The idea that genetics and body chemistry are a major influence on behavior.
What is Nature?
100
Choosing to run away from a danger
What is flight
100
Sends electrical signals throughout the body that relate to events and tells the body what is going on/what to do.
What is the Nervous system
100
The part of the brain that focuses on logic and the tasks currently engaged in.
What is the left hemisphere?
100
Psychology is the study of _________ and __________
What is behavior and mental process.
200
The real question in the nature vs nurture debate
What is which controls your behavior more.
200
Responding quickly and violently to a dangerous situation
What is fight?
200
Sends chemicals throughout the body that tells different organs and glands to begin operating or to cease.
What is the Endocrine System
200
The part of the brain that works creatively and focuses on multi-tasking/awareness.
What is the right hemisphere of the brain?
200
This part of the nervous system calms the body after action.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system
300
The idea that your surroundings influence your behavior.
What is Nurture.
300
the reason why humans developed and passed on the fight v. flight capability.
What is survival
300
The part of the nervous system that controls voluntary muscle movement
What is the Somatic Nervous System?
300
What connects the two hemisphere of the brain to one another?
What is the Corpus Callosum?
300
What your central nervous system is comprised of.
What is the brain and spine?
400
The use of which types of people are useful in studying the Nature vs. Nurture debate.
What are Identical Twins
400
The part of the nervous system that kicks into gear when faced with a fight v. flight situation
What is Autonomic or Sympathetic?
400
What the nerve endings found all around your body make-up.
What is the peripheral nervous system?
400
The portion of the brain that makes people human. The part that gives people personalities. (Think Phineas Gage)
What is the Frontal Lobe?
400
What ADHD stands for
What is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder?
500
The transmission of characteristics from parents to children.
What is heredity?
500
In the modern world, situations that cause the fight v. flight response end up leaving people ________. Because fighting or fleeing is inappropriate.
What is frozen?
500
When the Autonomic nervous system is activated in a fight v. flight moment, the _______ gland is activated to release a particular hormone and prepare the body for action.
What is adrenal?
500
The hemisphere of your brain that sees things out of your left eye.
What is the right hemisphere?
500
Someone who is known to be extremely artistic, outgoing, social, but struggles with math and keeping organized most likely has a dominant__________