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