Chapter 5 Flashcards
What is the total time hypothesis?
The proposal that amount learned is a simple function of time spent on the learning task.
What’s the difference between total time hypothesis and deliberate learning?
Total time is just based on the amount of time you put into learning something.
Deliberate focuses on the weaknesses you need to work on.
Is it better to study everything in a single setting or distribute it?
Distribute it.
What is structural plasticity?
The ability of the brain to undergo structural changes in response to altered environmental demands.
What is the testing effect?
The finding that LTM is enhanced when much of the learning period is devoted to retrieving the to-be-remembered information.
What is test-enhanced learning?
Testing with feedback should be an especially powerful way to magnify the benefits of testing.
What effect does curiosity have on learning?
It creates a powerful state favorable to encoding new information, even incidental information not related to what you are curious about.
How often did people recognize their own videos on the walking test?
About 50%
What is consolidation?
The time-dependent process by which a new trace is gradually woven into the fabric of memory and by which its components and their interconnections are cemented together.
What is the sleep dependent triage?
The finding that sleep improves memory for content learned before sleep in a selective way, favoring salient material and forgetting less important material.
What is thought to be critical to the consolidation and transfer of memories to the neocortex?
Sleep-dependent replay
What is sleep-dependent replay?
The notion that the day’s events may, in part, be activated during sleep.
What part of the brain is involved in emotion and fear conditioning?
The Amygdala
Which part of the brain is responsible for episodic memory?
The hippocampus.
What is evaluative conditioning?
The tendency to one’s liking of a stimulus to be influenced by how frequently it is followed by a pleasant or unpleasant stimuli unrelated to it.
What is latent inhibition?
Classical conditioning phenomenon whereby multiple prior presentations of a neutral stimulus will interfere with its involvement in subsequent conditioning.
What is repetition suppression?
Reduced activity in a brain area responsible for processing a stimulus when that stimulus is repeated, compared to when it was encountered for the first time.
