Information gets into our brain in a way that allows it to be stored.

Stimuli are recorded by our senses and held briefly in.

Information held in a way that allows it to be later retrieved.
Reactivating and recalling the information.
Producing it in a form similar to what was encoded.
Some of the information recorded by our senses is processed into _____ and encoded through
_____.
Information then moves into __________ where it can be retrieved later.
More goes into short-term memory besides rehearsal this is now called _________.
Some information seems to go straight from sensory experience into long-term memory this is
______.
It holds information not just to rehearse it , but to process it (hearing a word problem in math and
doing it in your head).
Repeating a password to memorize it.
Integrates information from long-term memory with new information coming in from sensory
memory.
Choosing what to attend to, respond to.
Refers to the immediate, very brief recording of sensory information it is processed into shortterm, working or long term memory.
Rearranging your room furniture in your mind.
Echo _______ Image ______
Evidence of auditory sensory memory.
Can occur when someone say What did I just say?
Even if you werent paying attention, you can retrieve about the last eight words from ________.
If some information is selected from sensory memory to be sent to short term memory. How
much information can we hold there? Who proposed it?
Average person, free form distraction, can hold about ___________________________________.
Who wanted to know the duration of short-term memory?
Duration of short term memory?
A way to encode information into memory to keep it from decaying and make it easier to
retrieve.
Also known as studying.
Organizing data into manageable units.
Works even better if we can assemble into meaningful groups.
Memory trick that connects information to an existing memory strengths such as imagery or
structure.
Refers to the technique of visually associating new words with an existing list that is already
memorized along with numbers.
Refers to cramming information all at once.
We deeply process even a simple word list by focusing on the meaning of the word.
Refers to memorizing the appearance or sound of words.
Relating material to ourselves, aids encoding and retention.
Declarative memories includes facts, stories, and meaning of words such as the first time riding a
bike or facts about types of bikes.
Encoding and storage of explicit memories is facilitated by the ___________.
Retrieval and use of explicit memories, which is in part a working memory or executive function
is directed by the _____________.
Includes skills, procedures, and conditioned associations.
Forms and stores our conditioned responses.

Next to the thalamus, controls movement and forms and stores procedural memory and motor
skills.
Refer to emotionally intense events that become burned in as a vivid seeming memory.

-Awareness of all the sensations,

perceptions, memories, and feelings you are
aware at any instant.
-Normal, clear, organized, alert awareness.
-Changes that occur in quality and pattern of
consciousness.
-Example of ASC.
-The natural periodic suspension of
consciousness. Innate, biological, rhythm
-For restoration and repair of the body.
-To keep us from wasting energy and risking
harm during the time of the day which we
are not adapted.
-Brain-wave machine, amplifies and records
electrical activity in the brain.
-Small fast waves associated with alertness
and awakeness.
-Large fast waves associated with relaxation
and falling sleep.
-Kind of awake, Kind of asleep. Your brain
produces theta waves.
-More Theta Waves that get progressively
slower. Begin to show sleep spindles.
-Short burst of rapid brain waves.
-Slow wave sleep. You produce Delta waves.
Vital for restoring bodys growth hormones
and good overall health.
-Often called paradoxical sleep. Brain is very
active. Dreams usually occur. Body is
essentially paralyzed.
-Occurs during stages 1,2,3,4
-Associated with dreaming , sleep is very
light, body is very still
-Lack of muscle paralysis
-Seems to help us recover form daily fatigue.
-Difficulty in getting to sleep, frequent
nighttime awakenings, waking to early
-Exacerbate insomnia, cause decrease in
REM and stage 4 and may cause
dependency.
-Sleeplessness that follows withdrawal from
sleeping pills.
-Brief period of sleepiness caused by worry,
stress, and excitement.
-Exists if sleeping troubles last for more than

3 weeks
-Amino acid (chemical) that increases
serotonin leverls and therefore leads to
sleepiness.
-Occurs during NREM and stage 2 and 4
-Speaking while asleep. Occurs in NREM
sleep
-Bad dreams, occur during nrem sleep, easily
remembered
-Mentally rehearse the changed dream
before you go to sleep again, may help to
eliminate nightmares.
-Total panic occurs, hallucinations may
occur,occurs during stage 4, not
remembered
Sudden irresistible sleep attacks, may suffer
form catalepsy.
-Sudden, temporary muscle paralysis leading
to complete body collapse
-Interrupted breathing during sleep, cause of
very loud snoring
-Sudden unexplained death of healthy infant
-Emphasizes internal conflicts, motives and
unconscious forces
-Symbolic part Meaning
-Many dreams are expressions of
unconscious desires
-Images that has deeper symbolic part
-Dream content may be affected by motor
commands in the brain that are not carried
out.
-Combining several people, objects or events
into a single dream image
-Directing emotions or actions toward safe or
unimportant dream images
-Expressing feelings or ideas symbolically in
dreams, not literal expression
-Making a dream more logical and adding
detail while remembering it
-Most dreams are a special message about
what is missing in our lives, what we avoid
doing when awake, or feelings that we need
to re-own
-Person feels fully awake within the dream

and feels capable of normal thought and

action
-Altered state of consciousness characterized
by intensely narrowed attention and
increased openness to suggestion
-How easily a person can be hypnotyzed
-Tendency to hypnotized people to carry out
suggested actions as though they were
involuntary.
-Hypnosis can?
-Hypnosis cannot?
-Very relax state
-Substance capable of altering attention,
judgement, memory, time sense, self control,
emotion or perception
-Substance that increases activity in the
body and nervous system
- Substance that decreases activity in the
body and nervous system
-Substance that alters sensations and
perceptions of the user.
-Addiction based on drug tolerance and
withdrawal symptoms
-Reduction in bodys response to a drug
-Physical illness following withdrawal of a
drug
-Drug dependence based on psychological or
emosional needs.
-Synthetic stimulants that excite nervous
system
-2 types of stimulants
-Loss of contact with reality because of
amphetamine use, user tends to have
paranoid delusions

-Central nervous system stimulant, derived

from coca plant, also used as local anesthetic
-Inability to feel pleasure, Common after
cocaine withdrawal
-Chemically engineered version of an
existing drug, made to skirt drug laws
-Chemically similar to Amphetamine, created
by small variations in the drug structures.
-May cause severe liver damage, fatal heat
exhaustion, damages serotonergic brain cells
-Most frequently used psychoactive drug in
North America, present in colas, chocolates
and coffee, tea
-Causes tremors, sweating, talkativeness,
tinnitus, suppresses fatigue or sleepiness,
increases alertness
-May be hazardous to pregnant women if
uses excessively may cause birth defects
-Physiological dependence of caffeine
-Insomnia, irritability, loss of apetite, chills,
racing heart, elevated body temperature
-Natural stimulant found mainly in tobacco
-May cause stomach pain, vomiting, diarrhe,
confusion, tremors, addictive
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