Sensing the world
Which Gavilan College resource connects students with food, housing resources, CalFresh help, transportation, and hygiene items?
What is psychophysics?
These photoreceptors handle night vision and vision at the edges of your sight.
What are rods?
The stage of sleep when most dreaming happens.
The stage of sleep when most dreaming happens.
Caffeine and nicotine belong to this drug class, which speeds you up.
Caffeine and nicotine belong to this drug class, which speeds you up.
Alcohol and cigarettes can harm a developing baby before birth. Harmful substances like these are called...
What are teratogens?
Rods let us see color.
Cones see color, not rods.
On a hearing test, a faint tone really is played and you correctly say "yes." Signal detection calls this outcome a...
What is a hit?
This Gestalt principle explains why we group items that sit close together.
What is proximity?
Your body's daily sleep and wake clock
What is the circadian rhythm?
Alcohol belongs to this drug class, which slows you down.
What are depressants?
Stroke a newborn's cheek, and the baby turns toward it to feed.
What is the rooting reflex?
Stage N1 sleep is the stage when we dream.
Most dreaming happens in REM.
The smallest change in a stimulus you can detect about half the time, also called the just noticeable difference (JND).
What is the difference threshold?
Where the optic nerve sits, there is this.
What is the blind spot?
When it gets dark, your brain releases this hormone to help you fall asleep
What is melatonin?
Feeling sick or in pain after stopping a drug.
What is withdrawl?
A baby knows a toy still exists after it is hidden under a blanket.
What is object permanence?
Depressants, like alcohol, speed up the nervous system.
They slow it down.
Sweet, salty, sour, bitter, piquancy, and this savory sixth taste.
What is umami?
After a few minutes in the pool, you stop noticing how cold the water feels.
What is sensory adaptation?
This sleep disorder means trouble falling asleep or staying asleep
What is insomnia?
Needing more of a drug to get the same effect.
What is tolerance?
A teen feels like everyone is watching them all the time.
What is the imaginary audience?
In the skin, only pain has its own special receptors.
Pressure, not pain.
Your sense of where your body parts are and how they are moving, picked up by neurons in your skin, joints, and tendons.
What is proprioception?
Listening to one friend at a loud party and tuning out everyone else
What is selective attention?
Breathing stops and starts during sleep. A CPAP machine helps.
What is sleep apnea?
A drug that copies, or mimics, a neurotransmitter is called this.
What is an agonist?
This parenting style sets clear rules and is also warm and caring.
What is authoritative parenting?
A hypnotized person must obey the hypnotist.
They can refuse