AP Psych Game

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Across
  1. 1. Nervous System: Voluntary muscle control system
  2. 5. Nervous System: Brain and spinal cord
  3. 6. Gland: Master gland controlling hormones
  4. 10. Stem: Oldest brain structure controlling survival functions
  5. 13. Fear and aggression center
  6. 14. System: System of glands that secrete hormones
  7. 15. Critical for memory formation
  8. 17. Terminal: Gap at the end of an axon where neurotransmitters are released
  9. 20. Major inhibitory neurotransmitter
  10. 24. Lobe: Lobe for sensory input like touch and pressure
  11. 25. Arousal and alertness neurotransmitter
  12. 26. Relay station for sensory info
  13. 29. Lobe: Lobe for vision
  14. 33. Potential: Rapid electrical charge traveling down the axon
  15. 36. Nervous System: Connects CNS to the rest of the body
  16. 37. Accumbens: Brain reward center linked to addiction
  17. 39. Minimum level of stimulation to trigger an impulse
  18. 40. Mood, hunger, and sleep neurotransmitter
  19. 41. Major excitatory neurotransmitter involved in memory
  20. 43. Nervous System: Automatic body functions system
Down
  1. 2. Enables muscle action, learning, and memory
  2. 3. Hormone linked to bonding, trust, and childbirth
  3. 4. Nervous System: Calms the body after arousal
  4. 7. Hormone that stimulates hunger
  5. 8. Regulates hunger, thirst, and temperature
  6. 9. Sheath: Fatty insulation that speeds up transmission
  7. 11. Lobe: Lobe for hearing and language comprehension
  8. 12. Hormone that regulates sleep/wake cycles
  9. 16. Nervous System: Arouses the body for fight-or-flight
  10. 18. Ganglia: Involved in movement and habit formation
  11. 19. Linked to reward, motivation, movement; low levels tied to Parkinson’s
  12. 21. Hormone that triggers fight-or-flight
  13. 22. Branchlike structures that receive signals
  14. 23. Lobe: Lobe for planning, reasoning, motor control
  15. 27. Cell: Cells that support, protect, and nourish neurons
  16. 28. P: Transmits pain signals
  17. 30. Coordinates balance and fine motor skills
  18. 31. Process of neurotransmitters being reabsorbed into the presynaptic cell
  19. 32. Potential: Neuron’s stable negative charge when inactive
  20. 34. Natural painkillers
  21. 35. Period: Period when a neuron cannot fire again
  22. 38. Long fiber that carries impulses away from the soma
  23. 42. Hormone that suppresses appetite