Neuroscience
Part of the brain that regulates heart rating, breathing, sleep and eating
What is the brain stem?
Sense triggered when you taste freshly grilled salmon
What is gustation?
The information-processing approach to memory compares the brain to this
What is a computer?
Learning that occurs while watching others and then imitating, or modeling, what they do or say
What is observational learning?
A relatively permanent change in behavior or knowledge that results from experience
What is learning?
Part of the brain responsible for balance and coordination
What is the cerebellum?
Sense triggered when you smell cookies in the oven
What is olfaction?
How information enters our brain via our 5 senses.
What is encoding?
In operant conditioning when something is removed to increase the likelihood of a behavior
What is Negative Reinforcement?
Psychological Theory/Field that includes the following concepts: figure-ground relationship, law of continuity, and principle of closure
What is Gestalt?
Part of the Limbic system most responsible for feelings of fear and aggression.
What is the amygdala?
Sense that contributes to our ability to maintain balance and body posture
What is vestibular?
How we save information in our brain
What is storage?
An association is learned between a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus
What is classical conditioning?
How sensory information is interpreted and consciously experienced
What is perception?
Part of the Limbic System heavily involved in learning and memory.
Nerve that carries visual information from the retina to the brain
What is optic?
How we locate and then use information stored in our brain
What is retrieval?
Learning based on associating a response with its consequence (rewards and punishments)
What is operant/instrumental learning?
The ability to strategically choose between and sort out different stimuli in the environment. It is the key to encoding.
Term used to describe idea that each hemisphere of the brain has some amount of specialization of structure and function.
What is lateralization?
Type of processing that involves the interpretation of sensations and is influenced by available knowledge, experiences, and thoughts
Initial, fleeting storage that lasts only a moment.
What is sensory memory?
Learning that occurs but is not observable in behavior until there is a reason to demonstrate it
What is latent learning?
Fatty substance covering some axons that helps speed neural transmission
What is the myelin sheath?