Neuroscience, Memory and Learning

Question 1

What is associated with the left brain?

Answer 1

Things that has to do with approach, familiarity or organized structured space.

Math, logic, language, organization etc

Question 2

What is associated with the right brain?

Answer 2

Things that has to do unfamiliarity, working though chaotic space

Art, creativity, emotion

Question 3

The left-brain and right-brain is not universally true. Why is that?

Answer 3

Because left-handed people have the opposite of the whole left brain is for logic and right brain is for creativity

Question 4

What is the frontal lobe responsible for?

Answer 4

Complex thoughts, planning, speech and movement of the body

Question 5

What is the temporal lobe responsible for?

Answer 5

Hearing, recognizing faces, emotion and working memory.

Question 6

What is the parietal lobe responsible for?

Answer 6

Touch and pressure, touch and body awareness

Question 7

What is the occipital lobe responsible for?

Answer 7

Vision

Question 8

What is the cerebellum responsible for?

Answer 8

Motor skills

Question 9

What is the broca’s area?

Answer 9

It is production of speech or language (even writing language)

Question 10

What is the wernicke’s area?

Answer 10

It understands speech or language (even writing language)

Question 11

What controls alertness and arousal?

Answer 11

The reticular activating system (RAS)

Question 12

What is the nucleus accumbens?

Answer 12

It is the pleasure center

Question 13

What is the limbic system associated with?

Answer 13

Emotions

It involves the hypothalamus, amygdala, hippocampus and thalamus

Question 14

What is the hippocampus?

Answer 14

Memory

Question 15

What is thalamus?

Answer 15

It is sensory switchboard

Question 16

What neuroimaging is a structural techniques?

Answer 16

MRI and CT

Question 17

What neuroimaging is a functional techniques?

Answer 17

EEG, fMRI and PET

Question 18

What is the primacy effect?

Answer 18

Remember things at the beginning of the list

Question 19

What is the recency effect?

Answer 19

Remember things at the end of the list

Question 20

What is the self-reference effect?

Answer 20

Referencing yourself in that particular situation to remember something

Question 21

What is elaborative coding?

Answer 21

It is the ability to remember steps of something unknown using something you are familiar with

Question 22

What is chunking?

Answer 22

Grouping things together in order to remember

Question 23

What is explicit memory?

Answer 23

It is declarative memory. Memory with conscious recall

Question 24

What are the two types of explicit memory?

Answer 24

Episodic memory and semantic memory (facts)

Question 25

What is implicit memory?

Answer 25

Non-declarative memory. Memory not

Question 26

What are the three types of implicit memory?

Answer 26

Priming, Procedural memory (riding a bike) and classical conditioning

Question 27

What is a retrieval cue?

Answer 27

Any stimulus that assists in memory retrieval

Question 28

What are the three types of retrieval cue?

Answer 28

Priming, context-dependent memory, state-dependent memory

Question 29

The two types of priming?

Answer 29

Positive (speed up processing) and negative (slow down processing)

Question 30

What is a flashbulb memory?

Answer 30

Remember with good memory due to emotionally arousing event

Question 31

What is eidetic memory?

Answer 31

Photographic memory

Question 32

What is reproductive memory?

Answer 32

Accurate retrieval of information from memory

Question 33

What is prospective memory

Answer 33

Remembering to do a planned action

Question 34

What is dual coding theory?

Answer 34

Remember with words and image

Question 35

What is the levels of processing model?

Answer 35

Focus on the depth of processing involved in memory

Question 36

What is the reminiscence memory?

Answer 36

Older adults remember older memories better

Question 37

What is the method of loci?

Answer 37

Using spatial information to remember (castle technique)

Question 38

What is the peg words?

Answer 38

Connect words to numbers to remember

Question 39

What is the practice effect?

Answer 39

Practicing to remember

Question 40

What are intrusions errors?

Answer 40

Making an error with words similar to those that we memorized

Question 41

What are the two types of interference?

Answer 41

Pro-interference (old learned interferes with new) and Reterointerfernce (new with old)