Consciousness
This area of the brain is known to release a hormone known as Melatonin, which helps us fall asleep and regulate our sleep/wake cycle.
What is the Pineal Gland?
The name of any general stimuli that may give us stress.
What is a stressor?
The part of the neuron that is involved with receiving messages from the past neuron.
What are dendrites?
The template and guideline book psychologists and psychiatrists use to diagnose and treat disorders.
What is the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual)?
A process or type of learning where we associate stimuli to anticipate events or reaction.
What is classical conditioning?
The stage of sleep where dreams occur.
What is REM (Raid-Eye Movement) Sleep?
List and describe the three stages of the General Adaptation Syndrome.
What is the Alarm phase, where a stressor comes to us and our stress level increases?
What is the Resistance phase, where our stress level remains constant over time?
What is the Exhaustion phase, where we decrease in stress because we solved the stressor or burned out?
The fatty substance that wraps around the neuron to help speed the processing of messages across the neuron.
What is myelin?
The disorder in which the individual undergoes intense fear and anxiety where it may be difficult to escape or seek help.
What is Agoraphobia?
Removing an undesirable object to increase behavior
What is Negative Reinforcement?
A disorder where the paralysis that occurs during REM-sleep does not happen, causing movement while dreaming.
What is REM-Sleep Behavior Disorder?
The nervous system that contains our Brain and Spinal Cord?
What is the Central Nervous System?
The neurotransmitter involved with increasing overall mood and happiness.
What is serotonin?
A disorder in which an individual consistently worries about their next panic attack, which then leads them to their next panic attack, resulting in this cycle.
What is a panic disorder?
Removing a desireable object to decrease behavior
What is Negative Punishment?
A disorder where breathing stops during sleep, causing the individual to gasp for air and lose sleep.
What is Sleep Apnea?
The nervous system that helps with our voluntary movement.
What is the Somatic Nervous System?
List and describe the lobes of the brain.
Frontal lobe - Helps with logic and logic processing
Temporal lobe - Helps with hearing and auditory processing
Parietal lobe - helps with sensory memory, feeling, and touching
Occipital lobe - helps with vision
A disorder where there is a continuous state of worry, regardless of whether there is a stressor or not.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
Provide an example of Classical Conditioning.
Neutral stimulus - Bell
Unconditioned Stimulus - Food
Conditioned Stimulus - Saliva
Conditioned Stimulus - Bell
Conditioned Response - Saliva
A disorder where an individual will suddenly fall asleep during major activities.
What is Narcolepsy?
Describe the two Nervous Systems that branches off of the Autonomic Nervous System, which is involved with our involuntary and automatic movement.
What is the Sympathetic Nervous System, our nervous system that is involved with the fight-or-flight response?
What is the Parasympathetic Nervous System, our nervous system that is involved with the rest and digest response?
Describe Broca's area, Broca's aphasia, Wernicke's area, and Wernicke's aphasia.
Broca's area - An area of the brain that assists in producing fluent speaking and language. Damage to this area causes broken speech and broken patterns.
Wernicke's area - An area of the brain that assists in comprehending language and producing meaningful speech. Damage to this area causes a production of speech that does not make sense (ex. "My apple and grassed the toaster to the rooster-man").
A disorder in which individual experiences intrusive and unwanted thoughts, and there is this need to engage in repetitive behaviors.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Provide an Example of all methods in Operant Conditioning.
Positive Reinforcement - Candy for washing dishes
Negative Reinforcement - Exempt from the exam for good behavior
Positive Punishment - Yelling for stealing a cookie
Negative Punishment - Taking the phone away from sneaking out