Vision & Hearing
The part of the eye that contains photoreceptor cells.
What is the retina?
Part of the brain where taste perception happens.
What is the gustatory cortex?
What is an unconditioned stimulus (UCS)?
How information is first introduced into the memory system.
What is encoding?
A memory-enhancing strategy where you organize information into more simplified bits.
What is chunking?
One of the theories of color vision. States that three cone types are responsible for the colors we see.
What is the trichromatic theory?
Name of cells that respond to odor molecules in the air. Located at the top of the nasal cavity.
What are olfactory receptor cells?
Learning that is not observable until there is motivation to show it.
What is latent learning?
Type of memory only lasting 15-30 sec. Can hold about 7 items.
What is short-term memory?
The perceptual component sound wave amplitude is associated with.
What is loudness (or volume) of a sound?
Part of the auditory system that contains hair cells.
What is the cochlea?
Type of receptor on the skin that responds to skin stretch.
What is the Ruffini corpuscle?
When something is taken away from an individual's environment in order to increase a target behavior.
What is negative reinforcement?
A type of implicit memory, usually refers to learned skills that we no longer have to consciously think about.
What is procedural memory?
Type of memory interference when new information interferes with the recall of older information.
What is retroactive interference?
Type of sound localization cue that relies on intensity of the sound being louder at one ear vs. the other.
What is interaural level difference?
Type of pain that comes from tissue damage.
What is inflammatory pain?
A reinforcer that does not have inherent value on its own, but only because it is associated with food, water, touch, etc.
What is a secondary reinforcer?
Part of the brain responsible for moving STM to LTM.
What is the hippocampus?
Decrease in the conditioned response when you stop presenting the unconditioned stimulus together with the conditioned stimulus.
What is extinction?
Where information from the right visual field and the left visual field cross over.
What is the optic chiasm?
What are the semicircular canals?
Individuals who are performing the target behavior in observational learning.
What are models?
Type of amnesia where you stop being able to form new memories after the trauma.
What is anterograde amnesia?
Type of memory retrieval used in multiple choice tests.
What is recognition?