A cluster of feelings of uneasiness, nervousness, tension, and dread of the future
What is Anxiety Disorder
100
The self appraisal or self monitoring of memory, it is an evaluation of how well we can remember
What is Metamemory
100
The long term memory, sometimes called remote memory
What is tertiary memory
100
Alzheimer's accounts for this percentage of organic brain disease
What is 70 percent
100
Two manifestations of organic brain disorders
What is delirium and dementia
200
A person obsessed with one act, such as washing the hands, walking back and forth across a room, looking for something, or touching something
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
200
Every memory we have starts as this
What is a sensory stimulus
200
This kind of memory shows little change with age, once information is stored in primary memory, people of all ages seem able to recall it
What is primary memory
200
This rises from problems with blood flow to the brain
What is vascular dementia
200
Was once labeled as senility and was thought to accompany normal aging
What is Dementia
300
A fear of being closed in
What is Claustrophobia
300
The process of evaluating the sensory information carried to the brain
What is Perception
300
This test measures specific skills to generalize about an all inclusive concept of intelligence
What is IQ tests
300
Defined as a short lasting emotional outburst characterized by anxiety, tears, aggressive behavior and swearing
What is catastrophic reaction
300
This disease affects close to 1 million individuals in the US and creates tremors and rigidity of movement
What is Parkinson's Disease
400
This person with this disorder feels sad, has low self-esteem, is lethargic, and believes that life is confusing, hopeless
What is Depression
400
The hardware of the mind
What is cognitive mechanics
400
When an individual can retrieve information from his memory storage, this is assumed to have occured
What is learning
400
Major symptoms of Alzheimer's are (list 3)
What is declines in cognitive functioning, disorientation, declines in self-care, and inappropriate social behavior such as violent outbursts
400
This is a rare disease that is inherited as a defective gene and ends like Alzheimer's with a total deterioration of memory and bodily functions
What is Huntington's Disease
500
These disorders are mood disorders and may include bipolar disorder, depression, and mood swings
What is Affective disorders
500
This is most often measured by a standardized test with many multiple choice items on vocabulary, reasoning, and the ordering of numbers and spaces
What is Intelligence
500
Pacing, anxiety, distraction, and meaningfulness of the material these factors affect
What is learning abilities
500
As a result of Alzheimer's the brain gradually
What is atrophies
500
This is less common than Alzheimer's disease and within a year, the cerebral cortex degenerates to a fatal point. Scientists suggest that an infectious agent (virus) causes it