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🧠Intro to Brain and Behavior
Key Terms

351 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Intro to Brain and Behavior exam

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A

Adhesion molecules
Agonist Muscles
Allostatic Load
Altered States of Consciousness
Ampa receptor
Amyloid plaques
Analogical problem-solving
Anchoring bias
Animal testing
Associative learning
Attentional bias
Attentional blink
Attentional bottleneck
Attentional control
Auditory brainstem response
Auditory cortex
Auditory hallucinations
Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS)
Autonomic arousal
Autonomic reflex
Avoidance behaviors
Axon hillock
Axon terminals

B

Baddeley's Model
Baddeley's Model of Working Memory
Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis
Behavioral addiction
Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia
Behavioral intervention
Behavioral response
Binocular cues
Bipolar Cells
Bottom-up attention
Bottom-up processing
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor

C

Cag trinucleotide repeat expansion
Cannon-Bard Theory
Cardiovascular Center
Catastrophic thinking
Catechol-o-methyltransferase inhibitors
Cattell-Horn-Carroll Theory
Caudate Nucleus
Cell adhesion molecules
Central Canal
Cerebellar cortex
Cerebellar degeneration
Cerebrospinal fluid
Cholinergic System
Cholinesterase inhibitors
Chromosomal abnormalities
Cingulate cortex
Cingulate Gyrus
Circuit dynamics
Clinical trials
Closed-loop control
Cognitive abilities
Cognitive assessments
Cognitive enhancers
Cognitive flexibility
Cognitive processes
Cognitive Processing Speed
Cognitive symptoms
Cognitive Theory
Cognitive-behavioral perspective
Color vision
Conduction aphasia
Conductive hearing loss
Connectionist model
Conners Rating Scale
Contact Guidance
Contextual Cues
Contrast sensitivity
Cortical homunculus
Cortical layering
Corticobasal degeneration