Memory
The Brain
Sensation and Perception
Conditioning Mashup
The 1960s
100
This is the shortest form of memory
What is sensory memory?
100
This part of the brain is primarily responsible for human intelligence and the ability to acquire complex skills.
What is the cerebral cortex?
100
This is the process of detecting physical stimuli with a sense organ.
What is Sensation?
100
A relatively permanent change in behavior as a result of experience.
What is learning?
100
This term describes drugs such as cocaine, meth, and speed.
What is an upper?
200
A memory that is associated with strong emotions, but not increased accuracy in recall.
What is the soma?
200
This is a band of fibers that connect the two hemispheres of the brain.
What is the corpus callosum?
200
This is the process by which the brain organizes sensations into meaningful patterns.
What is perception?
200
This term refers to any consequence of a response (or behavior) that increases the likelihood of that behavior reoccurring.
What is reinforcement?
200
People have dreams that are quite bizarre during this stage of sleep.
What is REM?
300
This is the term for when a nerve impulse is sent down an axon.
What is an action potential?
300
This is the area of the cerebral cortex that has a primary role in vision.
What is the occipital lobe?
300
This is the minimum amount of energy needed for a sensation to occur.
What is the absolute threshold?
300
This term refers to what a neutral stimulus becomes after it is paired with an unconditioned stimulus.
What is a conditioned stimulus?
300
This field of psychology, which really started to take off during the 1980s, began in the 1960s
What is cognitive psychology?
400
Memory of this type is useful for recalling facts (such as during a Jeopardy! game).
What is semantic memory?
400
The primary somatosensory area is located in this lobe of the brain.
What is the parietal lobe?
400
These are the visual receptors used to detect colors and bright light.
What are cones.
400
This term refers to any event that follows a response and decreases the likelihood of its occurring again.
What is a punishment?
400
The body's natural response to pain.
What are endorphins?
500
These two phenomena refer to the tendency to remember the first item in a list and the last item in a list, respectively.
What are the primacy and recency effects?
500
A person with intentional damage to the brain that disrupt's the right hemisphere's ability to communicate with the left hemisphere.
Who is a split brain patient?
500
This where sound is amplified in the ear canal.
What is the tympanic membrane (ear drum)?
500
The weakening of a conditioned response through the removal of the connection between the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus.
What is extinction?
500
Playing video games for many hours so that one can step away from life's troubles.
What is escapism?
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