Altered States
A type of altered state in which people narrow their focus of attention and become highly suggestible.
What is hypnosis?
Sleep disorder causing frequent breathing interruptions.
What is sleep apnea?
He thought dreams contain clues to unconscious thoughts and desires.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
The sense of movement and body position.
What is kinesthesis?
The organization of sensory information into meaningful experiences.
What is perception?
A person’s state of awareness.
What is consciousness?
A sleep disorder that is failure to get enough sleep over a prolonged period, possibly due to alcohol or drug use.
What is insomnia?
This occurs during REM sleep.
What is dreaming?
The photoreceptors that are sensitive to color and the photoreceptors useful for night vision.
What are cones and rods?
This depth cue explains why objects seem to move when your head moves?
What is motion parallax?
This influences a person’s behavior after hypnosis.
What is post-hypnotic suggestion?
“Recharging batteries”, allowing the brain to recover from exhaustion and stress, and conserving energy are theories of this.
What is why people sleep?
By generating thought processes, daydreaming may improve this.
What is creativity?
Loudness is measured in these units, and sound wave frequency or pitch, is measured in the rate of this.
What are decibels and vibration?
When we see a sentence, we perceive words rather than individual letters according to this Gestalt principle.
What is proximity?
An approach that focuses attention to produce relaxation and clear one’s mind.
What is meditation?
The stage of sleep from which it is most difficult to wake.
What is stage 4?
Francis Crick theorized that dreams help people remove these.
What are unneeded memories?
The combination of the two images from our eyes into one.
What is binocular fusion?
Filling in gaps in what our senses tell us.
What is perceptual inference?
Three commonly practiced types of meditation.
What are transcendental, breathing, and mindfulness?
A disorder that causes people to fall suddenly asleep during the day.
What is narcolepsy?
Two factors linked to sleepwalking.
What are stress, fatigue, sedatives, and heredity? *Any two*
This regulates the body’s sense of balance.
What is the vestibular system?
The differences in what each eye sees, responsible for depth perception.
What is retinal disparity?