Study List 1 Flashcards
Aphasia
Impairment of language in the left hemisphere usually caused by damage to broca or wernickes area
Association Areas
Areas of cerebral cortex that are involved in higher mental functions such as learning, remembering, thinking, and speaking
Glial cells
Cells in nervous system that protect and nourish and support neurons
Reticular formation
Nerve network in brain stem that plays an important role in controlling arousal
Autonomic nervous system
Part of PNS that controls muscles and glands of internal organs
Somatic nervous system
Division of PNS that controls the body’s skeletal muscles
Working memory
Where we actively associate new and old information to solve problems
Next in line effect
If people go around a circle saying names the one before them is the one they have the most trouble remembering
Long term potential
An increase synapse firing potential after a brief rapid stimulation. This is basis of learning and memory.
Implicit/procedural memory
How to do something
Explicit/declarative memory
Memory of facts and answers
Cerebellum
Holds implicit memories and active during classical conditioning
Proactive interference
Old affecting new
Retroactive interference
New affecting old
Lotus
Car crash experiment
Concepts
Mental grouping of similar objects or people
Prototype
Mental image or best example of a category
Algorithm
Logical rule that guarantees solving a particular problem
Heuristic
Simple thinking strategy that allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently
Fixation
Inability to see problem from a new perspective
Mental set
Tendency to solve problems in ways that have proved successful in the past
Functional fixedness
Tendency to think of things only in their usual function
Phoneme
Smallest distinctive sound
Morpheme
Smallest unit that caries meaning
Linguistic determinism
Whorfs hypothesis that language determines how we speak
Wernicke’s Area
Usually in left temporal lobe and involved in language comprehension and expression
