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Slides
- Content Pyramid and Core Themes
- The Brain: Principles and Evidence
- The Brain: The Machinery
- Sensation, Attention, and Perception
- Memory Systems
- Memory Types and Retrieval Cues
- Memory Errors, Forgetting, and Emotion
- Concepts and Categories
Key Terms
- Mental Representation
- Bottom-Up and Top-Down Processing
- Limited Capacity
- Automatic to Controlled Processing
- Cognitive Science
- neuroscience
- neuroimaging
- localization
- lateralization
- neuroplasticity
- neurons
- synapse
- neurotransmitter
- neural pathway
- cerebral cortex
- frontal lobe
- parietal lobe
- temporal lobe
- occipital lobe
- hippocampus
- amygdala
- thalamus
- hypothalamus
- corpus callosum
- sensation
- attention
- divided attention
- inattentional blindness
- change blindness
- perception
- object recognition
- perceptual constancy
- encoding
- storage
- retrieval
- working memory
- long-term memory
- chunking
- primacy effect
- recency effect
- shallow processing
- deep processing
- explicit memory
- implicit memory
- episodic memory
- semantic memory
- retrieval cue
- recall
- recognition
- schema
- intrusion error
- misinformation error
- forgetting curve
- spaced repetition
- flashbulb memory
- traumatic memory
- concept
- category
- typicality
- prototype
- exemplar
- basic-level category
Flashcards
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