Cognition Part 1 learning curve

limbic system parts

hippocampus, amygdala, hypothalamus and located below the cerebral hemispheres

basal ganglia

movement

Rory agreed to join a biology study group. When the study group leader gave him her phone number, he had nothing in which to record the number. So Rory repeated the number to himself several times until he found a pen to write the number on his hand. The process Rory used to encode the number into memory is called:

rehearsal

Ivan recently suffered a severe stroke and is no longer able to remember events from his childhood. His memory problems are related to:

retrieval failure

sleep spindles

short bursts of brain waves detected in NREM 2 sleep

somnambulism

sleepwalking

alpha waves

slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state

fixation

the inability to see a problem from a new perspective

limbic system

the neural system associated with emotions and drives

sleep apena

trouble breathing while asleep

N-REM 2

true sleep - reductions in heart rate and muscle tension

Adult sleep cycle

Duration of about 90 min; includes NREM and REM sleep

flashbulb memory

a clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event

beta waves

awake and alert

temporal lobe

hearing, language processing, memory

N-REM 1

light sleep, alpha & theta waves, easily woken

non-declarative memory

long-term memory demonstrated in behavior

implicit memory

conscious recollection without thought

A mental collection of related objects and/or events is known as a(n):

concept

Hippocampus

memory

eposidic memory

memory for personally experienced events

explicit memory

memory of facts and experiences

sematic memory

memory of general knowledge

declarative memory

memory of knowledge that can be called forth consciously as needed

state-dependent memory

memory retrieval is better in same state of consciousness when the memory was formed

If Serena goes to a new restaurant she will probably see chairs even though she may have never seen that particular style of chair before. This is because she has an existing _____ of chairs.

concept

Imagine a study in which participants are shown 2,000 slides of houses and storefronts, each for only 10 seconds. Later, these same participants are shown 300 of the original slides paired with slides they have not seen before. According to research, these participants would be able to recognize _____ percent of the slides they had seen before.

90

Amygdala

A limbic system structure involved in memory and emotion, particularly fear and aggression.

Normal sleep cycle

Awake, stage 1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, REM

Cerebellum

Balance and coordination

John has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. While he is quite forgetful, he is still able to recall events from his teenage and young adult years. That is because his _____ is still intact. Please choose the correct answer from the following choices, and then select the submit answer button.

LTM

Millie has been having difficulties remembering what people have just said. She is unable to follow along during her favorite television shows. Millie is having difficulty with her:

STM

paradoxical sleep

another name for REM sleep

hormones

chemical messengers that are manufactured by the endocrine glands

Psychologists refer to the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating as _____.

cognition

N-REM 3

deep sleep, delta waves

intuition

effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought

priming memory

enhanced identification of objects or words

Mr. Nydam suffers amnesia and is unable to remember playing golf on a particular course. However, the longer he plays the course, the more his game improves. His experience illustrates the difference in: Please choose the correct answer from the following choices, and then select the submit answer button.

explicit memory and implicit memory

Mabel has Alzheimer's disease and has lost her _____ memories for people and events. However, she is able to display an ability to form new _____ memories by being repeatedly shown words.

explicit; implicit

Our unconscious capacity for learning how to do something is known as _____ memory. Please type the correct answer in the following input field, and then select the submit answer button or press the enter key when finished.

implicit

SQ3R is a method for _____ memory.

improving

As a practical joke, Nadine tells her younger brother a story about an event that did NOT happen when he was four years old. She said he called "911" to report a fight they were having. Nadine repeated this story several times, until her brother really imagines dialing the phone. This is an example of imagination _____.

inflation

Immediate and easy to understand feedback regarding a student's performance on a physics practice test is most likely to inhibit:

overconfidence

REM

rapid eye movement

mood-congruent memory

recall experiences that are consistent with one's current mood

parietal lobe

receives sensory input for touch and body position

context dependent memory

when the recall situation is similar to the encoding situation