Neuroanatomy
The four lobes of the brain.
What is Frontal, Occipital, Temporal, Parietal.
The state of being awake and aware of one's surroundings.
What is Consciousness?
Doing a task for the satisfaction rather than for the result such as a reward. Comes from within.
What is Intrinsic Motivation?
Five senses.
What is hearing, vision, taste, smell, & touch?
Pituitary, Pineal, Adrenal, Ovaries (female), Testes (Male) are part of what system?
What is the Endocrine System?
An organ of the Limbic System in the brain that regulates emotion, memory, & autonomic nervous system. Primarily associated with memory.
What is the Hippocampus?
Differences between Wakefulness & Awareness.
Wakefulness refers to alertness or extent to which we are awake while Awareness refers to monitoring of information from the environment and from one's thoughts.
The differences between Needs and Drives.
Drives are the state of tension produced by the need; such as getting thirsty. Needs are a lack of something necessary such as food or water.
Receptors sensitive to mechanical stimuli (Response to physical movement in the receptor). Such as the sound waves in the ears, or touching the skin.
What are Mechanoreceptors?
The scientific study of the effects drugs have on mood, sensation, thinking, and behavior.
What is Psychopharmacology?
Where is the Myelin Sheath located on the neuron?
Surrounding the Axon.
The ability to focus awareness on specific features in the environment while ignoring others.
What is Selective Attention?
What are the four basic emotions?
Happiness, Sadness, Fear, & Anger
What is the difference between Absolute & Difference Thresholds?
Absolute Threshold is the smallest amount of energy we can detect. Difference Threshold is the smallest change in stimulus we can detect.
What waves mainly occur while you are awake?
What are Beta Waves?
Where is the reticular formation located within the brain?
What is the brain stem?
A process that enables the maintenance of response persistence and continuous effort over extended periods of time.
What is Sustained Attention?
Emotions based on how we see ourselves and perceive others as seeing us.
What are Self-Conscious Emotions?
Predicts how and when we detect a signal amid background noises.
What is Signal Detection?
Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, Anti-Anxiety, Stimulants, & Mood Stabilizers are the five main types of what?
What are Psychopharmacology drugs?
Describe the difference between Dopamine and Serotonin.
Dopamine is the neurotransmitter that produces the feelings of want and pleasure while Serotonin regulates mood and happiness.
A state in which a patient shows signs of intentional behavior (such as visually tracking a person), but can’t communicate.
What is Minimal Consciousness?
Drinking a bottle of water in order to reduce the drive and satisfy the need.
What are Incentives?
A more scientific name for the eardrum, transmits sound vibrations to the Cochlea.
What is Tympanic Membrane?
What is the differences between Comparative & Evolutionary Psychology?
Comparative psychology is the area of psychology that studies the similarities and differences in the behavior of organisms. Evolutionary psychology is the branch of psychology that studies human behavior by asking what adaptive problems it may have solved for our early ancestors.