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Learning
Biological Perspective
Memory
100
Taking information in through the senses.
What is encoding?
100
Fiber that carries neural messages to other cells.
What is an Axon?
100
This type of memory includes emotional associations and habits.
What is Nondeclarative or Procedural memory?
200
memory aid of repeating items over and over.
What is elaborative rehearsal?
200
Cells can allow postively or negatively charged ions through the cell wall.
What is semipermeable?
200
This memory includes personal history and events.
What is episodic memory?
300
An involuntary response to a naturally ocurring stimulus.
What is Unconditioned Response?
300
When the cell receives a strong enough impulse from another cell the cell reacts.
What is the all or none principle?
300
The effect that states if you study a list you tend to remember the first words on the list.
What is the primacy effect?
400
law that states if a response is followed by a pleasurable consequence it is likely to be repeated.
What is Thorndike's Law of Effect?
400
Two parts of the Peripheral Nervous system.
What are the Somatic and Autonomic Nervous Systems?
400
Stimulus for remembering.
What is a retrieval cue?
500
Schedule of reinforcement in which the interval of time that passes before reinforcement is different each time.
What is Variable Interval schedule of reinforcement?
500
Uses X-rays to show structures of the brain.
What is a CT scan?
500
Memory for a particular significant or emotional event.
What is Flashbulb memory?