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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Norepinephrine | increases alertness and arousal. too little may lead to parkinsons |
| GABA | main inhibitory neurotransmitter that reduces activity too little may result in anxiety or insomnia |
| Cerebral cortex | handles complex thought, perception, and control. |
| Reticular formation | regulates arousal and filters incoming stimuli. |
| Top down processing | brain uses existing knowledge, expectations, and context to interpret new sensory information |
| Signal detection theory | a framework for measuring how people make decisions under conditions of uncertainty by distinguishing between a "signal" and background "noise” |
| Physiological functioning theory | dreams aren't necessarily meaningful stories but rather byproducts or useful processes of brain activity during sleep |
| James-Lange Theory | emotions are the result of our interpretation of physiological responses to stimuli |
| Cannon-Bard Theory | proposes that emotional feelings and physiological arousal happen simultaneously and independently in response to a stimulus (one does not cause the other) |
| Zajonc-LeDoux Theory | some emotional responses, particularly rapid fear reactions, happen before conscious thought |
| General adaptation syndrome (GAS) | the body's three-stage, short- and long-term reaction to stress: Alarm (fight-or-flight), Resistance (adaptation/recovery), and Exhaustion (depletion of resources |
| working/short term memory | temporarily holds and manipulates information for complex tasks |
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