The Brain
Paying Attention
Sleep and Dreams
Sleep Disorders and Dreams
100
Our awareness of ourselves and our environment
What is conscousness?
100
The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus
What is selective attention?
100
The biological clock; regular bodily rhythms that occur on a 24-hour cycle
What is the circadian rhythm?
100
Recurring problems in falling or staying asleep.
What is insomnia?
200
The interdisciplinary study of the brain ad activity linked with cognition
What is cognitive neuroscience?
200
Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere
What is inattentional blindness?
200
A recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur. Also known as paradoxical sleep.
What is REM (rapid eye movement) sleep?
200
A sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks.
What is sleep apnea?
300
The principle that information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks
What is dual processing?
300
Failing to notice changes in the environment.
What is change blindness?
300
The relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state.
What are alpha waves?
400
Your ability to attend to only one voice among many
What is the cocktail party effect?
400
The large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep.
What are delta waves?
500
Periodic, natural, reversible loss of consciousness - as distinct from unconsciousness resulting from a coma, general anesthesia, or hibernation.
What is sleep?
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