Neuroscience, Memory and Learning Flashcards
What is associated with the left brain?
Things that has to do with approach, familiarity or organized structured space.
Math, logic, language, organization etc
What is associated with the right brain?
Things that has to do unfamiliarity, working though chaotic space
Art, creativity, emotion
The left-brain and right-brain is not universally true. Why is that?
Because left-handed people have the opposite of the whole left brain is for logic and right brain is for creativity
What is the frontal lobe responsible for?
Complex thoughts, planning, speech and movement of the body
What is the temporal lobe responsible for?
Hearing, recognizing faces, emotion and working memory.
What is the parietal lobe responsible for?
Touch and pressure, touch and body awareness
What is the occipital lobe responsible for?
Vision
What is the cerebellum responsible for?
Motor skills
What is the broca’s area?
It is production of speech or language (even writing language)
What is the wernicke’s area?
It understands speech or language (even writing language)
What controls alertness and arousal?
The reticular activating system (RAS)
What is the nucleus accumbens?
It is the pleasure center
What is the limbic system associated with?
Emotions
It involves the hypothalamus, amygdala, hippocampus and thalamus
What is the hippocampus?
Memory
What is thalamus?
It is sensory switchboard
What neuroimaging is a structural techniques?
MRI and CT
What neuroimaging is a functional techniques?
EEG, fMRI and PET
What is the primacy effect?
Remember things at the beginning of the list
What is the recency effect?
Remember things at the end of the list
What is the self-reference effect?
Referencing yourself in that particular situation to remember something
What is elaborative coding?
It is the ability to remember steps of something unknown using something you are familiar with
What is chunking?
Grouping things together in order to remember
What is explicit memory?
It is declarative memory. Memory with conscious recall
What are the two types of explicit memory?
Episodic memory and semantic memory (facts)
What is implicit memory?
Non-declarative memory. Memory not
What are the three types of implicit memory?
Priming, Procedural memory (riding a bike) and classical conditioning
What is a retrieval cue?
Any stimulus that assists in memory retrieval
What are the three types of retrieval cue?
Priming, context-dependent memory, state-dependent memory
The two types of priming?
Positive (speed up processing) and negative (slow down processing)
What is a flashbulb memory?
Remember with good memory due to emotionally arousing event
What is eidetic memory?
Photographic memory
What is reproductive memory?
Accurate retrieval of information from memory
What is prospective memory
Remembering to do a planned action
What is dual coding theory?
Remember with words and image
What is the levels of processing model?
Focus on the depth of processing involved in memory
What is the reminiscence memory?
Older adults remember older memories better
What is the method of loci?
Using spatial information to remember (castle technique)
What is the peg words?
Connect words to numbers to remember
What is the practice effect?
Practicing to remember
What are intrusions errors?
Making an error with words similar to those that we memorized
What are the two types of interference?
Pro-interference (old learned interferes with new) and Reterointerfernce (new with old)
