Important Names
In 1879 the German psychologist opened the first psychology laboratory.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
Located in the temporal lobe, this part of the brain plays a key role in processing emotions.
What is the amygdala?
The mind can be broken down and understood in parts
What is structuralism?
Relatively easy to store and retrieve information.
What is the Short-term memory?
The overlap in speech productions are slightly altered due to following word pronunciation.
What is coarticulation?
He was Wundt's student who introduced the concept of structuralism.
Who is Tichener?
This part of the brain regulates various bodily functions and controls the release of hormones.
What is the hypothalamus?
This part of the brain processes "where" information for visual input.
What is the Posterior Parietal Cortex?
Refers to the way information in our brains is interconnected and how thinking about one idea can trigger related ideas or concepts.
What is spread activation?
People are better at hearing differences between categories of sounds
What is categorical perception?
He survived a traumatic brain injury to the hippocampus which resulted in a change of personality and the inability to form new long-term memories.
Who is Phineas Gage?
This part of the brain is essential for the formation of new memories and spatial navigation.
What is the hippocampus?
This part of the brain processes "what" information for visual input.
What is the inferotemporal cortex?
activate recall such as direct memory testing, conscious awareness
What is explicit memory?
rules describing the language as it is ordinarily used by fluent speakers and listeners
What is Descriptive rules?
This is a non-invasive technique used to stimulate specific areas of the brain via magnetic field.
What is a transcranial magnetic stimulation?
This area acts as a relay station for sensory information, directing signals from sensory organs to the cerebral cortex for further processing.
What is the Thalamus?
This refers to the tendency to apply grammatical rules too rigidly, leading to errors in language production.
What is over-regularization?
Materials learned in one setting are well remembered when the person returns to that setting but are less well remembered in other settings.
What is context-dependent memory?
refers to the patterns of pauses and pitch changes that
characterize speech production.
What is Prosody?
They contributed to the inattentional blindness
Whos is Mack and collegues?
Damage to this area lead to impaired comprehension, intact language production.
What is Wernicke's Area?
This highlights the brain's remarkable capacity to attend to relevant information while ignoring irrelevant or background noise.
What is a cocktail party?
A framework of memory that viewed working memory as storage sites and loading docs for long term memory.
What is the modal model of memory?
the hypothesis that people who speak
different languages think differently as a result
What is Linguistic relativity?