Cognitive Approach
This theory explains how memories are reconstructed, often leading to distortions.
What is Schema Theory?
A stress hormone. It is released by the adrenal cortex in response to a stressor.
What is Cortisol?
This study showed a video of a car crash and investigated how leading questions influence memory recall.
This model suggests that memory consists of sensory, short-term, and long-term stores.
What is the multi-store memory model?
This part of the brain is associated with memory formation.
What is the hippocampus?
This study on London taxi drivers found that spatial navigation skills can change brain structure.
What is Maguire et al. (2000)?
The process of fixing information in the LTM.
What is confabulation?
The changes in neural pathways and synapses due to changes in behaviour, environment, thinking and emotions, as well as changes resulting from bodily injury.
What is neuroplasticity?
What is Brown and Kulik's experiment?
This bias occurs when people seek out information that confirms their preexisting beliefs.
What is confirmation bias?
These substances increase the effect of a neurotransmitter by mimicking its action, while the other substance blocks or reduces the effect of neurotransmitters.
What are Agonists and Antagonists?
This study examined obedience to authority using electric shock experiments.
What was Milgram's experiment?
Anything that creates an emotional response.
What is affective stimuli?
These types of neurotransmitters increase the likelihood of a neuron firing, while these other neurotransmitters decrease it.
What are Excitatory and Inhibitory neurotransmitters?
This famous experiment by Zimbardo demonstrated how people conform to social roles, leading to extreme behavior in a simulated prison setting.
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?