Dr. DePasquale studies brain activity linked with cognition. She studies thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. She is this type of scientist.
What is a Cognitive Neurologist?
Periodic, natural loss of conciousness.
What is sleep?
Gaining weight due to hormonal imbalance may be due to.
What is sleep deprivation?
Information being detected and picked up from your environment.
What is sensation?
Psychology's biggest debate on whether human traits are inherited or developed through experience.
What is Nature vs. Nurture?
Driving on a familiar road, when you suddenly see a deer, involves this type of processing.
What is Dual Processing?
The distinct brain wave patterns happening in this process.
What are sleep stages?
The brain's ability to change and reorganize after damage, strongest in childhood.
Dr. Reed is running an unethical experiment on patients in a medically induced coma. They did not consent to the experiment before they entered the coma. Dr. Reed should have done this type of experiment instead.
What is a case study?
Over the course of the night you typically go through this many sleep cycles.
What is 4-6?
Converting sound waves into neural impulses in our brain is an example of.
What is transduction?
Cells in the nervous system that support and protect neurons (worker bees).
What are glial cells?
Participants who respond more quickly or accurately to questions they have seen before have experienced this.
What is priming?
Jet lag disrupts this natural process of regular bodily rhythms.
What is the Circadian Rhythm?
The process when excess neurotransmitters are reabsorbed or broken down by enzymes.
What is reuptake?
We spend this much of our sleep in NREM2.
What is 40-50%?
Alter the brain causing changes in perception or mood.
What are Psychoactive Drugs?