• acetylcholine
• acromegaly
• ACTH (acetylcholine)
• action planning
• activation theory of dreaming
• addiction
• adenosine
• ADH (antidiuretic hormone)
• adrenaline (epinephrine)
• alpha waves
• amnesia
• amphetamines
• amygdala
• anger
• anterior cingulate cortex
• anterior insula
• anterograde amnesia
• anxiety
• apnea
• aversive
• basal ganglia
• beta waves
• Beta-endorphin
• brain sand
• Broca’s area
• cerebral palsy
• circadian rhythms
• cocaine
• cognitive mediation theory of emotion
• coma
• common sense theory of emotion
• conditioned responses
• core (nucleus accumbens)
• cortisol
• CPAP machine
• Cushing’s disease
• daytime sleepiness
• declarative memory
• delta waves
• dendritic arbors
• depression
• disgust
• disinhibition principle
• display rules
• dopamine
• dreams
• adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)
• drugs
• emblems
• engagement (flow)
• epilepsy
• epinephrine
• episodic memory
• epithalamus
• facial expressions
• fatal familial insomnia
• fear conditioning
• foreign accent syndrome
• FSH (follicle stimulating hormone)
• GABA
• globus pallidus
• hippocampus
• hormones
• Huntington’s disease
• hypothalamus
• implicit memory
• impulse control
• impulsivity
• inferior colliculus
• James-Lange theory of emotion
• jet lag
• K-complexes
• kinesia paradoxica
• Korsakoff’s syndrome
• lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN)
• LH (lutropin)
• limbic system
• long term memory (LTM)
• lowest body temp
• LTH (luteotropic)
• medial geniculate nucleus (MGN)
• melatonin
• memory consolidation
• memory formation
• memory loss
• micro expressions
• motivation
• motivational salience
• motor learning
• motor planning
• N1 stage of sleep
• N2 stage of sleep
• N3 stage of sleep
• narcolepsy
• non-declarative memory
• NREM
• nuclei
• nucleus accumbens
• OCD
• olfactory tubercle
• oxytocin
• pallidum
• paralysis of will
• Parkinson’s disease
• pars compacta (substantia nigra)
• pars reticula (substantia nigra)
• PERMA (Martin Selligman’s theory of happiness)
• phobias
• pineal gland
• pinealocytes
• pituitary gland
• placebo effect
• prefrontal cortex
• preoptic nucleus of hypothalamus
• procedural memory
• Prolactin (PRL)
• prospective memory
• PTSD
• REM
• retrograde amnesia
• sad
• SAD (seasonal affective disorder)
• schizophrenia
• seizures
• self-monitoring
• semantic dementia
• semantic memory (names and facts)
• sexual infantilism
• sexually dimorphic nucleus
• Sheehan syndrome
• shell (nucleus accumbens)
• short term memory (STM)
• sleep apnea
• sleep debt
• sleep deprivation
• sleep disorders
• sleep duration
• sleep spindles
• sleep study = polysomnogram
• sparse encoding
• spatial memory
• startle response
• striatum
• substantia nigra
• subthalamic nucleus
• superior colliculus
• suprachiasmatic nucleus
• surprise
• thalamic syndrome
• thalamus
• theories of emotion
• theta waves
• threat-simulation theory
• thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH)
• tremors
• two factor theory of emotion
• vasopressin
• ventralmedial area (prefrontal cortex) 
• voluntary motor control
• voluntary movement
• Wooden Chest Syndrome
• working memory
• Wundt
• yawning

How Choosing The Right Research Method Is Like Choosing Your Mate

Biological Psychology is the study of how not everything is about choice. Choice is good but not all there is to it.

We choose our mates from an available pool of possibilities. It’s not just choice. Environment has something to do with it. We are not choosing from the entire universe or even the whole world. [Read more…]

The final includes everything we’ve covered since the midterm.

Since biological psychology has so many technical terms, focus on the vocabulary. If you understand what the words mean, you’ll have a good head start.

Study as if the items were listing or compare-and-contrast. The questions are multiple choice but don’t rely on recognition. Read the stem of the item and then think of what the right answer should be. Then read the options and choose the best one.

There are 45 multiple choice items (2 points each) and 1 essay item (10 points).

Make sure you have a good internet connection and that no one will disturb you. You have 90 minutes to complete it.

When you’re ready, try to relax and think your way through the test.