Memory
This is the first part of memory forming, involving getting information into the brain.
What is encoding?
This type of research investigates one person in depth but is typically not generalizable to the public.
What is a case study?
This part of the brain connects the right and left hemisphere.
What is the corpus callosum?
This classification of drugs induce relaxation by slowing down neural activity.
What are depressants?
Every time Alex wears her red scarf, she gets an A on her test. This prompts Alex to wear her scarf every day without washing it.
This part of the brain processes implicit memories, such as swimming.
What is the cerebellum?
This is variation around the mean. A large one on a test give Ms. Duvall some worry.
What is standard deviation?
These are neural clusters in the limbic system linked to emotions like aggression.
What is the amygdala?
This type of processing occurs from receiving sensory input.
What is bottom-up processing?
Discomfort that follows discontinuing the use of a drug.
What is withdrawal?
This increase in neural firing is considered the basis of learning and memory
What is long-term potentiation?
"I knew it all along!" Joey says when they finished their murder mystery novel.
What is hindsight bias?
This part of the brain is involved in language comprehension and expression.
What is Wernicke's area?
This neurotransmitter is greatly affected by the use of opiates.
What are endorphins?
This is the connection point between the terminal branches of one neuron and the dendrite of another.
What is the synapse?
The effect of this is the prevention of remembering older, long-term memories.
What is retrograde amnesia?
This perspective in psychology focuses on the potential of personal human growth.
What is the humanist perspective?
Janine was given this type of scan when her doctor had her ingest radioactive glucose and perform different tasks.
What is a PET scan?
Surrounding content can make an object seem lighter or darker
What is relative luminence?
This is the primary inhibitory neurotransmitter.
What is GABA?
This "replaying" of memories can alter them, possibly leading to inaccuracies.
What is reconsolidation?
This occurs when neither the participants nor the research assistants who collect data will know who is receiving experimental treatment.
What is a double-blind procedure?
This stage of action potential is when sodium invades the cell and potassium leaves.
What is repolarization?
This theory of how we hear is based on that different parts of the cochlea determines how we can tell the sound's pitch.
What is place theory?
This is the study of molecular mechanisms where environments trigger genetic expression.
What is epigenetics?