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What is associated with the left brain?

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

Math, logic, language, organization etc

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What is associated with the right brain?

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Things that has to do unfamiliarity, working though chaotic space

Art, creativity, emotion

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

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

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What is the frontal lobe responsible for?

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Complex thoughts, planning, speech and movement of the body

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What is the temporal lobe responsible for?

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Hearing, recognizing faces, emotion and working memory.

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What is the parietal lobe responsible for?

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Touch and pressure, touch and body awareness

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What is the occipital lobe responsible for?

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Vision

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What is the cerebellum responsible for?

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Motor skills

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What is the broca’s area?

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

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What is the wernicke’s area?

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It understands speech or language (even writing language)

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What controls alertness and arousal?

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The reticular activating system (RAS)

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What is the nucleus accumbens?

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It is the pleasure center

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What is the limbic system associated with?

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Emotions

It involves the hypothalamus, amygdala, hippocampus and thalamus

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What is the hippocampus?

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Memory

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What is thalamus?

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It is sensory switchboard

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What neuroimaging is a structural techniques?

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MRI and CT

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What neuroimaging is a functional techniques?

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EEG, fMRI and PET

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What is the primacy effect?

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Remember things at the beginning of the list

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What is the recency effect?

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Remember things at the end of the list

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What is the self-reference effect?

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Referencing yourself in that particular situation to remember something

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What is elaborative coding?

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

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What is chunking?

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Grouping things together in order to remember

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What is explicit memory?

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It is declarative memory. Memory with conscious recall

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What are the two types of explicit memory?

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Episodic memory and semantic memory (facts)

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What is implicit memory?

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Non-declarative memory. Memory not

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What are the three types of implicit memory?

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

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What is a retrieval cue?

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Any stimulus that assists in memory retrieval

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What are the three types of retrieval cue?

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Priming, context-dependent memory, state-dependent memory

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The two types of priming?

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

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What is a flashbulb memory?

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Remember with good memory due to emotionally arousing event

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What is eidetic memory?

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Photographic memory

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What is reproductive memory?

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Accurate retrieval of information from memory

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What is prospective memory

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Remembering to do a planned action

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What is dual coding theory?

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Remember with words and image

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What is the levels of processing model?

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Focus on the depth of processing involved in memory

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What is the reminiscence memory?

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Older adults remember older memories better

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What is the method of loci?

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Using spatial information to remember (castle technique)

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What is the peg words?

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Connect words to numbers to remember

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What is the practice effect?

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Practicing to remember

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What are intrusions errors?

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Making an error with words similar to those that we memorized

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What are the two types of interference?

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

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