Vocabulary

• in order to: For the purpose of; with the aim of.
• have to: Must do
• rather than: More exactly; more correctly
• check out
• anxiety: A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease about something that might happen, especially when the outcome is uncertain.
• chronic: Always or often doing something, e.g. lying
• process: To organize and use data in a computer
• critical: Making a negative judgment of something
• situation: Place, position or area that something is in
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• encounter: To come up against a problem or trouble; meet
• extreme: Very great in degree
• advantage: Thing making the chance of success higher
• cortex: The outer part of an organ/structure, e.g. brain
• stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
• influence: To affect or change something indirectly
• pressure: Anxiety caused by difficult problems
• increase: To make or become larger in size or amount
• calm: Without wind or storm; quiet; peaceful
• stimulate: To arouse or excite emotionally
• task: Big or small piece of work someone has to do
• exercise: To work out to become stronger and healthier
• sensitive: Taking offense easily; easily upset or hurt
• gradually: Occurring in a slow manner over a period of time
• moderate: To host a meeting or panel discussion
• similar: Nearly the same; alike
• sustain: To lengthen or continue to do something
• prompt: Message on a computer requiring attention
• prefrontal: Anterior to a frontal structure
• brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
• response: Something said/written as an answer to something
• acquisition: Process of acquiring; thing that is acquired
• hippocampus: A part of the brain that is part of the limbic system and is important for memory
• define: To explain the meaning of words
• emphasize: To stress the items that are important
• effect: An advantage, benefit
• release: To free someone from a responsibility or burden
• complete: To finish or reach the end of doing something
• novelty: Items that are unusual, interesting, or unique
• threat: Warning of probable trouble
• retrieve: To find and bring in animals during a hunt
• performance: Act of doing something
• consolidate: To combine into one; make bigger or stronger
• drop: Distance between a higher and a lower level
• reason: To think and make conclusions in a logical manner
• consolidation: Act of combining into an integral whole
• vicious: Very dangerous, e.g. an animal or dog
• lead: Wire for electricity, computer, etc.; cable
• counteract: To reduce the impact doing something opposite
• induce: To make someone do something; create an outcome
• sensory: Referring to the physical senses
• handy: Convenient, easy to use, easy to reach
• amygdala: Almond-shaped structure in the brain's anterior
• rely: Depend on with full trust or confidence
• appear: To be seen, become visible; come into sight
• mind: To be bothered or upset by something
• activate: To cause to happen; cause a chemical reaction
• encode: To change a message or information into code
• retrieval: Act or process of finding and getting something
• synaptic: Concerning or involving synapses