Brain Anatomy
The part of your brain where long term memories are stored.
What is the cerebral cortex?
Reading the mind in the eyes test.
What is the Baron-Cohen Study?
The type of memory used to recall specific events or experiences.
What is Episodic Memory?
Participants that doodled while listening to the dull phone message were asked to recall something specific.
What is the names of the people at a party?
This phenomenon involves the vivid recollection of events that never occurred.
What is False Memory?
The part of the brain in which you store short term memories.
What is the hippocampus?
The theory proposing that individuals with autism have an "Extreme Male Brain."
What is the Empathizing-Systemizing theory?
The phenomenon where the presence of one memory enhances the recall of another.
What is Memory Priming?
The psychological term for the mental state of daydreaming while performing a task.
What is Mind Wandering?
The age-related decline in cognitive abilities, including memory.
What is Cognitive Aging?
Almond like shape in your brain that processes memory, decision making and emotional responses.
What is the Amygdala?
The measure, developed by Baron-Cohen, that assesses an individual's ability to attribute mental states to others.
What is the "Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test" (RMET)?
The concept that people tend to remember the first and last items in a list more effectively.
What is the Serial Position Effect?
The process through which doodling is believed to improve concentration and memory.
What is Cognitive Unloading?
The process by which memories are strengthened and stabilized.
What is Memory Consolidation?
The structure connecting the brain's two hemispheres, crucial for communication between them.
What is the Corpus Callosum?
The term coined by Baron-Cohen referring to an individual's ability to understand and respond appropriately to social cues.
What is "Social Intelligence"?
The process of filling in gaps in memory with fabricated information.
What is Memory Reconstruction?
According to Andrade, doodling can prevent this cognitive state, helping with memory.
What is Daydreaming?
The neurotransmitter crucial for learning and memory.
What is Acetylcholine?
This region in the brain is responsible for the formation of new memories.
What is the Hippocampus?
In the Empathizing-Systemizing theory, the preference for understanding and predicting systems or rules is associated with this cognitive style.
What is the "Systemizing" cognitive style?
The term for a vivid, detailed, and long-lasting memory often associated with traumatic events.
What is Flashbulb Memory?
The dual-task approach in Andrade's study involved listening to a tape and doodling while also doing what?
What is Recalling Eight Unusual Words?
The term for the difficulty in recalling information from the beginning of a sequence.
What is Primacy Effect?