LEARNING
Since the Pandemic we have seen an increase in behavioral response after lengthy or repeated exposure to a stimulus.
What is sensitization?
Your mom calls and asks you to pick up 5 things at the store. By the time you arrive you can only remember the first 2 items on the list.
What is primacy effect?
The 3-stage process for taking information in, retaining it, and later getting it back out.
What are Encoding, Storage, and Retrieval?
This helps to regulate your body's different systems such as temperature.
What is hypothalamus?
The left pre-frontal area of the brain is responsible for speech and is commonly referred to as...
What is Broca's area?
A type of learned response in which a neutral object comes to elicit a response when it is associated with a stimulus that already produces a response.
What is Classical Conditioning?
The most systematic procedure for solving a problem.
What is an Algorithm?
A term associated with short-term memory which focuses on the active processing that occurs during this stage.
What is Working Memory?
This is known for emotional states, impulse control, dreaming and food cravings?
What is serotonin?
This area consists of nerve cells outside of the brain and spinal cord.
What is the peripheral nervous system?
A learning process where an action's consequences determine how likely an action is to be performed in the future.
What is Operant Conditioning?
Steve use to be on the soccer team he can remember all of the games we played together but he can't seem to learn any new plays.
Anterograde amnesia?
When a person uses rehearsal, the conscious repetition of information, to help them remember.
What is Elaborative Rehearsal?
This helps calm anxious people and inhibits the effect of neurotransmitters in the brain.
What is Gabba?
Wear a helmet when riding your bike. If this area is damaged it will have lethal consequences.
What is the medulla?
This term states that any behavior leading to a satisfying state of affairs is likely to be repeated. (DD)
What is Thorndike's law of effect?
You notice that your new neighbor is neatly dressed, wears glasses, and is reading a Greek play. When given a choice of whether she is a librarian or a store clerk, you incorrectly guess that she is a librarian. You fell victim to this type of error. (DD)
What is the Representativeness Heuristic?
The tendency to misremember the time, place, person, or circumstances involved with a memory.
What is misattribution?
This is responsible for motor control over muscles.
What is acetycholine?
This is a system that uses hormones to influence the body, mental activity and behavior.
What is the endocrine system?
When individuals learn by imitating the behavior of someone else.
What is Observational Learning?
When the retrieval of a memory is enhanced in contexts that were similar to the one that existed when the memory was encoded.
What is context dependent memory?
When a new memory interferes with the retrieval of an old memory. (DD)
What is retroactive interference?
This helps swift neural transmission. (DD)
What is glutamate?
This thick band is used to connect the right and left hemisphere together.
What is the corpus callosum?