Psych Exam 2

brain cell

ganglions

production of new neurons, seldom happens in adults

immature cells that renew and can develop into mature cells (early embryos)

• Serotonin
• Dopamine
• Acetylcholine
• Norepinephrine

sleep, appetite, learning, memory, emotion, mood, sensory perception, and pain suppression.

• voluntary movement, learning, memory, emotion, and response to novelty and pleasure.
• Too much= schizophrenia
• Too little= parkinson's disease

muscle action, cognitive function, memory, and emotion. Dream State - REM

increased heart rate during stress, learning, memory, sleep and dreaming, awakening, emotion

inhibition of the function of the brain.

pain reduction, pleasure, and memory

measures surface electricity of the brain

sliced images of brain, good on hard tissue

good for brain tissue and soft tissue structures

shows biochemical activity of brain

• Brain
• Spinal cord: bridge between brain and peripheral nerves

• Somatic: controls skeletal muscles
• Autonomic: regulates internal body organs

• action and energy
• conserves energy

glands and hormones

pineal gland, regulation of biological rhythm (initiates sleep)

emotion and stress

reproductive development, gender characteristics

• gray and white matter
• 2-3 pounds
• electrochemical mechanism

back area

sleeping and dreaming, communication

staying alive

movement and balance

alert, sleep - awake cycle

under cerebrum

• Thalamus: relay station
• Hypothalamus/Pituitary gland: regulator

• 4 F's of psych: Food, Fight, Fear, Sex)
• memory and emotion

Arousal, emotion, and memory; aggressive-defensive posture

memory and emotion, short-term to long term info

largest brain structure

layers of brain cells

controls the left side balance, creative, musical, art, sapatial, and emotion

controls the right side balance, logical, reasoning, math, and language

mood, facial expressions, plan, anticipate, language, concepts, beliefs, memory and emotion, expressive

Wernicke's area, receptive language

spacial, directions, face recognition, sensation (touch, pain)

visual understanding

stream of consciousness: always changing and flowing, of the moment

• -conscious: completely aware
• -preconscious: in between conscious and unconscious (dreaming)
• -unconscious: suppressed things come out in dreams

symbols of the unconscious, manifest content (what happens, storyline) and latent content (interpretation)

Activation theory: dreams are random burst of neural impulses

Lucid Dreaming: change dream in mid-stream

• REM sleep is related to dreams
• outside things affect dream
• people know how long they dream
• "morning wood" not related to dreams

inability to maintain or stay asleep

stop breathing

suddenly sleeping (like Mr. Bean)

• REM- dream state
• 1) Alpha
• 2) K-complex (spikes in alpha waves
• 3) Theta (long waves)
• 4) Delta (night terrors, sleep walking/talking)

distraction, expectation, and thus, altering one's consciousness

20% easy, 60% medium, 20% no

• pain reduction
• anxiety reduction
• child birth
• conversion disorders (the mind makes it real)
• stress related problems

simple form of relaxation, focusing on focal point, progressive relaxation

using machines to monitor how well you relax (like a mood ring)

image helps relaxation