Remember the next day
This is the tendency to remember information better when learning over a long period of time, compared to cramming.
What is Spacing effect?
A system of rules that help us communicate and understand others.
What is Grammar?
The brains sensory switchboard; directs information from sensory receptors to areas in the cortex.
What is Thalamus?
A pyramid created by Abraham Maslow which begins with psychological needs that must be satisfied before higher levels.
What is Hierarchy of Needs?
The major source of energy in the human body.
What is Glucose?
The tendency to recall information more accurately when in the same environment/mood as when the information was learned.
What is Mood Congruent?
Units of basic sound, such as "th"
What is Phonemes?
A neural system that contains the hippocampus, amygdala, and hypothalamus; controls emotions and drive.
What is Limbic system?
The maintenance of a steady internal state.
What is Homeostasis?
This part of the hypothalamus stimulates our body when hungry.
What is Lateral Hypothalamus?
This is a form of memory that only lasts a few tenths of a second;a fleeing photographic memory.
What is Iconic Memory?
These are rules for combining words into a grammatically correct sentence.
What is Syntax?
This is the area behind the frontal lobe that controls voluntary movement.
What is motor cortex?
Imprinting is a fixed pattern in species so its associated with this theory of motivation.
What is Instinct Theory?
This is a eating disorder where girls are 85% less of their ideal body weight.
What is Anorexia?
Attributing the wrong source to an event; such as hearing it form someone else's story;main source of false memories.
What is Source Amnesia?
The ability to comprehend speech.
What is Receptive Language?
An impairment of language by damage to the Broca's or Wernicke's area.
What is Aphasia?
A positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior.
What is Incentive Theory?
This is the body resting rate of energy expenditure.
What is Basal Metabolic Rate?
This is the one sin of intrusion is forgetting; Reoccurring, unwanted memories.
What Is Persistence?
The ability to produce words; comes after receptive language.
What is Productive Language?
The formation of new neurons.
What is Neurogenesis?
After studying the Relationship of arousal performance, two psychologist identifies that moderate arousal would lead to optimal performance.
What is Yerkes-Dodson Law?
The specific body weight maintained automatically by most adults over a long period of time.
What is Set Point?