Brainy Bunch
The system that includes the brain and spinal cord.
The Nervous System
The means by which we actively process a limited amount of information from the enormous amount of information available through our senses, our stored memories and our other cognitive processes.
Attention
The ability to encode, store, and retrieve information
Memory
How you transform a physical, sensory input into a kind of representation that can be placed into memory.
Encoding
A developmental process where ideas evolve over time through a pattern of transformation.
Dialectic Process
This makes the color of the brain grey.
Neurons
Instance theory
Signal-detection Theory
Feature-Integration Theory
Similarity Theory
Theories of Perception
We use information from memory but are not consciously aware of doing so.
Implicit Memory
Competing information interferes with our storing information
Inferences
Engage in intensive study of single individuals, drawing general conclusions about behaviour. (Methods of Research)
Case Studies
The region of the brain located toward the top and front of the brain.
The forebrain
We prudently allocate our available attentional resources to coordinate our performance of more than one task at a time, as when we are cooking and engaged in a phone conversation at the same time.
Divided Attention
a profound loss of explicit memory
Amnesia
Refers to the act of spacing out study sessions to increase recall and information input.
The Spacing Effect
“cogito, ergo sum"
I think, therefore, I am.
The outer layer of the cerebral hemispheres
The Cerebral cortex
This process requires sequential conscious control that takes place one step at a time and relatively takes longer than an automatic process to execute.
Controlled Process
An aging-related illness that causes dementia as well as progressive memory loss
Alzheimer's disease
To visualize walking around an area with distinctive, well-known landmarks and link the various landmarks to specific items to be remembered. (Mnemonic Device)
Method of Loci
Route to knowledge is through thinking and logical analysis
Experiments are not need
Rationalism
This part of the brain relays incoming sensory information through groups of neurons that project to the appropriate region in the cortex.
Thalamus
You try to remember something that is stored in memory but that cannot readily be retrieved.
Tip of the tongue Phenomenon
Someone with a sharp recall capacity.
Mnemonist
This theory asserts that information is forgotten because of the gradual disappearance, rather than displacement, of the memory trace.
Decay
In the cognitive revolution began.
1950s