States of Consciousness
Patient reports that he has no trouble falling asleep; however he has multiple awakenings during the night and does not know why. He awakes feeling unrefreshed. He experiences daytime sleepiness. He awakes with his mouth feeling dry.
What is sleep apnea?
The ability for the brain to be flexible and adapt
During this stage your brain experiences alpha waves and you may have hallucinations
What is NREM stage 1?
This is the ability to not recognize/perceive faces
Prosapognosia
Feature Detectors
During this stage your brain experiences delta waves and you may sleep walk
What is NREM stage 3?
The primary connection between the left and the right hemisphere
What is the corpus callosum?
Riley has concerns about her sleeping habits. Last night she woke up in his backyard fishing in her pond. She recalls that she was just dreaming that she was on vacation fishing. The previous week she experienced a similar situation in which she woke up cooking Mac and Cheese when she was having a dream that she was making her 4th block meal.
What is sleepwalking?
The idea that we see because our cones are made up of three primary colors
Trichromatic theory
If these are moved by a WIDTH of an atom they produce a signal
Hair Cells
The literal content of your dream
What is manifest content?
What happens if the Corpus Callosum is cut?
Split Brain
What are the three colors?
Red, Green, and Blue
What is the Gustatory Sense?
Taste
The Principle that there is an unconscious and conscious track
Dual Processing
The patient suffers from excessive fatigue and sleepiness during the day. She often has difficulty concentrating and performing tasks. The patient drinks several cups of coffee and diet sodas to stay awake during the day. She also has an alcoholic beverage or two to help her sleep. She can fall asleep okay, but cannot stay asleep for very long and wakes up numerous times and cannot fall back asleep.
Red VS Green
Blue VS Yellow
Where are Hair cells located?
Cochlea
a condition in which a person can respond to a visual stimulus without consciously experiencing it.
Blindsight
Patient feels excessively sleepy during the day. She sometimes cannot tell if she is dreaming or hallucinating. When she wakes up in the morning she feels glued to her bed as if she cannot move. She mentions that she feels weak when she laughs or is being tickled.
What is narcolepsy?
What are the two physical characteristics of Light?
Wavelength and Intensity
What are the three things that influence our pain?
Biological, Psychological, Sociocultural
The hidden meaning of your dream.
What is your latent content?
What is one of the three things that can happen if you don't get enough sleep?
Receive sensory stimulation--often using receptor cells
Transform that stimulation into neural impulses
Deliver the neural information to our brain
Transduction
all humans have a minimum stimulation limit that all stimuli must require before we can feel it. What is this AND who said it?