The process of detecting physical energies with the sensory organs.
What is sensation.
100
Difficulty focusing on distant objects.
What is myopia.
100
Mental states other than ordinary waking consciousness.
What is altered states of consciousness.
100
Carries information between the CNS and the rest of the body.
What is the PNS (peripheral nervous system).
200
The system of nerves linking the spinal cord with the body and sense organs; Regulates body activities that are under conscious control, such as the movement of skeletal muscles.
What is the somatic nervous system.
200
Visual receptors for colors and daylight visual acuity.
What are cones.
200
The light sensitive layer of cells at the back of the eye.
What is the retina.
200
When you attend to a single focal point, such as an object, or a thought, or your own breathing.
What is concentrative meditation.
200
Neuron fibers that receive incoming messages.
What are dendrites.
300
Area of the brain associated with movement, the sense of self, and higher mental functions.
What are the frontal lobes.
300
The sense of smell.
What is olfaction.
300
Hearing loss in which sounds are not conducted by the outer ear and/or middle ear and therefore do not reach the inner ear.
What is conductive hearing loss.
300
A state of open, nonjudgmental awareness of current experience.
What is mindfulness.
300
The system of nerves carrying information to and from the internal organs and glands; Controls automatic-type functions.
What is the autonomic nervous system.
400
The two branches of the ANS.
What are the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches.
400
Applying higher level knowledge to rapidly organize sensory information into a meaningful perception.
What is top-down processing.
400
When we automatically fill in gaps in order to make whole objects.
What is Gestalt principle of closure.
400
An altered state of consciousness characterized by narrowed attention and increased suggestibility.
What is hypnosis.
400
An imaging technique that results in a computerized image of brain activity based on glucose consumption in the brain.
What is a PET scan.
500
Portion of the cerebral cortex in which vision registers in the brain.
What are the occipital lobes.
500
The four main tastes that the human taste system detects.
What are salty, sweet, sour, and bitter.
500
Theory that holds that odors are related to the shapes of chemical molecules.
What is the lock-and-key theory of olfaction.
500
A mental exercise for producing relaxation or heightened awareness.
What is meditation.
500
A language area of the brain related to grammar and pronunciation.