CNS
This neurotransmitter is inhibitory and produces a calming effect that helps to slow you down, lowering your heart rate and blood pressure.
GABA
Associates emotions with experiences. Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fawn.
Amygdala
This lobe is responsible for hearing and memory. Helps you understand the meaning of words and objects
Temporal Lobe
This type of memory processing happens without conscious effort, like remembering your route home.
What is automatic processing?
This lobe is most responsible for your executive function: attention, working memory, self-control and impulse control. It also gives one the ability to process info, make judgments and solve problems.
Frontal Lobe
What is the neurotransmitter glutamate responsible for?
Enhancement of action potentials, learning and memory
Part of the brain that is responsible for: thought, detailed perceptions and complex behavior. Let’s you understand yourself, others and the outside world
Cerebral Cortex
Allows information to flow from left hemisphere to right.
Corpus Callosum
This type of memory processing requires focused attention and effort, like studying for a test.
What is controlled processing?
This term refers to the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information to understand our environment.
What is perception?
Neurotransmitters are typically stored in which part of the neuron?
Axon Terminal (Terminal Buttons)
This is the part of the brain that is also known as the lizard brain. It helps to process and regulate emotion, memory, learning and your sense of smell.
What is the limbic system?
Regulates body functions and motivates behavior (warm to cold, circadian rhythm), and controls the pituitary gland
Hypothalamus
This sleep stage is known for vivid dreams
What is REM?
This effect demonstrates how automatic reading interferes with color naming, revealing a conflict in attention.
What is the function of the myelin sheath?
Fatty material that covers the neuron and allows for faster movement of electrical impulses along the axon
This lobe is responsible for spatial reasoning and knowing where you are in space
Parietal Lobe
Balance, motor coordination and motor learning (riding a bike)
Allows you to ride a bike, listen to music, and chat up your friend all at the same time.
Cerebellum
This altered state of consciousness can be induced by suggestion and is sometimes used in therapy to access memories or reduce pain.
What is hypnosis?
During this deepest stage of sleep, the body repairs itself and growth hormones are released.
What is stage 3?
What is the function of the synapse?
Space between neurons that allows neurons to communicate with one another.
This is responsible for the formation of memories, long-term, short-term and working memory
Hippocampus
Occipital Lobe
According to Freud, this nightly mental activity reveals unconscious desires and conflicts.
What are dreams?
This phenomenon shows how our expectations and prior knowledge influence what we perceive.
What is top-down processing?