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The nervous system and the brain
Differentiate between the central...,
Explain the areas and role of the...,
Describe the areas of the brain r...
41  cards
Neurons and Neurotransmitters
Identify the name of the process ...,
Identify which of the following s...,
Define the lock and key process
9  cards
Central Nervous System
What is the role of the human ner...,
What is the role of the central n...,
What is the role of the brain
9  cards
The spinal chord/ lobes
The spinal cord performs three fu...,
What are spinal reflexes,
What is the cerebrum
8  cards
Language
What is brocas area,
What is wernickes area,
What is geschwind s territory
3  cards
Voluntary movement
What is the role of the basal gan...,
What is the role of the cerebellum,
What is the role of the primary m...
3  cards
Emotion
What is the limbic system,
Role of hypothalamus,
Role of amygdala
5  cards
Neurotransmission
What is synaptic transmission,
What are the steps of synaptic tr...,
What is neurotransmission
4  cards
Excitation and Inhibition
What are excitatory neurotransmit...,
What are inhibitory neurotransmit...,
What is glutamate
4  cards
Visual Perception
What is the absolute threshold,
What are the stages of vision,
What is sensation
9  cards
Biological Influences on Visual Perception
What are the three main biologica...,
What is phycological makeup and h...,
What is ageing and how does it ef...
16  cards
Psychological Influences on Visual Perception
What are the 3 psychological infl...,
What are perceptual constancies,
What are desalts four principles
16  cards
Hudsons 1960 depth perception study
What is hudsons 1960 depth percep...,
What do we learn from it,
Ethical issues
5  cards
Deregowski’s study 1972
How was it conducted,
What do we learn from it,
Limitations
4  cards
Optical illusion
What is the muller luyer illusion,
What is the ponzo illusion,
What is the ames room illusion
4  cards
shawari albert and johnson's study 2007
What are impossible fiugures,
How does it work,
Research question
6  cards
Biegalski and Alampy 1961 (Rat Man experiment)
Aim,
Experimental design,
Results
5  cards
Data / Statistics
What is quantitive data,
What is qualitative data,
Mean formula
14  cards
Memory
Define memory,
What is the information processin...,
What its working memory
20  cards
long term memory
What is long term memory,
What is semantically def,
What are semantic networks
13  cards
models of memory
What is the information processin...,
What is the phonological loop,
What is the visuospatial sketchpad
13  cards
Brain Structures and memory
What is the role of the frontal l...,
What is the role of occipital lob...,
What is the role of parietal lobe...
15  cards
Hippocampus and Memory
What is the role of the hippocampus
1  cards
Memory recall
What is free recall,
What is serial recall the partici...,
What is cued recall
3  cards
encoding failure
What is the encoding specificity ...,
What are context dependent cues,
What are state dependent cues
3  cards
retrieval failure theory
What is the retrieval failure theory,
What is retrieval cues,
Tip of the tongue phenomenon tot
3  cards
interference effects
Proactive interference,
Retroactive interference
2  cards
improving memory
Chunking,
Maintenance rehearsal
2  cards
retrieving memory
What is retroactive,
What is proactive,
What is the issue of similarity
4  cards
conditioning
What is stimulis generalisation,
What is stimuli discrimination,
What is extinction
13  cards
Social Learning
What is modelling,
What is vicarious conditioning,
Differentiate between negative an...
9  cards

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