Ap Psychology Unit 2 "Cognition"

Medulla

Lowest part of the brain stem that connects brain to spinal cord

Sympathetic nervous system

prepares body for action

Gestalt principle figure ground

Seprating an object we focus on (figure) from its background (ground)

context dependent memory

you remember informed better in the same environment where you learned itetroactir

retroactive interference

newer memories make it harder to remember older memoriesntergrade amnesia a

anterograde amnesia

unable to form new memories after the entry etam

meta cognition

continuous awareness understanding and control

perspective memory

used for things we need to do in the future

semantic encoding

focusing on the meaning of informationtimulans

stimulants

increased activity in CNS which causes great alertness energy

Recognition

identifying information presented using external cues to guide you

primacy effect

info at the beginning of the list that you remember bestestaly similiarug

gestalt similarity

human brain naturally groups elements together based off of visual similarity

just noticeable difference

to be proceed as different to stimuli must differ by a constant percentage

broca’s area

Production of written and spoken language

sunk cost fallacy

continuing taste of relationship do to investing time and effort into it

the forgetting curve

after learning info, we loose the info over a course of hours or days.elective attents

selective attention

focusing on one thing while ignoring everything else