MEMORY
____ is how we take in information and transform it into a format that can be stored in the brain.
What is Encoding?
What brain region converts short-term explicit memories into long-term ones?
What is the Hippocampus?
Name the Three Basic Learning Processes.
What is Classical conditioning, Operant conditioning, and Observational learning?
At Baruch, what center provides free culturally-responsive and trauma-informed mental health services to undergraduate and graduate students?
What is the Counseling Center?
Information shared in therapy is private and cannot be shared without the client’s written consent.
What is Confidentiality?
While studying for a chemistry exam, Sarah converts a complex list of elements into a catchy 10-second song tune. Days later during the test, she recalls the answers by mentally playing back the melody in her head.
What is Acoustic encoding?
Every time Alex hears a specific chime on her phone, she receives a message from her crush, causing her heart to race. After two weeks, her heart starts pounding rapidly immediately upon hearing that chime—even when it turns out to be a low-battery alert. What type of conditioning does this represent?
What is Classical conditioning?
In operant conditioning, what is the main difference between a reinforcement and punishment?
What is an Increase in behavior and the Decrease in behavior?
During a therapy session, a client explicitly names a specific coworker and details a credible, imminent plan to assault them after work. Recognizing an obligation, the therapist immediately alerts both the police and the named victim.
What is Exceptions to Confidentiality; imminent risk of harm to self or others?
The first session in therapy, where the therapist gathers background information.
What is the Intake?
Known as the deepest form of encoding, it stores memory based on meaning rather than sound or images.
What is Semantic encoding?
Type of amnesia that describes the loss of memory for events that occurred prior to the trauma.
What is Retrograde amnesia?
In classical conditioning, the term for something that naturally causes a reaction.
What is the Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS)?
What mental health service today is designed to reach clients in everyday environments.
What is school-based and workplace counseling?
What system led to inadequate community support, contributing to homelessness, incarceration, and chronic instability for many with serious mental illness during the mid-20th century?
What is Deinstitutionalization?
In ____ you remember better when in the same emotional or physical state as during encoding.
What is state-dependent memory?
After watching her older brother carefully twist and pull apart an Oreo cookie to eat the cream filling first, four-year-old Lily immediately mimics his exact technique when handed her own cookie, despite never being shown or taught how to do it.
What is Observational Learning (Modeling)?
Kelly uses operant Conditioning in her growth strategy. To encourage her sales team to log client interactions daily, a manager introduces a policy where every completed daily log earns the employee a $10 coffee gift card. Within a month, daily log completion jumps by 80%.
What is Positive reinforcement?
After spending the entire weekend learning Spanish vocabulary, Jordan sits down to take his French exam on Monday morning, only to find that Spanish words keep popping up in his head whenever he tries to recall his old French lessons.
What is Retroactive interference?
Stigma, Language barriers, Mistrust, Financial and geographic barriers, and Cultural mismatch are all considered what?
What are Barriers to Mental Health Services Among Ethnic Minorities?
A type of long term memory... it's described as the unconscious memories that influence behavior.
What is Implicit (Non-declarative) Memory?
Innate, complex patterns of behavior that occur without prior learning.
What are instincts?
Rapid, involuntary reactions to specific stimuli. They are often protective mechanisms that help the body avoid harm.
What are Reflexes?
Getting enough sleep, being aware of interference, and applying the self-reference effect are all great for?
What is Studying?
This uses psychological techniques to improve functioning and addresses cognitive, emotional, and behavioral issues through talk-based interventions.
What is Psychotherapy?