Motivation
A desire to perform a behavior for its own sake
Intrinsic motivation
Maslow
Suggested certain needs have more importance than others.
Hippocampus
Moves the short term memories into long term memory vaults.
True or false: sleep helps memory
Oldest part of the brain
Brainstem
A desire to perform a behavior due to promised rewards or threats of punishment
Extrinsic motivation
Paul Ekman
People all over the world share 6 basic emotions and they are all expressed the same.
flashbulb memory
When emotions/events trigger certain memories to come back.
True or false: sleep relates to growth
True
Thalamus
Sensory processer
Drive reduction theory
A physiological need creates an aroused tension state (a drive) that motivates an organism to satisfy the need
Freud
Created the id, ego, superego concept and focused his study on childhood upbringings.
3 stages of memory
Encoding, storage, retrieval
Frightening dreams that wake a sleeper from REM
Nightmares
Cerebellum
Responsible for coordination
Cognitive dissonance
2 clashing ideas within one's head.
Elizabeth Loftus
Expert in the misinformation effect and false memory. Known for her experiment with a car crash and having eyewitnesses change their memory of the accident.
Best way to memorize
Semantic approach: making stories up that go along with the memory.
Sleep apnea
Trouble breathing when sleeping
Broca's Area
Ability to understand speech but the lack of ability to produce speech.
What is the base of Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
Aaron Beck
Known for his experience in cognitive development and focused on depression. He believed if people had depression, they had negative internal thoughts about themselves.
List of letters we had to memorize in class one time
M U T G I K T L R S Y P
About every 90 minutes, we pass through a cycle of how many distinct sleep stages?
5
Wernicke's Area
Causes speech with only meaningless words