Eyes & Ears!
This is the structure in your eyes that gives you night vision.
What are rods?
This is the simple stimulation of a sense organ.
What is sensation?
This is the disorder that occurs when one experiences random sleep attacks.
What is narcolepsy?
This is the stage of moral development where a child focuses more on the consequences of an action.
What is preconventional?
This is one's subjective experience of the world and the mind.
What is consciousness?
Relative size (the fact that objects closer to you appear larger while objects further appear smaller) is an example of this.
What is a monocular depth cue?
This is one of the most important things for perception.
What is attention?
This is the feeling one experiences when they feel like they're falling as they fall asleep.
What is the hypnic jerk?
This is the motor reflex where touching an infants cheek makes them turn in that direction.
What is the rooting reflex?
This is the minimal intensity needed to just barely detect a stimulus in 50% of trials.
What is absolute threshold?
This the part of the eye where vision is the clearest.
What is the fovea?
This is the taste receptor associated with savory tastes (like bacon).
What is umami?
This is the sleep stage where dreaming occurs.
What is REM sleep?
This is what children are said to have developed when they can see things from another perspective.
What is theory of mind?
Researchers noticed that infants stare longer at new information than they do for information they have previously encountered. This is what they called this phenomenon.
What is novelty preference?
This is the fluid filled tube in the inner ear that is the organ of auditory transduction.
What is the cochlea?
This sensation is the most important for survival.
What is pain?
This factor that influences addiction produces symptoms that can include shakes, pain, convulsions, and hallucinations.
What is physical dependence?
This is the process of applying schemas to novel (but similar) information.
What is assimilation?
The Harlow monkeys experiment showed that monkeys prefer a "mother" that provides this as opposed to a mother that provides nutrition.
What is physical contact?
This is how a sound wave with a low frequency and low amplitude would be perceived.
What is low-pitched and soft?
In a classic psychology experiment, a professor asks students to count the amount a times a basketball passes between basketball plays. The students were so focused on the task that they failed to notice a man in a gorilla suit walking through the court. This experiment exemplifies this.
What is inattentional blindness?
This theory of dreaming states that dreams are the result of random activity in the brain.
What is the Activation-Synthesis Model?
This theory posits that older adults are more likely to do things that make them happy now while younger adults are more like to do things that are future oriented.
What is Socioemotional Selectivity Theory?
These are the three altered states of consciousness described in the textbook.
What are dreaming, the effects of psychoactive drugs, and the effects of hypnosis?