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Puzzle Perplexers
Sensory Stressors
Tricky Terms
Memory Mix-ups
Lost in Learning
100
How are body can change our perceptions.
What is Embodied Perception?
100
The hole which light enters through
What is the pupil?
100
The process of learning an association
What is Acquisition?
100
A patient who had bilateral removal of the hippocampus, causing the inability to form new memories.
Who is H.M.?
100
reinforcing the desired response every time it occurs
What is continuous reinforcement?
200
Memories for highly emotional or shocking events.
What are flash bulb memories?
200
The central part of the retina with the greatest acuity and color vision
What is the fovea?
200
A persistent change in behavior not attributed to fatigue or maturation.
What is learning?
200
A tool used to aid memory.
What is a mnemonic?
200
Learning by watching
What is observational learning?
300
A behavioral psychologist who invented the operant chamber.
Who is skinner?
300
Converting stimulus energies into neural impulses
What is Transduction?
300
Memory is better for items learned at the beginning of a list.
What is Primacy?
300
The process of pulling information out of storage.
What is retrieval?
300
a form of learning in which the conditioned stimulus is paired with an unconditioned stimulus without reward or punishment.
What is classical conditioning?
400
A type of memory involves skill learning and can take place even without hippocampi
What is Implicit Memory?
400
The snail shaped structure located in the inner ear.
What is the cochlea?
400
Sense of smell
What is olfaction?
400
Elizabeth Loftus created this term to describe how the exposure to misleading information causes impairment in memory
What is the misinformation effect?
400
A technique involving successive approximation
What is shaping?
500
Any device that connects with the nervous system and supplements or replaces functions, such as a cochlear implant
What is a neural prosthesis?
500
Our interpretation of sensory information
What is perception?
500
Our sense of balance
What is Vestibular Sense
500
damage to this seahorse shaped structure in the brain can cause memory loss.
What is the hippocampus?
500
A psychologist credited with establishing behaviorism. He conducted the controversial "little albert" experiment
What is John Watson?