Psych Unit 3 Vocab
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Plasticity | show 🗑
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| Neuron | show 🗑
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| show | Supports, nourishes, and protects neurons
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| Threshold | show 🗑
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| show | The time it takes neurons to fire again
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| All-or-none response | show 🗑
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| Resting potential | show 🗑
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| Depolarization | show 🗑
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| show | When the immune system attacks glial cells, myelin is damaged and stripped from the axon leading to loss of motor function and such
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| Reuptake | show 🗑
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| Excitatory neurotransmitters | show 🗑
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| show | One that blocks the chemical message from being passed along any further
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| Reuptake inhibitors | show 🗑
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| show | Enables muscle action, learning, and memory
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| Dopamine | show 🗑
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| Serotonin | show 🗑
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| show | Helps control alertness and arousal
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| show | A major inhibitory neurotransmitter
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| Glutamate | show 🗑
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| show | Neurotransmitters that influence the perception of pain or pleasure
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| Agonists | show 🗑
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| Antagonists | show 🗑
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| Substance P | show 🗑
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| Myasthenia Gravis | show 🗑
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| show | The communicating network in our body
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| Central Nervous System (CNS) | show 🗑
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| Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) | show 🗑
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| show | Carry messages from tissues and sensory receptors
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| show | Carry instructions to muscles and glands
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| show | Communicate between sensory and motor neurons
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| Somatic Nervous System | show 🗑
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| show | Controls glands and internal organ muscles automatically
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| show | Arouses and expends energy, for example, raising your heartbeat in a stressful situation
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| show | Conserves energy, for example, calming you down after watching a horror movie
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| show | A simple, automatic response to a sensory stimulus
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| show | Chemical messengers
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| Adrenaline | show 🗑
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| show | Super important, it regulates growth and controls our endocrine glands
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| Hypothalamus | show 🗑
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| Leptin | show 🗑
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| Ghrelin | show 🗑
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| show | Times circadian rhythms and sleep and shit
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| show | Causes contraction of uterus during labor and stimulates ejection of milk into the ducts of breasts (also known as the horny hormone)
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| show | Like an amplified recording of electrical activity across the brain's surface
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| fMRI (functioning MRI) | show 🗑
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| Lesions | show 🗑
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| Brain stem | show 🗑
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| Medulla | show 🗑
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| Thalamus | show 🗑
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| Reticular formation | show 🗑
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| show | Extends from the brainstem's rear, enables nonverbal learning and skill memory
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| Limbic system | show 🗑
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| Amygdala | show 🗑
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| show | Seahorse-shaped (processes memories)
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| Cerebral cortex | show 🗑
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| Frontal lobes | show 🗑
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| show | Top of head and rear, receives sensory input for touch and body position
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| show | Back of head, receives information from the visual fields
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| Temporal lobes | show 🗑
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| Motor cortex | show 🗑
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| Sensory cortex | show 🗑
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| Cortex specialization | show 🗑
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| show | In the frontal lobe, thought of as the personality center, what makes us uniquely human
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| Broca's area | show 🗑
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| Wernicke's area | show 🗑
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| Aphasia | show 🗑
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| show | Brain growth, like plasticity
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| Corpus callosum | show 🗑
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| Hemispheric specialization/Lateralization | show 🗑
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| Consciousness | show 🗑
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| show | The concentration of awareness on something
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| Selective attention | show 🗑
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| show | The failure to notice something fully-visible but unexpected because attention was engaged on another task
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| Change blindness | show 🗑
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| show | Focusing on one thing while filtering out other things
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| Blindsight | show 🗑
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| show | The physical, mental, and behavioral changes an organism experiences over a 24-hour cycle
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| Jet lag | show 🗑
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| REM sleep | show 🗑
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| show | The transitional state from wakefulness to sleep
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| EEG patterns (of each NREM stage) | show 🗑
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| show | A disorder where it's hard to fall asleep
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| show | A chronic neurological disorder that affects the brain's ability to control sleep-wake cycles
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| Sleep apnea | show 🗑
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| show | Walking around or sometimes performing other actions while sleeping
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| REM Sleep Behavior Disorder | show 🗑
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| Neural activation | show 🗑
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| show | The tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation
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| Consolidation theory | show 🗑
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| show | Chemicals that change perceptions and moods
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| show | Needing larger quantities of a drug for the same effect
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| Addiction | show 🗑
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| Withdrawl | show 🗑
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| show | Drugs that calm neural activity and slow body functions
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| show | Basically an addiction to alcohol
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| Opiates | show 🗑
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| show | Drugs that excite neural activity and speed up body functions
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| show | A stimulant that's really powerful
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| Caffeine | show 🗑
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| show | Drugs tha distort perceptions and evoke sensory images in the absence of sensory input
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| Marijuana/THC | show 🗑
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| show | Our "slow" chemical communication system that uses hormones
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