Psychologically Speaking: Flex Your Mental Muscle

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  1. 5. Nerve cells, the basic elements of the nervous system.
  2. 6. A false treatment, such as a pill, without any significant chemical properties or active ingredient
  3. 7. The part of the brain located in the middle of the central core that acts primarily to relay information about the senses.
  4. 10. Chemicals produced by the brain that reflect the effort to deal with pain as well as to elevate mood.
  5. 11. A cluster of fibers at one end of a neuron that receives messages from the other neurons.
  6. 12. A tiny part of the brain, located below the thalamus, that maintains homeostasis and produces and regulates vital behavior, such as eating, drinking, and sexual behavior.
  7. 17. Motor neurons that communicate information from the brain and nervous system to muscles and glands
  8. 20. Views behavior from the perspective of biological functioning
  9. 21. Chemicals that carry messages across the synapse to the dendrite of a receiver neuron.
  10. 22. Chemical message that makes it more likely that a receiving neuron will fire and an action potential will travel down its axon
  11. 23. Specialized neurons that fire not only when a person enacts a particular behavior, but also when a person simply observes another individual carrying out that same behavior.
  12. 25. A variable that is manipulated by the experimenter
  13. 26. Symmetrical left and right halves of the brain that control the side of the body opposite to their location
  14. 28. Contends that people can control their behavior and that they naturally try to reach their full potential
  15. 29. Chemicals that circulate through the blood and regulate the functioning or growth of the body.
  16. 32. The system of the brain that controls eating, aggression, and reproduction.
  17. 33. Neurotransmitter which is involved in movement, attention, and learning.
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  1. 1. The part of the neuron that carries messages destined for other neurons.
  2. 2. Excitatory neurotransmitter that plays a role in memory
  3. 3. Behaviors, events, or other characteristics that can change, or vary, in some way
  4. 4. The four major sections of the cerebral cortex: frontal parietal, temporal, and occipital.
  5. 8. Chemical message that prevents or decreases the likelihood that a receiving neuron will fire.
  6. 9. System of chemical communication network that sends messages throughout the body via the bloodstream.
  7. 13. Focuses on uncovering the fundamental mental components of consciousness, thinking, and other kinds of mental states and activities
  8. 14. A variable that is measured in an experiment and is expected to change as a result of manipulation.
  9. 15. The idea that people’s behavior is produced primarily by factors outside of their willful control
  10. 16. A procedure in which a person learns to control through conscious thought internal physiological processes such as blood pressure, heart and respiration rate, skin temperature, sweating, and the constriction of particular muscles.
  11. 18. Examines how people understand and think about the world
  12. 19. A procedure used to study the structor of the mind in which subjects are asked to describe in detail what they are experiencing when they are exposed to a stimulus.
  13. 24. The part of the brain that controls bodily balance.
  14. 27. Neurotransmitter which is associated with the regulation of sleep, eating, mood, and pain.
  15. 30. Automatic, involuntary response to an incoming stimulus.
  16. 31. The space between two neurons where the axon of a sending neuron communicates with the dendrites of a receiving neuron by using chemical messages.
  17. 34. Sensory neurons that transmit information from the perimeter of the body to the nervous system and brain