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agonist

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a drug that increases the activity of one or more neurotransmitters

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antagonist

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a drug that decreases the activity of one or more neurotransmitters

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dopamine

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neurotransmitter involved in arousal and mood states, though processes and physical movement

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serotonin

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levels of arousal and mood, sleep and eating

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parasympathetical nervous system

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the part of the autonomic nervous system that returns the body to its normal resting state after being highly aroused, emergancy

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sympathetic nervous system

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the part of the autonomic nervous system that is in control when we are highly aroused, as in an emergency and need to prepare for defensive action

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limbic system

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a group of brain structure
hippocampus
hypothalamus
amygdala
importan role in out survival, memory and emotions

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frontal lobe

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motor cortex

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parietal lobe

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somatosensory cortex

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temporal lobe

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auditory cortex

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occipital lobe

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visual cortex

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assication cortex

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all of the cerebral cortex except those areas devoted to primary sensory processing or motor processing

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Wernickes area

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area in the cerebral cortex responsible for comprehension of speech and text

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accomodation

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focusing of light waves from objects of different distances directly on the retina

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nearsightedness

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a visual problem in which the light waves from distant objects come into focus in front of the retina

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farsightedness

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a visual problem in which the light waves from nearby objects come into focus in front of the retina

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retina

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the light sensitive layer of the eye that is composed of three layers of cells

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trichromatic theory

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theory of color vision that assumes that there are three types of cones, each only see ranges of blue, green and red

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nerve deafness

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hearing loss created by damage to the hair cells or auditory nerve fibers in the inner ear

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conduction deafness

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hearing loss created by damage to one of the structures in the ear responsible for mechanically conducting the auditory information to the inner ear

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bottom up processing

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the processing of incoming sensory information as it travels up from the sensory structures to the brain

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top down processing

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the brains use of knowledge, beliefs and expectations to interpret sensory information

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perceptual set

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the interpretation of ambigious sensory information in terms of how our past experiences have set us to perceive it

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contextual effect

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the use of the present context of sensory information to determine its meaning

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figure and ground principle

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the gestalt perceptual organazational principle that the brain organizes sensory information into a figure or figures and ground

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closure

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the gestalt perceptual organizational principle that the brain completes incomplete figures to form meaningful objects

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depth perception

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our ability to perceive the distance of objects from us

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acquistions

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(classical conditioning) acquireing a new response to the conditioned stimulus

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spontaneous recovery

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a partial recovery in strength of the conditioned response following a break during extinction training

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operant conditioning

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learning to associate behaviors with their consequeces. Behaviors reiencfored will be strengthened and not will be weaken

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reinforcer

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a stimulus that increases the probaility of a prior response

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appetitive stimulus

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pleasant

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aversive

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unpleasant

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observational learning

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learning by observing

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sensory memory

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one for each of our senses, serves as holding places for incoming sensory information until it can be attended to, interpreted and encoded into short term memory

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iconic memory

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visual sensory, hold exact copy of the incoming visual unput but only for a breif time, 1 sec

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sperlings full report and partial

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recall all letters of matrix
cue about which row of matrix

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short term memory

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the memory stage with small capacity 7+2 chunks <30 secs that we are aware of and we do our problem solving reasoning and decision making

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maintenance rehersal

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a type of rehersal in short term memory where the info is repeated over an over in order to maintain it

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long term memory

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unlimited stored

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explicit memory

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long term memory for factual knowledge

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semantic memory

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explicit memory for factual knowledge

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episodic memory

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explicit memory for personal experiences

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implicit memory

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long term for procedural tasks, classical conditioning and primary effects

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procedural memory

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implicit memory for cognitive and motor tasks that have a physical procedural aspect to them

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amesic

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a person with serve memory deficits following brain surgery or injury

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primacy effect

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the superior recall of the early portion of a list relative to the middle of the list in a one trial free recall task
LTM

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recency effect

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the recall of the latter portion of a list than the middle of the list in a one trial recall
STM

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encoding

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the process of moving info from one memory stage to the next

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recall

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measure of a long term memory retrieval that requires the reproduction of the information with essentially no retrieval cues

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recongnition

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a measure of long term retrieval that only requres the identification of the info in the presence of retrieval cues

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encoding failure theory

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theory of forgetting is due to the failure to encond the info into long term

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functional fixedness

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the inability to see that an object can have a funtion other that its typical one

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mental set

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tendency to use previously sucessful problem solving strategies without considering others that are more appropriate

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means end analysis heuristic

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breaking down the problem into subgoals and acheiving these subgoals

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conjunctional fallacy

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incorrectly judging the overlap of two uncertain events to be more probable that either or the two events

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gamblers fallacy

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incorrectly believing that a chance process is self correcting in that an event that has not accured for a while is more likely to occur

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availibility heuristic

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judging the probability on how availible examples of the event are in memory

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illusory correlation

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the erroneous belief that two variables are statisically related when they actually are not

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belief perservance

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the tendency to cling to ones beilefs in the face of contradictory evidence

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flynn effect

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the finding that the average intelligence test scores in the US and other industrialized nations has improved steadily over the last century