I Can Use This
Want to remember more? While it doesn't technically change the number of items you can hold on to, this strategy will let you fit more information into each "slot" your temporary memory system has.
What is Chunking?
This would be why someone does what makes them happy, and refuses to do things that make them upset.
What is the Hedonic Principle?
This chemical in the brain is most famously connected to Stress.
What is Cortisol?
...due to its specific effects on people, Meditation is considered to fall into this broad category of stress management.
What is a Body Method?
What is Explicit Learning?
Watch out for how people phrase things! Even if they are not trying to, they may cause this trait of human beings to alter your memory.
What is Suggestibility?
This is the harder kind of change in habit.
What is Cutting out a Bad Habit?
This, rather frustrating, action of the brain causes a lot of the standard symptoms of sickness.
What is the Sickness Response?
...someone who believes that an issue they've encountered is something they are able to change is experiencing high this.
What is Perceived Control.
This kind of learning only involves presenting two things together, not someone taking an action.
What is Classical Conditioning?
Want to study more effectively? Research shows that this step, though it describes "fetching" and using a memory, can actually helps strengthen it. So those practice quizzes and tests can be helpful after all!
What is Retrieval?
This could explain someone who hates eggs not wanting anything to do with any food that has them.
What is Avoidance Motivation?
This area of the brain is responsible for emotional control, logic, and planning. Plus, it's the last to be finished developing! No wonder kids and teens are so impulsive.
What is the Frontal Lobe? (or, the Prefrontal Cortex?)
...that this describes a stressful situation someone believes they cannot change.
What is a Threat?
This is a specific way to cause a creature to learn a behavior by rewarding similar actions at first, and building towards the end goal slowly.
What is Shaping?
Need to let go of an emotion? Try doing this by giving it a name, and putting it out there in words. It might help you "move on" faster.
What is Affect Labeling?
Someone experiencing this kind of motivation would explain why they will do something they don't enjoy just to get the reward that it will bring.
What is Extrinsic Motivation?
The outside of the brain is called this; which also means "bark" in Latin. (Tree, not dog.)
...someone at this stage of responding to a stress has just encountered it.
What is the Alarm Phase?
This is the term for an item that had innate, biological meaning to something even before any pairing took place.
What is the Unconditioned Stimulus?
Have something you want to remember for a long time? Make connections! Each different connection serves as one of these; essentially a hint that your brain can use to "find" what you are looking for.
What is a Retrieval Cue?
If someone cannot answer why, do this to the task. It makes someone a lot more likely to be able to explain their motivation.
What is make it harder?
This region of the brain is responsible for initiating a lot of emotional responses. If only it was calmer, maybe I would enjoy horror movies...
What is the Amygdala?
...something that causes a recurring or drawn-out stress in someone's life is one of these.
What is a Chronic Stressor?
This occurs when a previously reliable cue is shown repeatedly to no longer predict that a reward or punishment is coming.
What is Extinction?