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Neural Transmission
Chemicals
Systems
Stress
Learning
100
made up of specific structures; dendrites, cell body, axon, and terminal buttons
What is a Neuron?
100
Associated with motor movement and alertness; lack of it is associated with Parkinson's disease, an overabundance of it is associated with schizophrenia
What is Dopamine?
100
Controls the automatic functions of the human body - heart, lungs, internal organs, glands, and so on. Controls responses to stress - the fight or flight response. Divided into two categories: the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.
What is the Autonomic Nervous System?
100

A stimulus (internal or external) that prompts the stress response.

What is a stressor?

100

The three general approaches to learning.

What are behaviourist approaches, social-cognitive approaches and multimodal system of knowledge?

200
Contains the nucleus and other parts of the cell needed to sustain its life.
What is the Cell Body or Soma?
200
Neurotransmitter associated with mood control and memory; lack of it is associated with clinical depression
What is Serotonin?
200
Mobilizes our body to respond to stress. Part of the nervous system that carries messages to control systems of the organs, glands, and muscles that direct the body's response to stress.
What is the Sympathetic Nervous System?
200

A form of stress characterised by a negative psychological state.

What is Distress?

200

Traditional lands of a particular language of cultural group, including both geographical boundaries and the spiritual, emotional, and intellectual connections to and within it.

What is country?

300
Space between the terminal buttons of one neuron and the dendrites of the next neuron
What is a Synapse?
300
Neurons that take information from the senses to the brain; responsible for transmitting neural impulses from the rest of the body to the brain
What are Sensory Neurons?
300
Responsible for slowing down the body after a stress response. Carries messages to the stress response system that causes the body to slow down.
What is the Parasympathetic Nervous System?
300

A hormone that helps to energise the body by inducing the release of glucose and a rise in blood-sugar levels.

What is cortisol?

300

Involves learning a voluntary behaviour, is active and requires a consequence.

How does Operant Conditioning differ from Classical conditioning?

400
Wirelike structure ending in the terminal buttons that extends from the cell body
What is an Axon?
400

The main inhibitory neurotransmitter in the nervous system

What is GABA?

400
Controls voluntary muscle movements. The motor cortex of the brain sends impulses to this system which controls the muscles that allow us to move.
What is the Somatic Nervous System?
400

The first substage of the alarm reaction stage involving decreased bodily arousal for a brief period of time following the initial exposure to a stressor.

What is the Shock stage?

400

Being indirectly conditioned by watching someone else's experiences.

What is vicarious learning?

500
Fatty covering around the axon of some neurons that speeds neural impulses.
What is the Myelin Sheath?
500

A chemical molecule that has an effect on multiple postsynaptic neurons.

What are neuromodulators?

500
All of the nerves in your body other than the brain and spinal cord nerves; all the nerves not encased in bone. This system is divided into two categories: the somatic and the autonomic nervous systems.
What is the Peripheral Nervous System?
500

the longest cranial nerve that connects the gut and the brain, enabling them to communicate..

What is the vagal nerve?

500

They are perceived positively, there are similarities, they are familiar, the behaviour is visible and can be imitated.

According to Bandura, when are we more likely to imitate a model?