Positive Psych
A better term for evaluating success and satisfaction in life, as happiness is defined differently for everyone.
What is ‘well being’?
These are the three main parts of a Neuron.
What are the axon, cell body and dendrites?
The name for the electrical signal that travels the length of an axon.
What is Action Potential?
The last region of the brain to fully develop.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
These are the 4 lobes of the Cerebral Cortex.
What are Frontal, Parietal, Temporal and Occipital?
24 different aspects of people identified across cultures that are associated with success and well being in life.
What are character strengths?
The place where signals can build up in a Neuron, eventually sending an action potential.
What is the axon hillock?
The chemical signals that pass between axon terminals and dendrites.
What are neurotransmitters?
As brains develop, they don’t necessarily grow larger, but these three things happen.
What are pruning, myelination and strengthening connections?
The first of these areas controls the making of speech, while the second facilitates the understanding of speech.
What are Broca's and Wernicke's areas
This kind of ‘treadmill’ represents a cycle of constantly wanting something ‘more’ or ‘different’ in order to find happiness.
What is a hedonic treadmill?
The overall nervous system is divided into two parts, this part is primarily responsible for transmitting signals to and from far away parts of the body.
What is the peripheral nervous system?
Tolerance to a drug is achieved when the former are lost, and latter are gained in a synapse.
What are receptors and reuptake transporters?
The three main regions of the brain that develop and change most during the teen years.
What are the prefrontal cortex, limbic system and corpus callosum?
The feature that separates the cerebellum from the cerebrum.
What is the Transverse Cerebral Fissure.
The idea of happiness is often broken down into two philosophies, this one refers to feelings of satisfaction gained from utilizing your character strengths and qualities central to your identity.
What is Eudaimonic?
The first are the nerve bundles that control homeostasis, the second control voluntary movement.
What are autonomic and somatic nerves?
The most common excitatory neurotransmitter in reward pathways.
What is dopamine?
This sequence of brain development is often described as “driving a car with a huge engine, but without any brakes.”
What is the limbic system developing before the prefrontal cortex?
These are five major parts of the limbic system.
What are Thalamus, Hypothalamus, Amygdala, Hippocampus and Limbic Lobe?
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These are the five aspects of the PERMA model of well being.
What are Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning and Accomplishment?
These are the three main shapes or structural types of neurons.
What are unipolar, multipolar and bipolar neurons?
The membrane proteins blocked by Bipolar Medication to calm electrical activity in the brain.
What are voltage gated channels or Sodium and Calcium channels?
The consequences of this process create the ability of the teen brain to specialize, but also gives it the highest risk of drug addiction.
What are the consequences of synaptic pruning?
The first is comprised mainly of white matter, while the second is mostly gray matter.
What are the Cerebrum and Cerebral Cortex made out of?