genes?
The system activated in the body when faced with immediate danger, commonly known as "fight or flight."
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
The observable characteristics of an organism.
What is phenotype?
A situation where previously beneficial traits become less advantageous due to changes in the environment.
What is evolutionary mismatch?
A significant alteration in mood, feelings, and perceptions, often induced by drugs, trauma, or certain medical conditions.
What is hallucination?
Twins originating from two different eggs, sharing about 50% of their genes.
What are dizygotic twins?
This psychologist proposed the General Adaptation Syndrome model which includes stages like alarm, resistance, and exhaustion.
Who is Hans Selye?
Nightmares and sexual dreams most commonly occur in this category of sleep mentation.
What are ordinary dreams?
A cognitive understanding, during the preoperational stage, that quantity remains the same despite changes in shape or configuration.
What is conservation?
Sleep stages 1 through 4 are collectively known as this.
What is NREM sleep?
The proportion of observed variance in a particular trait within a population that can be attributed to genetics.
What is heritability?
A psychological phenomenon where one feels unable to change or escape their stressful situation, often caused by repeated exposure to uncontrollable stressors.
What is learned helplessness?
The understanding that objects continue to exist even when they are out of sight.
What is object permanence?
Temporary changes in one's usual pattern of mental experiences and sensations.
What are altered states of consciousness?
The aspect of consciousness that integrates various perceptions into a single holistic experience.
What is unity?
The genetic variants found at a particular location on a chromosome.
What are alleles?