A Good Friend of Yours Wonders Why You Always Seem

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Essay

A good friend of yours wonders why you always seem to have the latest technology, long before anyone else. He then says, "I always want to wait until the bugs have been worked out. It saves me money and aggravation." Use diffusion of innovation theory to explain how you differ as consumers, and what this means to marketers.

Differentiate between the types of memory storage locations in the brain.

Identify and explain the theories of forgetting and memory decay.

Understand the impact of brain damage on memory functions.

Describe the process and implications of memory consolidation and retrieval.

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Definitions:

Acetylcholine

A neurotransmitter in both the central and peripheral nervous systems that plays a key role in arousal, attention, memory, and motivation.

Somatic Nervous System

A part of the peripheral nervous system that controls voluntary movements of the body through the control of skeletal muscles.

Autonomic Nervous System

The part of the nervous system that controls involuntary functions such as heart rate, digestion, and respiratory rate, divided into the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems.

Chemical Synapses

Specialized junctions through which neurons signal to each other and to non-neuronal cells, allowing the transmission of chemical messengers (neurotransmitters).