Interaction of Heredity and Environment
This describes the passing down of genetic physical and mental characteristics.
What is heredity?
This system is comprised of the brain and spinal cord, the main processing centers of the nervous system and control all the body's functions.
What is the Central Nervous System (CNS)?
This brain structure consolidates short-term memories into long-term memories, and is involved in visual-spatial memory, verbal memory, and declarative memory.
What is the hippocampus?
The body's natural sleep/wake cycle.
What is a circadian rhythm?
Someone who has a more sensitive sense of taste than the average person, particularly for bitter flavors. Spicy foods are undesirable, taste buds are extremely concentrated.
This belief suggests that human beings are a product of their environment, and natural born characteristics are less impactful.
What is nurture?
This body system responsible for the body's rest and digestion response when the body is relaxed, resting, or eating/feeding. This includes the "fight or flight" response.
What is the Parasympathetic Nervous System?
This brain structure a thick bundle of nerve fibers that connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain.
What is the corpus callosum?
During this period of sleep, the brain is extremely active. This is the stage in which dreaming takes place.
What is REM (Rapid eye movement) sleep?
This is a sensory system that processes chemical stimuli, called odorants, to provide information about their identity, concentration, and quality. Essential the system that helps us smell.
What is the olfactory system?
This evolutionary theory explains how living organisms adapt and change over time. Determined behavior that enhances the ability to survive and reproduce will continue in future generations.
What is natural selection?
These neurons are part of the CNS and are responsible for controlling muscle movement.
What are motor neurons?
This is a region of the brain concerned with the production of speech, located in the cortex of the dominant frontal lobe.
What is Broca's area?
Difficulty falling or staying asleep, poor sleep quality, daytime sleepiness, irritability, low energy, depressed mood.
What is insomnia?
A savory taste that is one of the five basic tastes, along with sweet, sour, salty, and bitter.
What is umami?
What are twin studies?
Heroin, cocaine, meth, LSD, MDMA, Amphetamines, Cannabis, etc.
What are Psychoactive drugs?
The part of the brain that is responsible for understanding written and spoken language.
What is Wernicke's Area?
This sleep disorder can be dangerous because it can cause people to fall asleep unexpectedly during activities like driving, eating, or working. While there's no cure, treatments and lifestyle changes can help manage symptoms.
A sensation that occurs when your brain routes sensory information through multiple unrelated senses, causing you to experience more than one sense simultaneously.
What is synesthesia?
This discriminatory practice includes controlling the human population by only allowing "desirable" human beings with desirable traits to reproduce.
What is eugenics?
When one stops using a specific drug and their body is going through a physiological reaction. Symptoms include anxiety, fatigue, sweating, vomiting, depression, seizures, and hallucinations.
Treatment includes supportive care as well as medications to address symptoms and prevent complications.
What is withdrawal?
This is the smallest lobe of the brain and is responsible for processing visual information. It's located at the back of the head.
What is the occipital lobe?
This is a relatively common sleep disorder that causes breathing to stop or become very shallow while sleeping. It can occur from five to over 100 times per hour, and each interruption usually lasts 10 to 20 seconds.
What is sleep apnea?
This psychological principle that describes how people perceive changes in stimuli.
For example, if you lift a 2 kg weight, you might not notice a difference if you add 0.05 kg to it. However, you might notice a difference if you add 0.2 kg
What is Weber's Law?