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This sleep stage, characterized by rapid eye movements, is when most vivid dreaming occurs.
Difficulty: Easy- Deep sleep
- REM sleep
- Light sleep
- Twilight sleep
In Baddeley's model, this component stores about 2 seconds of speech sounds through subvocal rehearsal—which is why phone numbers are hard to remember if they take longer to say.
Difficulty: Medium- Phonological loop
- Episodic buffer
- Visuospatial sketchpad
- Articulatory control process
This form of plasticity describes how the history of synaptic activity influences the direction and magnitude of subsequent plasticity.
Difficulty: Hard- Metaplasticity
- Homosynaptic plasticity
- Heterosynaptic plasticity
- Structural plasticity
A repeated word or phrase used to focus the mind during meditation.
Difficulty: Easy- Mudra
- Mantra
- Mandala
- Mala
This phenomenon, studied by Benjamin Libet, showed brain activity preceding conscious decisions by hundreds of milliseconds, challenging notions of free will.
Difficulty: Medium- Readiness potential
- Action potential
- Event-related potential
- Motor preparation signal
In contrast to standard testing effect findings, errorful generation followed by feedback sometimes produces better learning than error-free study, depending on error type and correction timing.
Difficulty: Hard- Error-corrected learning
- Hypercorrection effect
- Productive failure
- Learning from mistakes
This organ, weighing about 3 pounds in adults, serves as the command center for the entire nervous system.
Difficulty: Easy- Brain
- Heart
- Spinal cord
- Liver
This Buddhist text, whose name translates to Foundation of Mindfulness, is considered the primary source for Vipassana instructions.
Difficulty: Medium- Heart Sutra
- Diamond Sutra
- Satipatthana Sutta
- Dhammapada
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