Sensation & Perception
The physical process of our sensory receptors detecting stimuli from the environment.
What is sensation?
An individual's observable physical characteristics, like hair and eye color.
What is a phenotype?
The hormone released by the pineal gland that makes us feel sleepy.
What is melatonin?
This lobe, at the very back of the head, is the primary visual processing center.
What is the occipital lobe?
The most common sleep disorder, defined by difficulty falling or staying asleep.
What is insomnia?
This Gestalt principle suggests we group together objects that are close to one another.
What is proximity?
This division of the autonomic nervous system is responsible for the "fight or flight" response.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
According to Freud, this is the hidden, symbolic meaning of a dream.
What is the latent content?
This lobe, located on the sides of the head, is associated with hearing and memory, and contains Wernicke's area.
What is the temporal lobe?
A group of sleep disorders involving unwanted motor behaviors or experiences, such as sleepwalking.
What are parasomnias?
The process of converting an outside stimulus, like light, into a neural signal the brain can understand.
What is transduction?
A specific version of a gene; it can be dominant or recessive.
What is an allele?
An individual's specific circadian pattern, which determines if they are a "night owl" or an "early bird.
What is a chronotype?
Containing the somatosensory cortex, this lobe processes information from the body's senses like touch, temperature, and pain.
What is the parietal lobe?
This disorder occurs when a person stops breathing for brief periods during sleep.
What is sleep apnea?
This type of processing is driven by your previous knowledge and expectations to interpret information.
What is top-down processing?
The theory that our genes set the boundaries for our potential, and our environment determines where we fall within those boundaries
What is the range of reaction?
This sleep disorder is characterized by an irresistible urge to fall asleep during waking hours.
What is narcolepsy?
This lobe contains the motor cortex and is responsible for reasoning and language production.
What is the frontal lobe?
Occurring during deep NREM sleep, these episodes involve a sense of panic and screaming, with no memory of the event afterward.
What are night terrors?
The failure to notice a completely visible object because your attention is focused on another task.
What is inattentional blindness?
The study of how behaviors and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work.
What is epigenetics?
An emotional or mental need for a drug, often to relieve negative emotions.
What is psychological dependence?
Damage to Broca's area, which leads to difficulty producing speech, means there is damage to this lobe.
What is the frontal lobe?
This disorder involves the muscle paralysis of REM sleep not occurring, leading the person to physically act out their dreams.
What is REM sleep behavior disorder?