Famous Brain Parts
The lobes that controls hearing.
Faulty memory for how, when or where information was learned.
Source amnesia
Research method with a n of 1 because of its unique characteristics.
Case study
Basic components of the nervous system
Neurons
Gustation is:
Taste
The "Michele" of the brain. Delivers messages to sensory receiving areas from the cerebellum (and vice versa)
Thalamus
Explicit memory type (any)
Semantic, Episodic, Prospective,
A type of research method that observes and records behavior in a natural setting.
Naturalistic observation
Chemicals that carry messages between neurons
Neurotransmitters
Conversion of one form of energy into another. Ex: Lightwave into neural impulse
Transduction
Responsible for nonverbal and skill learning. (also called procedural learning)
Cerebellum
The term for neural storage of long-term memory (processing of this happens in hippocampus)
Memory consolidation
A sample that fairly represents a population because each member has an equal chance of inclusion.
Random sample
This enables faster transmission in a neuron
Myelin Sheath
Sense of balance
Vestibular sense
Maintains thirst, food, body temperature, and runs the endocrine system.
Hypothalamus
Miller's number (how much in working memory)
7 +/- 2
Repeating the study with different participants to see whether the initial finding can be reproduced.
Replication
Two main divisions of the nervous system
Central and Peripheral
Our expectations, motives, context, mood, environment all create this as we interpret the world.
Perceptual Set
Linked to emotion including fear and aggression
Amygdala
If you have never learned something in the first place the reason you do not remember this is:
Encoding failure
A statistical index of the relationship between two variables.
Correlation coefficient
Division of the peripheral nervous system that controls the body's skeletal muscles
Somatic Nervous System
retinal disparity and convergence are both one of these
Binocular cue