Stress
The negative stress response often affects negative psychological and physical reactions.
What is Distress?
Nerve cells that provide communication through the body.
What are Neurons?
The central nervous system consists of these 2 parts.
What are the Brain and Spinal Cord?
Name the four lobes of the brain.
What are the Frontal, Parietal, Temporal, and Occipital lobes?
The research method in which researchers observe participants in their natural settings.
What is the Naturalistic Method?
The inability to change one's beliefs despite receiving new information/facts. Once formed, only compelling evidence can change one's mind.
What is Belief Perserverance?
A positive form of stress that benefits health, motivation, performance, and emotional well-being.
What is Eustress?
This part of the neuron receives impulses and sends them to the cell body.
What is a Dendrite?
What is the Peripheral Nervous System?
This brain structure connects the right and left hemispheres of the brain and allows them to communicate.
What is the Corpus Callosum?
What is a correlation?
The relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system. Includes knowledge, skills, and experiences
What is Long-term Memory?
Any stress that is experienced for a long time.
What is Chronic Stress?
This part of the neuron carries messages away from the cell body.
What is the Axon?
This autonomic nervous system part prepares the body for action through the “fight-or-flight” syndrome.
What is the Sympathetic Nervous System?
This area of the brain is linked to speech/producing language.
What is Broca's area?
The correlation in which one variable increases the other variable decreases.
What is a negative correlation?
A logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem. Contrasts with the use of heuristics.
What is an algorithm?
An event or situation that causes stress. Any experience that threatens homeostasis.
What are Stressors?
This part of the neuron insulates and protects the axon.
What is the Myelin Sheath?
This part of the autonomic nervous system slows down organ and gland activity to conserve the body’s energy and refuel the body again.
What is the Parasympathetic Nervous System?
The wrinkled part of the brain; controls mental processes such as thought.
What is the Cerebral Cortex?
An essential part of all research ethics. Participants should be informed of details of the study including a full explanation of the hypothesis being tested, procedures to deceive participants and the reason(s) why it was necessary to deceive them.
What is debriefing?
The gradual acquisition of skills as a result of practice, or "knowing how" to do things
What is Procedural Memory?
The function of this hormone is to prepare the body for action in response to stress, and among its effects are an increase in blood pressure and an increase in blood sugar.
What is Cortisol?
The junction between the axon terminals of one neuron and the dendrites of another neuron.
What is the Snaptic Gap or Synapse?
This nervous system regulates the body’s vital functions. Ex: heartbeat, breathing, digestion, & blood pressure.
What is the Autonomic Nervous System?
The lower portion of the brain that controls vital functions, heart rate, respiration & balance.
What is the Hindbrain?
Each university or institution has this. They are in charge of reviewing research studies to ensure that they comply with applicable regulations, meet commonly accepted ethical standards, follow institutional policies, and adequately protect research participants.
What is the Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
Our tendency to recall best the last and first items in a list
What is the Serial Positioning Effect?