Lecture 1

Question 1

What is semantic knowledge?

Answer 1

The general knowledge and features that make up concepts that people have acquired and abstracted from their experiences

Question 2

What is episodic knowledge?

Answer 2

The mental representations of the specific events in a person’s life

Question 3

Encoding

Answer 3

To get sensory information into a form that the brain can use

Question 4

Retrieval

Answer 4

Getting information that is in storage into a form that can be used

Question 5

The functions of the frontal lobe

Answer 5

-Motor processing
-Higher thought processes

Question 6

The functions of the pariatal lobe

Answer 6

-Somatosensory
-Spatial processing

Question 7

The functions of the occipital lobe

Answer 7

-Visual processing

Question 8

The functions of the temporal lobe

Answer 8

-Auditory processing

Question 9

Functions dominant in the left hemisphere

Answer 9

-Many aspects of language processing
-The processing of ‘local’ information

Question 10

Functions dominant in the right hemisphere

Answer 10

-Various aspects of visuospatial processing
-The processing of ‘global’ information.

Question 11

Amygdala

Answer 11

Influences anger and aggression

Question 12

Corpus callosum

Answer 12

Relays information between the two cerrebral hemispheres as a bridge

Question 13

Cerebral cortex

Answer 13

Controls thinking and sensing functions, voluntary movements

Question 14

Hippocampus

Answer 14

Influences learning and memory

Question 15

What are the 4 functional/metabloc scans?

Answer 15

EEG, PET,fMRI,MEG

Provides information about functional areas and/or speed of neural firing

Question 16

What does the EEG?

Answer 16

electrodes are placed over the head.
Provides the timing of brain activity

Question 17

What does the PET

Answer 17

Provides localization and magnitude of the brain activity.

Radio active glucose is given before the scan.

Active brain areas consume more glucose, so that part will light up

Question 18

What does the fMRI?

Answer 18

Provides a good picture of the functional brain areas.

Assumes that active brain areas consume more oxygen.

Question 19

What does MEG?

Answer 19

Provides good localization and timing of function.

Can be used together with an EEG

Very heavy and expensive