Sleeping
A major function of sleep
What is bodily repair, brain function, and memory consolidation?
The understanding of sensory info
What is perception?
Descartes' quote demonstrating Ghost in the Machine
"I think therefore I am."
The perception of language changed by visual indicators
What is the McGurk Effect?
The awareness of one's self, thoughts, feelings, and environment
What is consciousness?
The disorder that causes breathing to repeatedly stop during sleep
What is sleep apnea?
Rods & cones' interpretation in the eye
What is rods responding to light intensities and cones responding to colors/frequencies?
This philosopher believed that the mind and the body were two separate beings
Who is Renee Descartes?
The evidence for top-down processing
What is shape & size constancy?
The idea of the reality being separated into two parts: the mind and the body; they are not codependent of each other
What is dualism?
The characteristics of REM sleep
What are rapid eye movements, high brain activity, vivid dreaming, muscle paralysis, increased blood pressure, genital arousal, twitching?
The difference between absolute and difference threshold
What is the absolute limit of sensory sensitivity vs. the smallest detectable difference?
This philosopher argued that free will doesn't exist based on the law of cause and effect
Who is Demociritis?
The inability to form new memories and the loss of past memories
The subjective perspective of experience
What is qualia?
What is the Tetris Effect?
The influence past experience has on perception
What is top-down processing?
A historical/cultural theory about dreaming
What is insight into the supernatural, communicate with God(s), and the soul leaving the body?
The theory that no single thing is the self because memories tie an individual together, but aspects are always changing
What is the Bundle Theory?
The difficulty in which philosophers face to deem how brain processes influence feelings and emotions
What is the explanatory gap?
The description of the correlating brain wave to its sleep stage: Alpha, Theta, Delta
What are:
1. Alpha Wave - Stage 0 (drowsy/falling asleep): brain is highly active, but slower than fully alert?
2. Theta Wave - Stages 1 & 2 (light sleep): slow brain activity, muscle tension decline?
2. Stages 3 & 4 (slow wave sleep): deep sleep, slowest heart rate, relaxed muscles, body repair & recovery; the hardest stage to wake someone up from?
The Gestalt principles
What is the law of continuity, figure-ground, and the law of simplicity?
The depiction of the Creation of Adam
What is the possibility that the gift to man is making the brain capable of its own existence?
The term for sense of self
What is confabulation?
The hard and easy problem of consciousness
Easy problem: how the brain processes info
Hard problem: qualia, consciousness, behavioral functions, etc