Neurobio A
Deep in the temporal lobe, this is essential for emotional processing, particularly relevant in anxiety disorders, PTSDD, and emotional dysregulation.
What is the Amygdala?
Higher cognitive functions such as decision-making, planning, reasoning, and working memory; controls social behavior, impulse inhibition, and personality expression.
What is Prefrontal Cortex
a region in the brain associated with the fight or flight response, as well as controlling emotions like fear and anger
What is the amygdala?
Measure of central tendency taken by averaging scores
What is the mean?
Credited as the founder of psychoanalysis
Who is Sigmund Freud?
What is the Hippocampus?
Voluntary motor control of skeletal muscles. The motor cortex maps the body's muscles in a way where each area controls specific body parts.
What is the motor cortex?
the brain region responsible for converting short term memory into long term memory.
What is the hippocampus?
The effect to which one's expecations infleunce the results of an experiment.
What is the placebo effect?
Sleep stage during which vivid dreaming occurs
What is REM sleep?
Deep within the cerebral hemispheres, they are involved in movement regulation, learning routines, and habit formation--integral in reward processing.
What is the Basal Ganglia?
Crucial for language comprehension, understanding spoken and written language is left to this area of the superior temporal gyrus.
What is the Wernicke's Area?
The brain region responsible for regulating breathing and heart beat.
What is the medulla?
Research design in which a group of participants are studied for a long range of time.
What is a longitudinal study?
Type of drug that slows neural activity, additionally associated with poor judgment and memory loss.
What is Alcohol?
At the posterior of the brain, this is responsible for coordination, balance, and fine motor skills.
What is the cerebellum?
Processes sensory information related to touch, pain, temperature, and proprioception--important for spatial awareness and body position. This is located in the parietal lobe behind the postcentral gyrus.
What is Somatosensory Cortex?
Enables a person to control physiological responses that are normally involuntary
What is the biofeedback?
Research technique used to minimize effects of confounding variables
What is random assignment?
What is the function of dynorphins?
What is pain modulation and emotional control?
What is the Ventral Tegmental Area (VTA)?
Part of the diencephalon, this regulates vital bodily functions like hunger, thirst, temperature, and hormonal control via the pituitary glad.
What is the hypothalamus?
A region in the hypothalamus that is responsible for regulating control over our circadian rhythms.
What is the superchiasmic nucleus?
Percentage of data that is included in the first and second standard deviations of a normal curve
What is 95%
when a quick succession of images in series create the illusion of movement. More specifically many recall this as the moving dot images.
What is the phi phenomenon?