Unit 1
A vivid memory due to emotional significance.
What is a flashbulb memory?
Area that processes auditory stimulation / information, located above ears.
What are the temporal lobes?
Logical procedure to solve a problem
What is a heuristic?
The belief, after learning an outcome, that you would've foreseen it.
What is hindsight bias?
Part of the brain that aids in storing procedural memory.
What is the basal ganglia?
The connection between the axon tip of the sending neuron and dendrite of the receiving neuron.
What is a synapse?
The study of brain activity linked with cognition (perception, thinking, learning, memory, language).
What is cognitive neuroscience?
Part of the eye that processes visual information from rods and cones.
What is the retina?
The psychological perspective that focuses on human potential for growth.
What is the humanistic perspective?
A cluster of sensations grouped as a whole.
What is gestalt?