Brain
This part of the brainstem controls heartbeat and breathing
medulla
Viewed people as “tabula rasa”
John Locke
Cocaine is what kind of drug?
stimulant
Length of a sleep cycle
90 minutes
Involuntary associative learning
Classical conditioning
Involved in emotions of fear and aggression
amygdala
Pioneered classical conditioning
Ivan Pavlov
DO agonists block receptors or stimulate receptors?
Stimulate
Hunger arousing hormone that is increased due to sleep deprivation
ghrelin
An irrational fear
Phobia
Helps with balance and coordination
cerebellum
Emphasized the importance of innate expressions of emotion in communication and species survival
Charles Darwin
How do depressants affect the body?
Stage where Night terrors occur
Behavior followed by something pleasant will be reinforced
Processes visual info
occipital lobe
Pioneered research on split-brain
Roger Sperry
Mescaline is what kind of drug?
Sleep disorder involves sudden and uncontrollable sleep attacks causing the person to fall into REM sleep
narcolepsy
giving a response that is somewhat different from the response originally learned to that stimulus
Response Generalization
Neural system includes hippocampus, amygdala, and hypothalamus, and is associated with emotions and drives.
Limbic system
Client-centered therapy
Carl rogers
What neurotransmitters do stimulants affect?
dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine
Theory that dreams are the brain’s attempt to make sense of random neural activity
activation synthesis
The condition of apathy or helplessness created experimentally by subjecting an organism to unavoidable trauma.
Learned Helplessness