The Nervous System
The decision making part of the brain, located in the frontal lobe, full develops at what age?
25
The most important quality of a hypothesis is that it is
testable.
Psychology research that involves new medications is what type of research study?
A clinical research study
An example of how the body returns to homeostasis:
thirst, sweating, deep breathing
The level of awareness we have of both internal and external events.
The main defining characteristics of the states of consciousness.
The area of the brain that regulates functions like breathing and heart-rate.
The hindbrain
The more ethical way to study effects of trauma on violence is: a survey vs. exposing participants to violence
Survey
Three characteristics that researchers should consider when recruiting participants for a study to make it applicable to larger groups:
Racial diversity, representation of genders, different age groups
Activities that are thought of as voluntary and involve sensory information traveling to the brain involve what part of the nervous system?
The somatic nervous system
Several psychologists have spent time studying dreams to determine their meaning and purpose. What conclusion psychologists have they come to at this point?
We currently do not know why we dream or what our dreams mean.
Damage to the spinal cord can result in...
The brain no longer being able to send and receive messages to the part of the body below the location of the damage.
When wwo variables have a predictable relationship with one another.
They have a correlation.
Growth hormone is produced here.
The pituitary gland.
The idea that the brain may be able to repair itself after being damaged.
Neuroplasticity
blocking pain receptors and increasing the amount of dopamine in the brain.
What is used to send messages from one nerve cell to the other?
Following a group of people from kindergarten until high school graduation is an example of what type of study?
Longitudinal
The likelihood that a person will develop a mental health disorder depends on whether they inherited particular genes and whether they were raised in a healthy environment.
Epigenetics
Our appetite is regulated in this part of our brain...
Hypothalamus
True or False: During meditation, you have a more conscious awareness of internal and external stimuli than you do during sleep.
True.
Neurotransmitters move across the _________ to move from one neuron to the next.
Synaptic Cleft
A researcher sits in a store to observe what people by, without them knowing they are there. This is an example of what type of research?
naturalistic observation
An unexpected change in a gene that permanently alters how it is expressed.
Glands produce...
hormones
Why are opioid overdoses often deadly?
They decrease respiration rates.