Primitive Brain
This brain structure connects the emotions of fear or aggression to our memories.
What is the amygdala?
If you are sweating and breathing quickly in response to the environment, this nervous system is likely active.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
The cortex has this many lobes.
What is eight (8)?
These are the "listening" parts of the neuron.
What are the dendrites?
If a particular behavior helped our ancestors survive in their environment, we call it:
What is an "adaptive" behavior?
This part of the brain stem helps coordinates our movements and our facial nerves.
What is the pons?
This hormone will help to activate your "fight or flight" response.
What is adrenalin?
These lobes, located on the top of the head, have association areas for math and spatial thinking.
What are the parietal lobes?
This inhibitory neurotransmitter's job is to calm the brain.
What is GABA (Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid)?
These two evolutionary factors determine if an organism's genes go on to the next generation.
What are survival and reproduction?
If you feel thirsty, this part of the brain is doing its job.
What is the hypothalamus?
This is the other name for motor neurons.
What are efferent neurons?
What is the sensory cortex?
This type of medicine inhibits the action of a neurotransmitter.
What is an antagonist?
This type of psychologist will be concerned about all the things that make humans alike.
What is an evolutionary psychologist?
Did you remember that this part of your brain helps make long-term memories?
What is the Hippocampus?
This is the part of the nervous system that has all of your motor and sensory neurons.
What is the somatic nervous system?
Someone with this type of aphasia will have difficulty forming spoken words.
What is Broca's aphasia?
This is the other name for the neural impulse.
What is the action potential?
Identical twins are often studies by these type of psychologists.
Who are behavior geneticists?
If you damage this part of your brain stem, your heart may stop beating.
What is the medulla?
This is the "master gland"; it is located in your brain.
What is the pituitary gland.
Severing this part of the brain will prevent the right and left hemispheres from communicating with each other.
What is the corpus collosum?
Not having enough of this neurotransmitter is associated with Parkinson's disease.
What is dopamine?
If 97% of the differences in "extroversion" seen in a population are due to genetic factors, we would say that extroversion is a highly ___ trait.
What is "heritable"?