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memory and brain Flashcards

1
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alpha wave

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relaxed/normal consciousness

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beta wave

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more alert, higher freq

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theta wave

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children, meditation, stage 1 sleep

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delta

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slow wave sleep

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concentration, planning, problem solving, movement of body, personality, meaning of words, speech, smell

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frontal lobe

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hearing, recognizing faces, emotion, working to long term mem

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temporal lobe

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7
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memory

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hippocampus

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8
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tough and pressure, taste, body awareness

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parietal lobe

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9
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visual processing

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occipital lobe

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10
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coordination of movements, balance, motor memory

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cerebellum

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11
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speech production

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broca

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12
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speech understanding

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wernickes

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13
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altertness and arousal controlled by

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reticular activating system

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14
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amygdala

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anger and aggression, emotion

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15
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hormones, homeostasis, ANS

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hypothalamus

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16
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nueroimaging: functional techniques (measure what Brian regions are doing)

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PET, fMRI, EEG

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17
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neuroimaging: structural techniques (measure what brain looks like)

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CT, MRI

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18
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changes in synaptic connections in brain

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memory

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19
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central to memory and learning

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hippocampus

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20
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central executive

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phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad, episodic buffer

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21
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rehearsal, chunking, elaboration, self-reference, spacing, nmeomics are types of

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encoding

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22
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explicit mem

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conscious recall

23
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implicit mem

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without conscious recall

24
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episodic mem

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autobiographical, events you have personally experienced

25
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semantic memory

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general knowledge of facts and info (spreading activation)

26
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procedural learning

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motor skills, physical actions (priming)

27
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people claim to remember episodic memory of emotionally arousing events

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flashbulb mem

28
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ability to vividly recall image from memory after few instances of exposure with high precision for brief time (photo)

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eidetic mem

29
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accurate retrieval without significant alteration

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reproductive mem

30
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remember to perform plan or action or recall planned intention in future

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prospective mem

31
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combine words and visuals for better learning and mem

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dual coding

32
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adults remember events 10-30 yr better

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reminisce bump

33
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visualized spatial info to recall lists of words

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method of loci, mem journey/place

34
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individual connects words to numbers and create association or rhyme

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peg

35
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proactive interference

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prior interfers

36
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retroactive interferes

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recent interfers

37
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misidentifying origin of knowledge

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source monitoring errors

38
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invented or distorted recollection of episodic event that did not actually happen

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false memories

39
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episodic memory becomes less accurate because post event info works backwards in time to distort mem or original event through retroactive interference

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misinformation event

40
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loss of ability to create new memory after event, leads to partial or complete inability to recall recent past but long term from before event still intact (after gone)

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anterograde amnesia

41
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loss of access to events from before onset of disease or event (before gone)

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retrograde amnesia

42
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organism’s response diminishes as it becomes accustomed to repeated stim

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habituation

43
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organism demonstrates increased responsiveness to repeated stim and increased arousal

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sensitization

44
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reinforcement

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increase likelihood of desired behavior

45
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punishment

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decrease likelihood of desired behavior

46
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primary reinfocers

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biological

47
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reinforce given after set number responses

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fixed ratio

48
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slowest rate of extinction

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variable ratio

49
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fastest rate of extinction

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continuous

50
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reinforcer given after variable number of responses

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variable ratio

51
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ratio

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number response

52
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interval

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time

53
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reinforcer given after set amount of time

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fixed interval

54
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reinforcer given after inconsistent amount of time

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variable interval

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