Neuro
The basic principle of brain organization that says that specific areas of the brain serve specific functions
What is “Localization of Function”?
Groups of neurons that are connected structurally and are functionally related.
What are "Neural Networks"?
The Dutch physiologist known for conducting one of the first ever cognitive psychology experiments almost 100 years before the term had even been coined.
Who is “Franciscus Donders”?
The enhanced memory in older people when recalling events from adolescence and early adulthood.
What is a Remeniscience Bump?
MPI refers to this, related to the misinformation effect.
What is Misleading Postevent Information?
The area of the temporal lobe known to be used in facial recognition
What is the “Fusiform Face Area”?
The phenomenon in which the brain's structure changes depending on personal experience.
What is "Experience-Dependent Plasticity?"
The approach to psychology which dominated in the late 1800s and early 1900s and explains perception as the adding up of small elementary units called sensations.
What is “Structuralism”?
Often associated with nostalgia, they are memories that are better recalled due to an association with music.
What are MEAMs (Music Enhanced Autobiographical Memories)?
Though extremely vivid, these types of memories are often inaccurate.
What are Flashbulb Memories?
Types of memories involving events in a person’s life, such as what you did on your 10th birthday
What are “Episodic Memories”?
The condition where people can recognize that a face is a face, but are unable to tell who the person is based on facial features.
What is "Prosopagnosia"?
This famous experiment in which a ringing bell was paired with the presentation of food in order to condition a dog to salivate by the sound of the bell alone is an example of ______.
What is “Classical Conditioning”?
The phenomenon that information presented after an event can alter an individual’s memory of said event.
What is the Misinformation Effect?
The enhanced probability of evaluating a statement as being true upon repeated presentation is called this.
What is the Illusory Truth Effect?
The idea that one cognitive function activates many different regions of the brain
What is “Distributed Representation”?
The major brain network that decreases in activity when focusing on a task, and increases in activity when we allow the mind to wander (helping us solve problems!)
What is the "Default Mode Network"?
B. F. Skinner’s book Verbal Behavior claimed that children learn language through operant conditioning. Linguist Noam Chomsky published a scathing review of this book, arguing instead that language is ______.
What is “An Inborn Biological Program”?
The failure to correctly identify where an individual learned a particular piece of information.
What is a Source Monitoring Error (Source Misattribution)?
Common in eyewitness identification settings, it is an increase in confidence due to confirming feedback after making an identification.
What is the Post-Identification Feedback Effect?
Someone who has incoherent, but fluent and grammatically correct, speech may have damage to this area in the temporal lobe
What is “Wernicke’s Area”?
Neurons that respond best to a specific stimulus (such as movement, shape, length, etc.)
What are “Feature Detectors”?
These conferences on ______ mark the beginning of a shift in the field of psychology during the 50s and 60s known as the cognitive revolution.
What is “Artificial Intellegence”?
An experiment showing cultural bias in which a Canadian folk tale was read by English participants and then recalled at later intervals.
What is Bartlett’s “War of the Ghosts” Experiment?
The unconscious plagiarism of the work of others.
What is Cryptomnesia?