Vocab 4 Flashcards
What is remembering intended actions?
Remember to do something in the future?
Prospective memory
What kind of memory lasts minutes to weeks?
Short term memory
What kind of memory lasts weeks to forever?
Long term memory
4 stages of declarative/explicit memory?
Encoding
Consolidation
Storage
Retrieval
What kind of encoding is repeating information to yourself? Most frequently used for short term memory?
Acoustic encoding
What kind of encoding is visualizing information
ex: slide in notes
Visual encoding
What kind of encoding is associating meaning to what is learned? Primary means for long-term memory
Semantic encoding
What is a large network of multiple nuclei and ascending and decending neurons throughout the brainstem?
-Regulates motor activity
Reticular formation
What section of the brainstem allows you to breathe without thinking of it?
Medullary rhythmicity center
What does the pontine nuclei control?
Motor control
What tracts does the cerebral peduncle contain?
Corticospinal tract
Corticobrainstem tract
Corticopontine tract
What does the substantia nigra produce?
Dopamine
What does the Red nucleus do?
Motor control in limbs
What does the inferior colliculus control?
Auditory
What does the superior colliculus control?
Visual
