These are the terms you need to understand and remember. These facts and concepts are the raw materials for your studying.
Here’s how to approach it
Start by identifying the “Don’t Knows.” These are the items you are sure you don’t know. We have a unique ability to know what we don’t know. Without searching, you know you don’t know the word shkuumptin (because I just made it up). But you didn’t have to search. You immediately knew it wasn’t in your memory systems.
Use this ability, called negative recognition, to speed up your studying. Scan through the list of terms and make note of the ones you don’t know anything about. Look them up and move them from Don’t Knows to Not Sures.
Once everything is either Know or Not Sure, you can organize the list into clusters, study the clusters and remember everything better.
Terms
- alcohol
- alcohol use disorder
- alpha waves
- beta waves
- change blindness
- circadian rhythm
- cognitive neuroscience
- consciousness
- delta waves
- dreams
- drug addiction
- dual processing
- expectancy effect
- hallucinations
- hypnagogic
- inattentional blindness
- insomnia
- k-complexes
- latent content
- manifest content
- N1
- N2
- N3
- narcolepsy
- near death experience
- night terrors
- nightmares
- NREM sleep
- opiates
- parallel processing
- REM rebound
- REM sleep
- selective attention
- sequential processing
- sleep
- sleep apnea
- sleep cycle
- sleep deprivation
- sleep disorders
- sleep spindles
- stimulants
- suprachiasmatic nucleus
- THC
- theta waves
- tolerance
Important Terms
- bottom-up processing
- figure
- Gestalt
- ground
- monocular cues
- opponent-process theory
- optic chiasm
- parallel processing
- pragnanz
- primacy effect
- rods
- sparse encoding
- Stroop effect
- top-down processing
- upright faces
