Psych MT2 (Part 1)
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- Amygdala
- Is critical in emotions such as fear (part of Limbic system)
- Forebrain
- The structures located in the front part of the brain
- Hippocampus
- Has a special role in memory (part of Limbic system)
- Mesencephalon
- __ contains the tectum and tegmentum
- Parasympathetic (NS)
- Part of autonomic nervous system. Is associated with rest.
- Cerebrum
- Regulates our higher intellectual processes (human brain concentric layer)
- Thirst
- The psychological manifestation of the need for water
- Telencephalon
- __ contains the cerebral cortex, basal ganglia, and the limbic system
- Nucleus
- In the brain and spinal cord, a group of cell bodies of neurons is referred to as a __
- Anorexia nervosa
- An eating disorder characterized by extreme, self-imposed weight loss - at least 15% of the individual's minimum normal weight
- Catharsis
- Purging an emotion by experiencing it intensely
- extracellular (thirst)
- When our bodies lose water because we have gone without drinking or have exercised intensively
- Medulla
- A narrow structure that controls breathing and some reflexes that help maintain upright posture (located in the central core)
- Hypothalamus
- Centers in the __ regulate eating, drinking, and sexual behaviour
- Nerve
- A bundle of elongated axons belonging to hundreds or thousands of neurons
- Cerebellum
- Concerned primarily with the coordination of movement (located in the central core)
- Axon
- A slender tube that extends from the soma and trasmits these messages to other neurons (or to muscles and glands)
- Neuron
- A specialized cell that transmits neural impulses or messages to other neurons, glands, and muscles
- Self-Objectification
- A person thinks about and values her own body more from a third-person perspective, focusing on observable body attributes, rather than from a first-person perspective, focusing on priviledged, or unobservable body attributes
- Central Core
- Regulates our most primitive behaviours (human brain concentric layer)
- Limbic System
- Controls our emotions (human brain concentric layer)
- Ventromedial
- Lesions of the __ hypothalamus produce extreme appetites
- Neurotransmitter
- A chemical that diffuses across the synaptic gap and stimulates the next neuron
- Frustration-Aggression (Hypothesis)
- Whenever a person's effort to reach a goal is blocked, an aggressive drive is induced that motivates behaviour intended to injure the obstacle (person or object) causing the frustration
- Diencephalon
- __ contains the thalamus and hypothalamus
- Intracellular (thirst)
- Caused by osmosis - the tendency of water to move from zones where it is plentiful to zones where it is relatively rare
- Lateral
- Destruction of the __ hypothalamus produces an apparent total lack of hunger
- Thalamus
- Important in the control of sleep and wakefulness and acts as a sensory relay station
- Sympathetic (NS)
- Part of autonomic nervous system. Is active during times of intense arousal
- Midbrain
- The middle of the brain
- Dendrite
- A number of short branches called __,which receive neural impulses from adjacent neurons
- Ganglion
- A group of neuronal cell bodies found outside the brain and spinal cord
- Myelencephalon
- __ contains the medulla
- Socio-Learning (theory)
- Shares basic principles of reinforcement with behaviourism, it differs from strict behaviourism in that it also emphasizes cognitive processes
- Alliesthesia
- Any external stimulus that corrects an internal trouble is experienced as pleasurable
- Glucose (level of)
- What causes hunger?
- Synapse
- A slight gap between the terminal button and the cell body or dendrites of the receiving neuron
- Cerebral Cortex
- The outer layer of the cerebrum
- Hindbrain
- All the structures located in the back of the brain, closest to the spinal cord
- Conditioned Aversion
- Associative memories cause the food to subsequently be experienced as unpleasant
- Objectification (theory)
- A socio-account of how being raised in a culture that sexually objectifies the female body (both within the visual mass media and within actual interpersonal encounters) fundamentally alters girls' and women's self-views and well-being
- Metencephalon
- __ contains the cerebellum and pons
- Bulimia
- A eating disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of binge eating, followed by attempts to purge the excess by means of vomiting or laxatives
- Glial cell
- The nervous system has a large number of nonneural cells, called __ (singular)