Year 12 · VCE / Psychology
Flashcards and recall.
Make a short deck from material you need to recall without notes.
Try this with Psychology
- Write one prompt per card. Use definitions, explanations or examples from your current topic.
- Answer aloud before turning the card. Split a card if it asks for several unrelated facts.
- Set aside missed cards and revisit them in a later session.
Recall topics
- Nervous system: definition and main divisions
- Somatic vs Autonomic Nervous System
- Sympathetic nervous system: function
- Parasympathetic nervous system: function
- Neurotransmitter: definition
- Dopamine: function and examples
- Serotonin: function and clinical significance
- Acetylcholine: primary functions
- GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid): role
- Glutamate: function and concerns
- Neuromodulator: definition and difference from neurotransmitter
- Synaptic plasticity: definition
- Long-term potentiation (LTP)
- Long-term depression (LTD)
- Stress: biological definition in psychology
- Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS): three stages
- Coping mechanisms: definition and two main categories
- Classical conditioning: definition and key terms
- Pavlov's dog experiment: procedure and outcome
- Operant conditioning: definition and key figure
- Positive vs negative reinforcement
- Observational learning: definition and key figure
- Bobo doll experiment: what it demonstrated
- Aboriginal ways of knowing: key feature in psychology context
- Multi-store model of memory: three stores
- Cerebral cortex: four lobes and primary functions
- Hippocampus: location and function
- Amygdala: location and function
- Cerebellum: location and primary function
- Mnemonic 'PAT' for brain regions under temporal lobe
- Consciousness
- Sleep
- EEG (Electroencephalogram)
- NREM (Non-Rapid Eye Movement) Sleep
- Stage 1 NREM Sleep
- Stage 2 NREM Sleep
- Stage 3 NREM Sleep
- REM (Rapid Eye Movement) Sleep
- Sleep Cycle
- Circadian Rhythm
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