Perception
Using prior knowledge to process sensory information.
What is top down processing?
These are the 3 basic steps in the memory process.
What are encoding, storage, and retrieval?
The part of the brain controls executive functioning, thinking, planning, organizing, problem-solving, emotions, behavior, and personality
What is the Frontal Lobe?
This is another term for short-term memory.
What is working memory?
Processing strategy of spacing out rehearsal over a period time.
What is distributed practice?
Being able to focus on a conversation in a crowded room.
What is selective attention?
The activation, often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory.
What is priming?
Crucial for formation of long-term memories and spatial navigation?
What is the Hippocampus?
Any memories that are held just long enough to be perceived.
What is Sensory Memory?
We can usually remember things that are at the beginning and end of our experience (such as making a grocery list)
What is the serial position effect? (Recency, Primacy)
Gestalt principle where the brain fills in missing information to perceive a complete object.
What is closure?
You probably don't remember because you never learned it! Yeah, you on your phone!
What is encoding failure?
This part of the brain is important for auditory processing, language comprehension, and memory formation.
What is the Temporal Lobe?
Sensory input to the visual system goes into this place.
What is Iconic Memory?
These photoreceptor cells in the retina are responsible for color vision and high visual acuity, while their counterparts specialize in low-light, black-and-white vision.
What are cones and rods?
Necker Cube
What is an example of a reversible figure?
This is the type of encoding that enables deep processing, and good memory - because the memory has meaning.
What is semantic encoding.
Involved in emotion processing, especially fear and threat detection.
What is the Amygdala?
The information we are currently aware and thinking about.
What is short-term memory?
This is the highest level of processing in a feature net, where a familiar combination of letters is recognized as meaningful.
What is a word detector?
The difference between the two eyes' view resulting in perception of depth.
What is binocular disparity?
One of the first psychologists to scientifically study memory and forgetting.
Who was Hermann Ebbinghaus?
The four main lobes of the brain.
What are frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital?
Memories we hold for periods of time longer than a few seconds.
What is Long-Term Memory?
While one method captures real-time brain activity through changes in blood oxygenation, the other uses magnetic fields to induce temporary brain activity changes.
What is the difference between fMRI and TMS?