The Brain
What are neurons?
The region of the brain that includes the pons and medulla.
What is the brainstem?
The memory store containing brief but very information-dense 'flashes' of vision and sound.
What is sensory memory?
Best measure of variability if you're using the mean?
What is standard deviation?
Most dreaming occurs in which stage of sleep?
REM
The portion of the nervous system that includes the brain and the spinal cord
What is the central nervous system?
A single long extension from the nerve cell that carries action potentials from the cell body to other cells
Axon
The control centre for working memory.
What is the central executive?
Ratio
What resource/text do psychologists use to make diagnoses?
DSM-5 OR ICD-11
Our sense of space, distance, and position is mostly organised in the __________ lobe.
What is the parietal lobe?
A temporal lobe structure that is important for encoding and retrieving explicit memories.
What is the hippocampus?
This model of memory talks about shallow, deep, semantic, and acoustic encoding of memories.
What is Levels of Processing?
If p = 0.001, the difference between conditions is...
significant
LInguistic, logical-math, spatial, musical, kinaesth, naturalistic, intrapers, interpers
Responsible for strong emotions like fear and anger, and also helps encode episodic memories.
What is the amygdala?
The division of the nervous system responsible for increasing arousal, and triggering the fight/flight/freeze response.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
The number of 'items' that can be consistently held in short-term/working memory; the 'magic number'
7 +/- 2
5-9
If sample size is high, data is interval/ratio, and variance is roughly equivalent, your data is probably...
Parametric / normal
ECT stands for...
Electro-convulsive therapy
Which neurological disease is caused by degeneration of the basal ganglia and lower dopamine production?
What is Parkinson's disease?
The specific neurotransmitter/chemical that relates to long-term mood, sleep, and sexual function.
What is seratonin?
The type of long-term memory encoded by the cerebellum.
Procedural / implicit
Standard error
If your parents give you $10 per 'A' you get in a term, what type of motivation is this?
Extrinsic