Consiousness
What is our subjective awareness of ourselves and our environment?
Consiousness
What are the four stages of sleep?
-NREM1
-NREM2
-NREM3
-REM
what term is referred to as our "biological clock"
circadian rhythym
amplitude is
how loud something is
information being detected and picked up in your environment
sensation
What is the condition in which a person can respond to a visual stimulus without consciously experiencing it?
blindsight
Rapid eye movement (vivid dreams; paralyzed; memory consolidation)
REM
what sleep disorder causes a sudden stop of breathing while sleeping
sleep apnea
what is it called when we taste sound or hear colors
synthesia
What is the term for our senses influencing eachother
sensory interaction
what is the split of our consciousness on two things
multi tasking
if we do not sleep enough it affects our: (list two)
-mood, focus, weight, overall health, immune system
what stage does sleep spindles occur
NREM2
contains rods and cones and neurons that begin processing of visual information
retina
cones allow us to see
color
True or false: parallel processing is faster than sequential processing
True
how does sleeping help us (list two)
-protection, restore muscles, energy, growth, creative thinking, consolidation,
Name two sleep disorders
-insomnia, narcolepsy, sleep apnea, somnambulism, REM Sleep Behavior Disorder
olfactory is another word for
smell
what is the minimum amount of stimuli for us to notice 50% of the time
absolute threshold
term for the study of brain activity linked with cognition (thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating)
cognitive neuroscience
Give an example of a dream theory
- Information processing, physiological function, activation synthesis, cognitive development
who said that the unconsious brain was an unaccessable place for dark thoughts and fears
Freud
What is the principle called in which 2 stimuli must differ by a constant minimum percentage for us to detect a difference?
Webers Law
list the fancy words for smell, taste, and hearing
olfaction, gustation, and audition