FINALS Flashcards
(118 cards)
1
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Triggers depolarization and increases the likelihood of response.
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Excitatory Neurotransmitter
2
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Regulate the population of the neurons.
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Neuromodulators
3
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Triggers hyperpolarization and decreases the likelihood of response.
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Inhibitory
4
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The great feeling that you succeeded at meeting your needs.
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Dopamine
5
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It improves focus if high level but causes anxiety if low.
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GABA / Gamma Amino Butyric Acid
6
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Fight of Flight neurotransmitter.
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Adrenaline
7
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Produced by adrenal gland and synthesized by tyrosine.
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Adrenaline
8
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Synthesized by tryptophan.
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Serotonin
9
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Gives euphoria. Pain reliever.
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Endorphin
10
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3 chemical substance of the brain.
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Monoamine
Neuropeptide
Amino acid
11
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Attention and arousal.
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Acetylcholine / Ach
12
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Body’s chemical messenger.
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Neurotransmitter
13
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Activates when you feel important and need attention.
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Serotonin
14
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“Happy Hormone.”
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Serotonin
15
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How many seconds before body releases oxytocin during physical touch?
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20
16
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Good feeling when you’re with someone you trust.
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Oxytocin
17
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How many percent of people fall in love through body language?
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55%
18
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How many percent of people fall in love through the speed and tone of voice?
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38%
19
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How many percent of people fall in love through what the other say?
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7%
20
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The stage of love where you are “lovestruck”.
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Attraction
21
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Hormone released after sex.
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Vasopressin
22
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“The cuddle hormone”
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Oxytocin
23
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First stage of love or the sex-drive stage.
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Lust
24
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Sex hormones of men and women.
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Testosterone
Estrogen
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Stimulates "desire and reward"
Dopamine
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Form of positive/good stress.
Eustress
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Most important chemical when falling in love.
Serotonin.
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What disorder is related to falling in love according to Dr. Donatella Marazitti?
OCD / Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
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Obsession is partnered with what?
Compulsion
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Optimistic view of something. A phenomenon which all a person sees is beauty of things.
Rose Tinted Glass View
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Bond that keeps couple together long enough for them to have and raise children.
Attachment
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Hormone released during orgasm.
Oxytocin
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What's the first step of Arthur Aron's 34-Minute Experiment?
Find a stranger
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Whose theory is love language?
Gary Chapman
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5 love languages
```
Touch
Words
Service
Time
Gift
```
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Trying to detect the appearance of a particular stimulus in an environment with lots of unnecessary stuff.
Signal Detection and Vigilance
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The ability to focus on aspect of a scene and analyze it.
Attention
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The feeling of awareness.
Consciousness
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Fully committing into something when focused.
Engagement
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Ignoring what's important.
Disengagement
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Changing of focus when something important comes up.
Shifting
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Actively looking for something even without an idea where it will appear.
Searching
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Hinder/slow down the search process.
Display size
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One's ability to focus on a single talker in a noisy environment.
Cocktail Party Effect
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Focusing on a particular object and what matters.
Selective Attention
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Multitasking.
Divided Attention
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Factor that influence attention by being anxious. Either by nature or situation.
Anxiety
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Factor that your overall state affects your attention. (Tired, drowsy, excited)
Arousal
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Factor that influences performance during divided attention.
Task Difficulty
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Theory of people having limited perceptual capacity.
Load Theory of Attention
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The inability to detect changes in objects or scene.
Change Blindness
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The inability to see things that are actually there.
Inattentional Blindess
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Types of ADHD
Inattentional
Hyperactive
Combined
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Attentional dysfunction which participants ignore half of their visual field.
Spatial Neglect
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The superior recall in the end of the list.
Recency Effect.
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The superior recall on the beginning of the list.
Primacy Effect.
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Theory by R. Arkinson & R. Shiffin where people tend to remember the first and last words best.
Serial Position Effect
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How many words can people remember overtime?
5
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How many letters can people remember overtime?
6
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How many digits can people remember overtime?
5-9
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How many visuals can people remember overtime?
1-5
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How many units of information can human brain retain?
7 / Magic Number 7
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New information interferes with old info and makes them forget it.
Retroactive
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Old info interferes with new learning.
Proactive
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Refers to the view that forgetting occurs because recall of certain words interferes with recall of other words.
Interference Theory
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Elaborates the items to be remembered.
Elaborative Rehearsal
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Repetitiously rehearse the items to be remembered.
Maintenance Rehearsal
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"Primary or Active Memory". The info that we're currently aware of our thinking.
Short-term memory
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Auditory sensory memories.
Echoic memory
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Visual sensory memories.
Iconic memory
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Holds an exact replica of stimulus for a very brief amount of time.
Sensory Memory
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Requires effort and attention to be encoded.
Effortful Processing
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Encoded automatically and without effort.
Automatic Processing
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How memory works? (In order)
Stimulus - Sensory Organ - Sensory Memory - Short-term memory - Long-term memory
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Usage of information stored in memory.
Retrieval
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Keeping of encoded info.
Storage
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Transformation of data into a form of mental representation.
Encoding
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The process of maintaining info overtime.
Memory
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Memory of events.
Episodic Memory
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Memory of facts, meanings, concepts.
Semantic Memory
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"Body Memory". Unconscious memory of skills.
Procedural Memory
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Continuing storage of information.
Long-term Memory
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The ability to identify previously encountered material.
Recognition
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The ability to retrieve and reproduce from memory previously encountered material.
Recall
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Recall any items in any order.
Free Recall
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Recall items in exact order.
Serial Recall
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Recall items in pair.
Cued Recall
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Very long storage of information.
Permastore
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Bridge for information in Short-TM to be transferred to Long-TM.
Working Memory
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Briefly holds some visual images.
Visuospatial Sketchpad
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Briefly holds the inner speech for verbal comprehension.
Phonological Loop
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Holds the information in memory.
Phonological Storage
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Used to put the information into memory in the first place.
Subvocal Rehearsal
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More pronounced when the information is presented visually versus aurally.
Articulatory Suppression Phenomenon
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Coordinates attentional activities and governs responses.
Central Executive
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The limited capacity system that's capable of binding information from visuospatial sketchpad and the phonological loop as well as Long-TM into unitary episodic representation.
Episodic Buffer
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"Psychogenic Amnesia". Due to psychological trauma.
Functional Amnesia
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Creating a whole new personality because they forgot who they are.
Dissociative Fugue
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Multiple Personality
DID / Dissociative Identity Disorder
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Amnesia in the first years of life.
Infantile Amnesia
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Trying to remember a familiar piece of info but can't quite do it.
Tip of the tongue phenomenon
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Frozen in time caused by stress hormone.
Mental Block
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Storing related ideas in a separated categories or files called NODES.
Network Theory
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Personal associations that are followed in order to remember something.
Cognitive Map
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"Motivated Forgetting". Defense mechanism to banish anxiety-producing information.
Repression
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Memory was encoded and stored but sometimes you cannot just access the memory,
Retrieval Failure
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Memories decay/fade away gradually if unused.
Decay Theory
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Once the information is kicked out of the brain, it's gone.
Displacement
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"Seen Before"
Deja Vu
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"Never before"
Jamais Vu
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Ways to improve encoding and create better retrieval cues by forming images.
Mnemonics
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Association of new items to already-memorized items to be easily recalled.
Method of Loci
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Rhyming items to be memorized.
Peg Method
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Information may never be encoded to LTM.
Encoding Failure
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Loss of memory
Amnesia
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Trauma to the physical brain structure.
Organic Amnesia
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Cannot form new memories.
Anterograde Amnesia
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Cannot recall events before injury.
Retrograde Amnesia
