Sleep & Dreaming
This stage of sleep is when the body is most physically restored, with slow brain waves and no dreaming.
What is NREM 3/4?
This Gestalt principle states that objects that look the same are perceived as belonging together.
What is the law of similarity?
This is the state in which we spend most of our day, involving clear, organized awareness.
What is waking consciousness?
In classical conditioning, this is the learned response to a previously neutral stimulus.
What is conditioned response?
This famous author wrote The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings triology.
Who is J.R.R. Tolkein?
This sleep disorder involves sudden REM sleep episodes.
What is narcolepsy?
This phenomenon occurs when a person fails to notice a major change in their environment because their attention is elsewhere.
What is inattentional blindness?
This state occurs when a person’s awareness is reduced due to drugs, fatigue, or hypnosis.
What is an altered state of consciousness?
In operant conditioning, this type of reinforcement adds something pleasant to increase a behavior.
What is positive reinforcement?
This is Ms. Smith's age.
What is 29?
This theory of sleep argues that sleep evolved to keep organisms safe during dangerous nighttime hours.
What is preservation?
This principle of Gestalt psychology states that we tend to fill in missing parts of an incomplete image.
What is the law of closure?
This term describes the brain processing information on both a conscious and unconscious level at the same time.
What is dual processing?
In operant conditioning, this type of consequence decreases the likelihood of a behavior by adding something unpleasant.
What is positive punishment?
What is the most popular emoji ever?
The laugh crying face
This stage of sleep becomes longer as the night progresses, leading to more vivid dreams in the early morning.
What is REM sleep?
This concept explains why you stop noticing a constant stimulus, such as the feeling of your socks on your feet.
What is sensory adaptation?
This theory argues that hypnosis works because people follow social cues and expectations rather than entering a distinct altered state.
What is Social Influence Theory?
In operant conditioning, what is it called when you continually work towards making the subject's behaviour closer and closer to the desired behaviour?
What is shaping?
What animal had the most powerful bite in the world?
What is the Nile Crocodile?
This theory suggests that dreams help the brain sort and store information from the day.
What is information-processing theory?
This term describes the process by which sensory receptors convert physical energy—like light waves or sound waves—into neural signals the brain can interpret.
What is transduction?
This theory proposes that hypnosis involves a split in consciousness, where one part of the mind responds to the hypnotist while another part remains aware of reality.
What is Divided Consciousness Theory?
This occurs when a behavior stops because reinforcement is no longer provided.
What is extinction?
Ms. Smith's cats are named this.
Who is Domino and Kia?