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