Topic 1: Brain
These are the two main parts of the human nervous system.
What are the Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems
The two terms that describe the visual and auditory processes
What is Sensation and perception?
These three main processes are involved in memory formation and retrieval
What are encoding, storage, and retrieval?
This type of learning occurs when a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a reflexive response
What is Classical conditioning?
We studied culture and musical perception.
Who are Patel and Demorest?
This lobe processes visual information
What is the Occipital Lobe?
The stage of sensation and perception when a sense organ detects the stimulus.
What is reception?
This type of memory can hold around 7 items, for about 18-30 seconds
What is Short-term memory?
The type of learning when behaviours are influenced by environment.
What is behaviourism?
Grant et al. studied matched versus mismatched environments and retrieval cues which connects to this part of the syllabus.
What is context-dependent memory?
This lobe is responsible for higher-order thinking and decision-making
What is the Frontal lobe?
A predisposition to perceive visual stimuli in a particular way.
What is perceptual set?
These are the 3 components of the multi-store model of memory.
What are Sensory, short-term, and long-term memory?
This form of learning is based on the consequences of behaviour, such as rewards or punishments.
What is Operant conditioning?
We studied how culture influences the interpretation of visual information.
Who are de Bruine, Vredeveldt and van Koppen?
Damage to these areas causes broken speech or incomprehensible expression.
What are Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas?
The perceived highness or lowness of a sound.
What is pitch?
The part of the working memory model that controls attention and coordinates systems.
What is the central executive?
What is vicarious conditioning?
This box was used in operant conditioning studies.
What is the Skinner box?
When interfered with, this neurotransmitter contributes to Alzheimers’ disease.
What is Acetycholine?
The rules of human perception that explain how the brain groups individual elements, recognises patterns, and simplifies complex images into a whole.
What are Gestalt principles?
A method to improve memory by grouping things together.
What is chunking?
When the beeping stops in your car after you plug in your seat belt. This is an example of:
What is Negative reinforcement?
This study raises issues for legal and real-world decision making.
Who are de Bruine, Vredeveldt & van Kroppen?