What the heck is pons?, Deals with sleep/arousal, facial expressions, and COORDINATED movement, deals with sleep/arousal, facial expressions and UNCOORDINATED movement, Amygdala deals with..., emotions and fear, facts, The hippocampus deals with..., feelings, memory, The hypothalamus deals with..., the reward and pleasure center, eating behaviors and is linked to the endocrine system., Is not linked to the endocrine system., The thalamus is the relay center for all except..., movement, smell, The cerebral cortex is the ___________ portion of the brain., inner, outer, True or False - The occipital lobe is located in the back of the head...deals with vision, and mom's eyes!, true, false, This lobe is NOT involved in decision making, planning, judgment, movement and personality., true, false, This lobe is located on top of the head and deals with sensations..., parietal lobe, temporal lobe, This lobe is located on the sides of the head (temples) - helps with hearing and face recognition., parietal lobe, temporal lobe, The ________ ________ is the bundle of nerves that connects the two hemispheres of the brain and is sometimes used for patients with severe seizures., corpus callosum, Corpus Symbolism, What does brain plasticity mean?, It means that the brain can heal itself., It means that the brain can NOT heal itself., What system sends hormones throughout your body?, endocrine, limbic, What is controlled by the hypothalamus and releases growth hormones?, adrenal glands, pituitary gland, What is related to the sympathetic nervous system and releases adrenaline?, adrenal glands, pituitary gland, True or False - The pineal gland releases melatonin., false, true, What word means getting information into MEMORY., decoding, encoding, Automatic encoding..., requires NO effort, requires a lot of effort, Effortful encoding..., does not require effort, requires attention and effort, Imagery means..., attaching images to information to make it easier to remember, attaching words to information to make it easier to remember, Self-referent encoding..., we better remember what is personally important, makes you forget what is not personally important, Chunking means..., break into bigger units to help with memory, breaking information into smaller units to help with memory, Mnemonics are..., shortcuts to help us remember information easier, taking the long way to help us remember information easier, Acronyms..., using letters to remember something (PEMDAS), using numbers to remember something, Methods of LOCI...., using LOCATIONS to remember a list of items in order, playing games to remember a list of items in order, What is context dependent memory?, where you forget the info you learn, WHERE you learn the info you you best remember the info, State dependent memory..., the state of consciousness you were in when learning is the way you should be when testing, is forgetting the way you should be when testing, Mood congruent memory..., it is easier to recall memories that are consistent with the MOOD we are in., is harder to remember the memories that are consistent with the THINGS WE HAVE TO DO., True or False - It is easier to remember more depressing stuff., True, False, Storage is..., retaining or remembering info over time, forgetting info over time, The information processing model..., forgetting information over time, SSL - sensory, short term memory and long term memory model, Sensory memory..., stores all the STIMULI that you receive but first you must PAY ATTENTION, does not store all the incoming stimuli that you receive, Iconic Memory..., visual memory that lasts 0.3 seconds, auditory memory that lasts 0.3 seconds, Echoic memory..., auditory memory that lasts 2 - 3 seconds, visual memory that lasts 0.3 seconds, Short term memory... when sensory memory passes from sensory memory to STM (short term memory)., lasts 30 minutes, last 30 seconds, Rehearsal resets the clock by, not repeating the information, repeating the information, Long Term Memory is..., limitless and relatively PERMANENT, limited and relatively forgotten, Episodic memory is because you remember..., events, bad dreams, True or False - Semantic memory is when you remember FACTS., True, False, Implicit memory is..., conscious, unconscious, True or False - Retrieval is taking information out of storage., true, false, True or False - The serial position effect helps you remember the BEGINNING and the END of a list best., True, False, Recall means..., to remember what you are told WITHOUT cues, to forget what you are told WITH cues, True or False - RECOGNITION is when you remember what you are told WITH cues., true, false, Flashbulb Memories are..., vivid memories for important events, not having vivid memories for important events, True or False - Repressed memories are unconsciously buried memories and are..., reliable, unreliable, Encoding failure is to forget info because you never encoded it or paid attention to it., False, True, True or False - The forgetting curve is when your recall INCREASES rapidly at first, then plateaus after which a little more is forgotten., true, false

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