AP Psych - Unit 1: Biological Basis of Behavior

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Across
  1. 4. Lobe involved in planning, decision-making, and movement
  2. 10. Brain structure important for forming new memories
  3. 11. Disorder involving repeated pauses in breathing during sleep
  4. 12. Controls vital functions such as breathing and heartbeat
  5. 13. Bundle connecting the brain's two hemispheres
  6. 14. Controls voluntary movements
  7. 18. Brain area involved in understanding language
  8. 20. Division that arouses the body during stress
  9. 24. Gland that regulates many other endocrine glands
  10. 26. Neurotransmitter involved in movement, learning, and memory
  11. 27. Difficulty falling or staying asleep
  12. 29. Natural chemicals that reduce pain and produce pleasure
  13. 33. When a neuron becomes less negatively charged
  14. 35. All nerves outside the brain and spinal cord
  15. 37. Hemisphere generally associated with language and analytical processing
  16. 38. Neuron's normal resting electrical charge
  17. 39. Lobe that processes touch and body sensations
  18. 41. Neurotransmitter involved in alertness and arousal
  19. 43. Episodes of intense fear during sleep
  20. 45. Controls involuntary body functions
  21. 49. Brainstem network involved in alertness and arousal
  22. 50. End branches that release neurotransmitters
  23. 51. Brain structure involved in balance and coordination
  24. 52. Tiny gap between communicating neurons
  25. 53. Disorder in which people physically act out dreams
  26. 54. Lobe responsible for processing visual information
  27. 55. Regulates hunger, thirst, temperature, and other drives
  28. 56. Chemical messengers released by glands
  29. 57. Walking or performing behaviors while asleep
Down
  1. 1. Brain's ability to change and reorganize
  2. 2. Division that calms the body and conserves energy
  3. 3. Hidden meaning of a dream
  4. 5. Lobe involved in hearing, language, and memory
  5. 6. Remembered storyline of a dream
  6. 7. Brainstem structure involved in sleep and movement
  7. 8. Major excitatory neurotransmitter involved in learning and memory
  8. 9. Drugs that alter perception and produce hallucinations
  9. 15. Chemical messengers between neurons
  10. 16. Process of a neuron reabsorbing neurotransmitters
  11. 17. Major inhibitory neurotransmitter that calms neural activity
  12. 19. Branches that receive messages from other neurons
  13. 21. body Part of a neuron containing the nucleus
  14. 22. Neurotransmitter involved in movement, motivation, and reward
  15. 23. Drugs that increase activity in the nervous system
  16. 25. Brain area involved in producing speech
  17. 28. Structure involved in processing fear and emotion
  18. 30. Drugs that slow activity in the nervous system
  19. 31. Electrical impulse that travels down an axon
  20. 32. Brain and spinal cord
  21. 34. Neurotransmitter involved in mood, sleep, and appetite
  22. 36. Area that processes information from the senses
  23. 40. Fatty covering that speeds neural impulses
  24. 42. Brain's major sensory information relay station
  25. 43. Disorder involving sudden, uncontrollable sleep attacks
  26. 44. Hemisphere generally associated with spatial and creative processing
  27. 46. Formation of new neurons
  28. 47. Area that controls voluntary movement
  29. 48. Long fiber that carries impulses away from the cell body