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| mental process of knowing, including awareness, perception, reasoning and judgement |
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| how we recognize and interpret sensory information, based on memeory |
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| how we recognize something based on a percieved pattern |
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| how we focus on some particular sensory information, while filtering out other sensory information |
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| attention and consciousness |
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| how we conjure up images in our minds without the actual sensory stimulation occuring |
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| has to do with abstract neural processing, developing new ideas in our brains without specific sensory input |
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| thinking and concept formation |
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| acquisition of new information or knowledge |
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| it is the experience-dependent generation of enduring internal representations, or modificaition sin such representations |
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| retention of learned information that can be expressed later as needed |
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| first stage of information processing |
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| sensory-perceptual memory |
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| how logn does sensory-perceptual memory last |
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| memory which represents conscious awareness |
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| how long does short term memory last |
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| approximately how many items can short term memory hold |
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| this memory involves alteration of preexisting synaptic connections |
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| conversion of short term memory information to long term memory is called what |
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| consolidation of STM information to LTM is accompaned by what (3) |
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| growth of new synaptic connections, gene expression, increased protein synthesis |
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| primary site of short term memory |
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| memory longer than STM but not as permanent as LTM |
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| declaritive (explicit), nondeclarative (implicit) |
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| memory that is directly accessible to conscious recollection |
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| declarative (explicit) memory |
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| 2 types of declarative (explicit) memory |
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| memory type concerned with facts and information acquired through learning (math, history) |
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| memory concerned with remembering events (annivesrary, birthday) |
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| areas of the brain involved in declarative (explicit) memory (2) |
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| medial temporal lobe, diencephalon |
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| LTM that is unconscous and demonstrated by performance |
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| nondeclarative (implicit) |
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| 2 types of nondeclarative (implicit) memory |
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| procedural, non procedural |
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| memory for skills and habit, deals with how things are performed (motor memory system) |
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| brain structure associated with procedural memory |
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| memory that includes classical and operant conditioning and types of non-associative learning such as sensitization and habituation |
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| what 3 things is memory retrieval dependent on? |
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| how well the information is encoded, how easy is it to retrieve, how recently the memory was stored |
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| how can memory retrieval be improved |
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| if current conditiosn and those that existed when memory was stored are similar |
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| information coded in some sort of meaningful way seems to processed at a deeper level and more easily retrieved than information that is simply memorized. What memory type would this involve |
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| amnesia in which the recent past is forgotten, usually maintain older memories |
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| amnesia in which there is an inability to make new memories following brain trauma |
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| brain area responsible for: mediating rapid acquisition of behaviors based on the emotional (affective) meaning of the biological event |
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| brain area responsible for: mediates the formation of habits and non-declarative memories, stimulus response associations |
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| brain area responsible for: declarative memories, the relationships among stimuli and events, spatial and temporal information |
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| brain area responsible for: visual sensory perception |
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| what part of the cortex may be involved in episodic memory |
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| what part of the cortex may be involved in semantic memory |
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| symbolic system that humans use for communicating thoughts |
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| the sound structure of language |
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| the structure of words and sentences |
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| area responsible for speech production |
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| where is broca's area located |
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| junction of frontal and temporal lobe of left hemisphere |
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| area responsible for speech comprehension |
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| where is wernicker's area located |
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| posterior parietal/temporal region closed to primary auditory area |
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| specialized region for spoken words |
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| postersuperior temporal gyrus |
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| specialized regions for written words |
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| Broca's aphasia would result in what 4 S/S |
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| prevention of speech production, person can understand language, words are not properly formed, speech is slurred |
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| wernicker's aphasia would result in what 2 S/S |
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| cannot understand language, can speak clearly but words make no sense |
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| Association areas: regions responsible for sensory information and language (3) |
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| parietal-temporal-occipital |
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| Association areas: responsible for emotional expression and memory formation |
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| Association areas: recieves information from all other association areas, relates different aspects of an event into a coherent experience |
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| Association areas: executive functino of behvaior |
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| anterior (prefrontal) cortex |
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| Handedness is correlated with what |
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| contralateral hemisphereic dominance |
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| the dominant hemisphere is usually concerned with what (2) |
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| language, logical operations |
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| non-dominant hemisphere is concerned with what (2) |
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| emotion and artistic skills |
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| what insures communcation between the 2 hemispheres |
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| what would you cut in the brain for a patient with severe epilepsy to decrease seizure activity |
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| visually, a side effect of cutting the corpus callosum resulted in what |
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| right side of brain is blind to what the left was seeing and vice versa |
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| split-brain: objects falling in the right visual field can be verbaly identified via what |
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| split-brain: an object cannot be verbally identified if it falls in this visual field |
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| dominant hemishpere characteristics (5) |
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| number skills, written language, reasoning, scientific, spoken language |
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| non-dominant hemisphere characteristics (6) |
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| insight, 3-d spatial reasoning, art awareness, imagination, music awareness, language comprehension |
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| disorders of higher functions are based on what 2 models |
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| anatomical, synaptic communication model |
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| disorders of higher function: anatomical model disorders are due to what |
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| some type of abnormal wiring, degenerative damage, or lack of development |
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| 5 disorders of higher function associated with the anatomical model |
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| alzheimer's, schizophrenia, depression, dyslexia, OCD |
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| Disorders of Higher Function: Anatomic Model: Alzheimer's is asssociated with what (2) |
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| Disorders of Higher Function: Anatomic Model: schizophrenia is associated with what (3) |
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| enlarged ventricles, disorganization of cells, blood flow abnormalities |
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| Disorders of Higher Function: Anatomic Model: depression is associated with what |
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| Disorders of Higher Function: Anatomic Model: dyslexia is associated with what |
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| Disorders of Higher Function: Anatomic Model: OCD is associated with what |
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| abnormal blood flow and metabolism |
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| Disorders of Higher Function: Anatomic Model: disorders associated with the synaptic communication model (3) |
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| schizprenia, OCD, Depression |
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| Disorders of Higher Function: Anatomic Model: disorders associated with both models (3) |
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| schizophrenia, ocd, depression |
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| Disorders of Higher Function: disorders are due to too much or too little neurotransmitter, supported by pharmacological treatment |
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| synaptic communication model |
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| Disorders of Higher Function: Synaptic Communication Model: schizophrenia is associated with what |
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| Disorders of Higher Function: Synaptic Communication Model: OCD is associated with what |
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| may have decreased levels of serotonin |
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| Disorders of Higher Function: Synaptic Communication Model: what is associated with depression |
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| decreased activity in synapses |
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