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Neurons
Do you mind?
Time to sleep
Hugs not Drugs
Womb to Tomb
100
Neurons that carry outgoing information from the brain and spinal cord to the muscles and glands.
What are motor neurons?
100
Our awareness of ourselves and our environment.
What is consciousness?
100
REM sleep stands for this.
What is rapid eye movement sleep?
100
The three types of depressants that reduce neural activity and slow body functions.
What is alcohol, barbiturates and opiates?
100
The developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth.
What is a fetus?
200
This insulates the axons of some neurons and helps speed their impulses.
What is the myelin sheath?
200
The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus.
What is selective attention?
200
The waves of a relaxed, awake state.
What are alpha waves?
200
Caffeine and nicotine are both examples of this.
What is a stimulant?
200
The awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived. This develops in the sensorimotor stage of Piaget's stages.
What is object permanence?
300
The meeting point between neurons is called this.
What is a synapse?
300
The principle that information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks.
What is dual processing?
300
The periodic, natural, reversible loss of consciousness.
What is sleep?
300
Drugs, such as LSD, that distort perceptions and evoke sensory images in the absence of sensory input.
What is a hallucinogen?
300
The type of parents who make few demands and use little punishment.
What is the permissive parenting style?
400
These receive messages from other cells.
What are dendrites?
400
Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere.
What is inattentional blindness?
400
The remembered story line of a dream.
What is the manifest content?
400
Name some psychological influences on drug use.
What is lacking a sense of purpose, significant stress and disorders such as depression?
400
The part of Erikson's stages where an older adult reflects on his or her life and may feel a sense of satisfaction or failure.
What is integrity vs. despair?
500
During this, the neuron pumps the positively charged sodium ions back outside before it can fire again.
What is a refractory period?
500
A split in consciousness which allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously with others.
What is dissociation?
500
A stage 4 sleep disorder that children are prone to.
What is sleepwalking?
500
This drug has greater effects which can include eight hours or so of heightened energy and euphoria.
What is methamphetamine?
500
Our accumulated knowledge and verbal skills. This increases with age.
What is crystallized intelligence?