Electric Wave
This coating insulates the neuron to speed up transmission.
What is myelin sheath?
This controls the basic body function such as heart beat and breathing
What is the medulla?
This is the base of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
What are physiological needs?
Type of motivation in which a person performs an action because it leads to an outcome that is separate from the person.
What is extrinsic motivation?
What is affected by heavy drinking?
What is the cerebellum?
These bushy fibers of the post-synaptic neuron receive the chemical information
What are dendrites?
This influences aggression and fear in an individual
What is amygdala?
Responsible for spatial construction, face recognition, and nonverbal imagery
Right Hemisphere
This approach assumes that behavior arises from physiological needs and the push to satisfy those needs.
What is Drive-reduction Theory?
Events that one feels in control of generate feeling of increased or decreased stress?
What is decreased?
This is the brief electrical charge that travels down its axon
What is an action potential?
Sitting at the top of the brain stem this acts as the brain's sensory switchboard
What is the thalamus?
The area of the brain containing the medulla, pons, and cerebellum, which is perhaps the earliest part of the brain to evolve
What is the hindbrain?
Type of motivation in which a person performs an action because the act itself is rewarding or satisfying in some internal manner.
What is Intrinsic Motivation?
This stress hormone is secreted by the adrenal glands and helps boost our immune system
What is cortisol?
These carry messages from the body's tissue and sensory organs inward to the brain and spinal cord
What are sensory neuron or afferent neurons?
Sometimes referred to as the "little brain," this is responsible for balance and coordination.
What is cerebellum?
What is the master gland that triggers the endocrine system?
What is the Pituitary Gland?
This level includes the need to achieve, be competent, and gain approval and recognition.
What are Esteem Needs?
Seyle's attempt to explain hoe humans respond to stress
What is the General Adaptation Syndrome?
What parts of the nervous system controls the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system?
What is the Autonomic Nervous System?
The networks of neurons in the hindbrain, midbrain, and part of the forebrain whose primary function is to alert and arouse the higher parts of the brain
What is the reticular formation?
A process that measures the the actual functioning of the brain on a millisecond -by-millisecond basis, using more than two dozen electrodes placed strategically on the scalp
Electroencephalography (EEG) imaging
This theory states that people try to find the optimum level of tension by increasing or decreasing stimulation.
What is Arousal Theory?
What is aphasia?
Impairment of language, usually cause by left hemisphere damage either to Broca's area or to Wernicke's area.