Mnemonic Men
Methods of Memory
Messed Up Memories
Mental Maladys
Mind Medicine Metamorphoses
100
Simonides was able to perform this great feat of memory in Ancient Greece.
What is remember the names and seating locations of guests that were crushed by a collapsing banquet hall?
100
These are the two major forms of long term memory.
What are declarative and nondeclarative memory?
100
Lesions to this area of the brain would prevent fear conditioning in rats.
What is the amygdala?
100
In much of early human history, mental illness was often attributed to arising from this, rather than being caused by physical ailments in the brain.
What is the spiritual/godly/metaphysical realm?
100
This now thousand page volume is considered Emil Kraeplin's legacy and is an attempt to classify and differentiate amongst hundreds of different mental disorders.
What is the DSM?
200
This is what Semon described as the engram.
What is the permanent physical change that takes place within the brain to result in the storage of memories?
200
This is known as the Mere Exposure Effect.
What is the preference for something over other novel stimuli based solely on having been exposed to it before?
200
Declarative memory was severely impaired for patient H.M. due to the damage to these areas of his brain.
What are the medial temporal lobe, the hippocampus, and the perirhinal cortex?
200
This condition is formed usually in response to a traumatic triggering event?
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?
200
These classes of medications are used to treat various mental illness by increasing the amount of neurotransmitter within the synapse.
What are reuptake inhibitors and various neurotransmitter-ase digestive enzyme inhibitors?
300
This man became famous for his study of digestion in dogs.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
300
These combinations of study and testing techniques was shown to the best way to actually learn and be able to recall material, according to the Karpicke and Roediger study.
What is studying either the entire list or just missed words on the list but still testing the entire word list each time?
300
These are the pathophysiological indicators that are used to diagnose Alzheimer's, often post mortem.
What is beta-amyloid plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, and extensive loss of neurons (grey matter) resulting in a marked decrease in brain size?
300
Bipolar disorder is characterized by these states and related conditions.
What are a depressive state, characterized with lethargy, fatigue, low affect, and extreme low self esteem as well as a manic state, characterized with mania, hyperactivity, grandiose feelings and extreme high self esteem, and occasionally psychosis?
300
These dangerous methods were the primary course of treatment during the early 20th century due to their ability to control and mellow patients.
What are lobotomies, insulin comas, malaria exposure, and electroconvulsive shock therapy?
400
Lashley make this erroneous assumption about the location of memories in the brain.
What is memories are stored diffusely across the cortex and are not localized in any specialized locations within the brain?
400
This is the idea of the memory palace or method of loci described in Rhetorica ad Herennium.
What is tying random objects, names, numbers, etc. to places in your home or familiar location so that they can be recalled more easily?
400
Risk factors that increase the likelihood for developing Alzheimer's disease include all of these.
What are aging, Down's Syndrome, TBIs and concussions, ApoE-4, and lack of cognitive reserve?
400
These are the symptoms of schizophrenia categorized into the two symptom classes.
What are positive symptoms such as hallucinations, delusions, and thought disorders and negative symptoms such as depression and social withdrawal?
400
These are the tenets of the therapeutic technique known as moral treatment.
What are the removal of bindings, psychological dominance, close patient observation and interaction, providing of simple comforts, and guidance through kindness and firmness?
500
These were the order in which forms of memory were lost in retrograde amnesia according to Ribot?
What are loss of recent events, ideas and concepts, past events, feelings and affections, then finally habits?
500
This process is described as classical conditioning.
What is the pairing of a US to a CS which at first triggers a UR, but over time, leads to the CS eventually producing a CR without the US.
500
These are all symptoms of dementia disorders.
What are memory impairments, cognitive impairments, sensory impairments, language deficits, motor difficulties, and hallucinations?
500
Patients with PTSD show increased activity in this area of the brain.
What is the amygdala?
500
The Reform and Consumer/Survivor Movements were created in response to these occurrences in the treatment of the mentally ill.
What are forced and abusive treatment, civil rights violations, and poor quality and little treatment effectiveness?
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