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Where does long-term potentiation occur?
Long-term potentiation primarily occurs at synapses in the hippocampus and other areas of the brain associated with learning and memory.
Long term memory
An unlimited storehouse of information
Central executive
Directs attention to tasks
Phonological loop
Deals with auditory information and language
Phonological store
Holds words heard
Auditoury store
Holds words heard/seen and silently repeated like an inner voice
Visuospatial sketchpad
Visual and/or spatial info stored here
Visual cache
What things look like stores information about the form and the color
Inner scribe
Processes spatial and movement formation
Episodic buffer
Dedicated to linking information across the domains to form integrated units of visual, spatial, and verbal information, with time sequencing such as the memory of a story, an event, or a movie scene
Appearance
When we encode only the physical qualities of something
Phonemic processing
Which is when we encode its sound
semantic processing
When we encode the meaning of a word and relate it to similar words with similar meaning
Primary effect
Tendency to remember items at the beginning of the list
Recency effect
Tendency to remember items at the end of the test
Serial positioning effect
Tendency to recall information that is presented first and last better than information in the middle
state dependent memory
idea that you’re more likely to recall information when you’re in the same physical or emotional state as when you learned it.
Psuedoforgetting
where you think you’ve forgotten something, but in reality, you never really learned it in the first place.
Intelligence
The ability to gather and use information in productive ways.
Robert Sternberg and his Triarchic Theory
most commonly accepted theory today
Stanford-Binet Test
Used Binet’s research to construct the modern day IQ test called the
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