Nervous System
Two major divisions of the human nervous system.
Central Nervous System and Peripheral Nervous System.
Times of special sensitivity to certain environmental factors that can shape an individual’s capacity for future typical development.
Critical Periods
Hormone regulated by the suprachiasmatic nucleus that is linked with sleepiness and is released when it is dark.
Melatonin
Anxiety disorder characterised by repetitive, unwanted thoughts that prompt an extreme urge to repeat a specific behaviour.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
A set of skills that enable effective living through paying attention in a specific way and reaching a level of acceptance about one’s life.
Mindfulness
Two subdivisions of the Peripheral Nervous System.
Somatic Nervous System and Autonomic Nervous System.
Optimal times for psychological development in certain
areas that begin and end more gradually.
Sensitive Periods
Hormone regulated by the suprachiasmatic nucleus that is linked with levels of altertness.
Cortisol
Anxiety disorder that develops following a distressing, significant or traumatic event and is characterised by intrusive thoughts about the incident.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
A mental state where a person is deeply focused on what they are doing, to the point that basic needs are ignored and they may be unaware of anything else.
Flow
Two branches of the Autonomic Nervous System.
Sympathetic Nervous System and Parasympathetic Nervous System.
A strong, close and emotional bond that develops between an infant and their caregiver and lasts for many years.
Attachment
Awareness of our own thoughts, feelings and perceptions (internal events) and our surroundings (external stimuli) at any given moment.
Consciousness
Mood disorder that includes alternating times of depression and mania (also called manic depression).
Bipolar Disorder
When a person does something for no apparent reward, but because they genuinely enjoy it or find it interesting.
Intrinsic Motivation
Transmits sensory information into the Central Nervous System and carries motor commands from the CNS to the skeletal muscles.
Somatic Nervous System.
Refers to the rapid formation of synapses that occurs between infancy and the end of adolescence.
Developmental Plasticity
An example of an altered state of consciousness.
Answers may include: Hyperarousal, Drowsiness Lucid Dreaming, Light Sleep, Minimally Conscious State, REM Sleep, Deep Sleep, General Anaesthesia, Vegetative State, Coma
Personality disorder characterised by extreme instability of moods and relationships with other people.
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
When a person does something to achieve a separate
outcome, such as receiving a reward or avoiding a negative consequence.
Extrinsic Motivation
Activates the 'fight-flight-freeze' response.
Sympathetic Nervous System.
The 5 stages in the development of the nervous system (100 points for each stage correctly recalled).
Proliferation, Migration, Circuit Formation, Synaptic Pruning, Myelination.
External (environmental) cues, such as light and dark, that influence the sleep-wake cycle.
Zeitgebers
Psychotic disorder that affects thoughts, emotions and behaviours and may cause people to withdraw and lose touch with reality.
Schizophrenia
Structure within the limbic system that receives all sensory information and relays it to different parts of the brain.