Consciousness
Condition where a person can respond to a visual stimulus without experiencing it.
What is blindsight?
The approximate 24 hour cycle for humans that relates to temperature and wakefulness.
What is circadian rhythm.
This sleep disorder happens when a person can not fall asleep, or has trouble staying asleep.
What is insomnia?
This theory says dreams help us sort the days events and consolidate our memories.
What is Information Processing/Consolidation?
When energy such as sound is transformed into neural impulses the brain can interpret.
What is transduction?
Type of processing that allows you to see red, toyota Camry, moving all at once.
Stage of sleep where Delta waves are present signaling a deep sleep.
What is nREM 3?
This sleep disorder happens when a person unknowingly falls into REM sleep at inappropriate times.
What is narcolepsy?
This theory says we dream to preserve neural pathways.
What is Physiological Function?
When sensory receptors take in information and the information works up to the brain.
What is bottom-up processing?
Type of processing that requires you do things in order like solve a Quadratic Formula.
What is sequential processing?
This stage is known as paradoxical sleep because you dream but cannot move your body.
What is REM sleep?
This sleep disorder causes a person to stop breathing and have momentary awakenings as a result they may not remember.
What is sleep apnea?
This theory says we dream because neural activity makes random images and our brain makes them into stories.
What is Activation Synthesis?
This is the minimum difference between two stimuli required for detection.
What is the difference threshold, or just noticeable difference (JND)?
Our subjective awareness of ourselves and our environment.
What is consciousness?
This specific part of your brain is responsible for controlling melatonin release based on light.
What is the suprachiasmatic nucleus?
This sleep disorder happens when a person can move while dreaming because sleep paralysis does not occur as it should.
What is REM sleep behavior disorder?
This theory says we dream based on our level of development so dreams can simulate our lives and worst case scenarios.
What is Cognitive Development?
When the brain processes information based on experiences or already known expectations.
What is top-down processing?
A periodic, natural loss of consciousness.
What is sleep?
These waves are seen on an EEG when a person is awake but relaxed.
Alpha Waves
This sleep disorder happens in nREM 3 and is also known as somnambulism.
What is sleepwalking?
This concept states that when we do not get enough REM sleep, REM will increase following sleep deprivation.
What is REM rebound?
This law states noticing differences is based on a constant minimum percentage, not a constant amount.
What is Weber's Law?