Biology and Neuroscience
The name for an electical bust of energy when neurons transmit messages
What is an action potential?
When we combine the incoming message with our understand of the world to interpret information in a way that makes sense to us
What is Top-down Processing?
A type of surgery that cuts the connection between the two hemispheres of the brain
What is Split Brain Surgery?
A type of learning that originated from an experiment involving dogs and lab coats
What is Pavlovian Conditioning?
AKA forgetting, sometimes we are unable to retrieve information because it has been forgotten due to the interference of new information we've learned over time
The part of the autonomic NS that:
Originate in the lower brain and sacral spinal cord
Recover, digest, become sexually aroused
What is the parasympathic NS?
Type of photoreceptor, most responsive to low levels of light, found in periphery
What are Rods?
Rapid-eye movement, desynchronized beta waves, eyes will move from side to side, when you dream, sleep paralysis
What is REM sleep?
Skills we are born with, not a result of learning
What are Innate Skills?
The problem the brain must solve in order to maintain information over time, long or short.
What is a storage problem?
type of neurotransmitter that causes the charge inside a neuron to move away from activation
What is an inhibitory neurotransmitter?
Physical measurement of pitch, or how high/low a sound is, measured in hertz (Hz)
What is Frequency?
when intake of oxygen is reduced as the person sleeps, breathing can stop entirely, CPAP machine
What is Sleep Apnea?
responding differently to different events, the opposite of stimulus generalization
What is stimulus discirmination?
Memories whos content pertains to how something is done, such as the motor skills in walking
What is procedural memory?
What is Wernickes Area?
comparisons made between the arrival time of sound in each ear for sound localization
Interaural Time differences
Occurs from lesions on the right parietal lobe of the cortex
Causes loss of awareness of visual stimuli on the left
What is Visual Neglect?
taking away a consequence to decrease the behaviour (Yelling at your sister, then losing your allowance)
What is Negative Punishment?
where visual and spatial information is stored and manipulated
What is the visuospatial sketchpad?
When a cell has a charge far away from 0 (ex. -70mV)
What is Polarization?
Our sense of balance
What is Vestibular Sense?
Group of drugs that cause sedation, induces sleep, prescribed for anxiety disorders
what is a Barbiturate?
The four stages of social learning
what is attentional, retention, production and motivational
a system that keeps information translate by the sensed briefly active in a relatively unaltered, unexamined form, allows us to see the world as a whole, instead of staggered moments
Sensory Memory