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The space between Neurons that only Neurotransmitters can pass through.
What is the synapse?
Lasts about 30 seconds, can hold 7 +/- 2 bits of information.
What is the short-term memory?
LISTS HUNDREDS OF DIFFERENT PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS
What is DSM-IV-TR?
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Who is Sigmund Freud?
This is where many long term memories are stored through consolidation.
What is the hippocampus?
Organizing items into familiar, manageable units; often occurs automatically.
What is chunking?
WHEN PERSISTENT UNWANTED THOUGHTS CAUSE SOMEONE TO FEEL THE NEED TO ENGAGE IN A PARTICULAR ACTION
What is OCD?
Who is Abraham Maslow?
The tendency to remember items at the beginning and end of a list better than items in the middle.
What is the serial position effect?
The theory that information learned in a particular state of mind (e.g., depressed, happy, somber) is more easily recalled when in that same state of mind.
What is state dependent memory?
DISORDER WHEN A PERSON MANIFESTS A PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEM THROUGH A PHYSIOLOGICAL SYMPTOM
What is SOMATOFORM DISORDER?
Raised monkeys with two artificial mothers. one represented nourishment, the other contact/comfort. Discovered monkeys would feed from harsh mom with the food, but quickly return to soft cloth mom for a safe/secure base. Humans act the same way, we are social creatures who need contact to thrive.
Who is Harry Harlow?
A memory phenomenon that involves the sensation of knowing that specific information is stored in long-term memory, but being temporarily unable to retrieve it.
What is the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon?
The unconscious encoding of incidental information, such as space, time, and inconsequential details.
What is Automatic Processing
This personality disorder is characterized by instability in relationships, self-image, and emotion regulation, and is often confused with bipolar disorder.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
Famous for the Bobo doll study- explained the social learning theory. Aggression is learned through observing and imitating others. The experiment is important because it sparked many more studies on the effects of violent media on children.
Who is Albert Bandura?
This person proposed the idea of the forgetting curve. I bet you forgot about him ;)
Who is Hermann Ebbinghaus?
Holds all of your memories relating to facts and general information.
What is semantic memory?
The DSM is published by this organization.
What is the American Psychology Association? (APA)
Most famous experiment: The authority figure told the teacher to test the learner word pairs, and if the learner were to answer wrong, the teacher would have to punish the student by electric shocks which got stronger each time. Although no actual shocks were given, more than 60% had 'shocked' the learner up to full voltage. Proved that people will do things mainly because an authority figure had prompted the teacher to do so.
Who is Stanley Milgram?