Nervous System
Coping Strategies
Window of Tolerance
Trauma Therapy
Triune Brain
100

What term refers to something that INCREASES the level of activation in your nervous system?

Upregulating

100

A coping skill that is meant to decrease your level of nervous system activity is also known as what?

Self regulation skill

100

What is it called when someone is outside of their window of tolerance and feeling like they don't have enough stimulation?

Hypoarousal

100

When we gradually confront someone with something they're scared of in stages this is called...

Exposure therapy

100

What are the three divisions of the triune brain?

Front brain (cortex), mid brain (mammalian brain), back brain (lizard brain)

200

What is the one part of our autonomic nervous system that we can consciously control?

Breathing rate

200

When we go through a threat response, what is the first physiological change that occurs that creates a self perpetuating cycle?

Increase in respiratory rate/hyperoxygenation of our blood

200

What is it called when someone is outside of their window of tolerance and feels like they are being overstimulated?

Hyperarousal

200

What is it called when someone begins responding less and less to a specific stimuli?

Desensitization

200

When our brain pulls from our back brain memory and makes us re-experience certain sensations this is called a...

Flashback

300

Which part of our nervous system governs the fight or flight response?

Sympathetic nervous system

300

What two physical senses are impossible for our body to ignore? One can be used as a positive coping skill, the other is a maladaptive coping skill.

Positive - temperature

Negative - pain

300

Excitatory symptoms, such as restless energy, fidgeting, pacing, mood swings, and difficulty thinking are symptoms of what type of arousal?

Hyperarousal

300

What is the most common co-occurring diagnosis with PTSD?

Substance Use Disorder

300

What types of memories are stored in the divisions of the triune brain?

Front brain - executive or standard memory

Back brain - survival and trauma memory

400

The sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems are part of what division of the nervous system?

Autonomic nervous system

400

When we take cues from other people around us in order to regulate our own nervous system, what is this process called?

Co-regulation

400

In trauma and recovery group we have discussed a specific type of curve that displays stress versus performance. What're the names of the two nerds who came up with this curve?

Yerkes and Dodson

400

What is it called when we completely eliminate an association or behavioral response in our brain?

For bonus 100 points: What is a more effective option than this?

Extinction

Bonus answer: Replacing it with another behavior

400

When someone is experiencing a threat response, which portion of the triune brain is primarily in control?

Back brain/lizard brain

500

What is the term that refers to the long body of a neuron that transmits messages like a telephone wire and is covered in a substance called myelin?

Axon

500

A frequent coping strategy used to snap ourselves out of dissociation or trauma responses involves splashing water in our face. What physiological response does this act activate?

The dive response

500

DAILY DOUBLE - WORTH DOUBLE POINTS

What is Tyler's dog's name, and what breed of dog is he?

JC - papillon/long haired chihuahua mix

500

A popular form of trauma therapy is known as EMDR. What does EMDR stand for?

Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing

500

The amygdala, a brain structure responsible for the feeling and expression of fear, is located in which part of the triune brain?

The back brain/lizard brain