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Study List 1 Flashcards

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1
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Aphasia

A

Impairment of language in the left hemisphere usually caused by damage to broca or wernickes area

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Association Areas

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Areas of cerebral cortex that are involved in higher mental functions such as learning, remembering, thinking, and speaking

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Glial cells

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Cells in nervous system that protect and nourish and support neurons

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Reticular formation

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Nerve network in brain stem that plays an important role in controlling arousal

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Autonomic nervous system

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Part of PNS that controls muscles and glands of internal organs

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Somatic nervous system

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Division of PNS that controls the body’s skeletal muscles

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Working memory

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Where we actively associate new and old information to solve problems

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Next in line effect

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If people go around a circle saying names the one before them is the one they have the most trouble remembering

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Long term potential

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An increase synapse firing potential after a brief rapid stimulation. This is basis of learning and memory.

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Implicit/procedural memory

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How to do something

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Explicit/declarative memory

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Memory of facts and answers

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Cerebellum

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Holds implicit memories and active during classical conditioning

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Proactive interference

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Old affecting new

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Retroactive interference

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New affecting old

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Lotus

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Car crash experiment

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Concepts

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Mental grouping of similar objects or people

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Prototype

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Mental image or best example of a category

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Algorithm

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Logical rule that guarantees solving a particular problem

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Heuristic

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Simple thinking strategy that allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently

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Fixation

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Inability to see problem from a new perspective

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Mental set

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Tendency to solve problems in ways that have proved successful in the past

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Functional fixedness

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Tendency to think of things only in their usual function

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Phoneme

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Smallest distinctive sound

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Morpheme

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Smallest unit that caries meaning

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Linguistic determinism

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Whorfs hypothesis that language determines how we speak

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Wernicke’s Area

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Usually in left temporal lobe and involved in language comprehension and expression

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