The Brain
The system that makes up the brain, divided into two cerebral hemispheres
Central Nervous System
The period of sleep that involves a high level of eye movement
Rapid Eye Movement (REM Sleep)
The study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by social contexts and interactions
Social Psychology
The study that simulated a prison experience with college students
Stanford Prison Experiment
What is the only mammal that can fly
Bat
Contains nerves that transmit sensory information from the skin, muscles, and other sensory organs to the spinal cord and brain
Somatic Nervous System
The biological rhythm that is around a 24-hour cycle
Circadian Rhythm
The unpleasant psychological state resulting from an inconsistency between two or more thoughts (or between thoughts and behaviors)
Cognitive Dissonance
The sleep researcher that studied REM sleep deprivation by waking subjects up as soon as they entered REM sleep
William Dement
how many weeks is in a fortnight
two
Sympathetic and Parasympathetic
"The special features that exists in the mind that permit us to know that we ourselves exist and that things around us exist"
Consciousness (according to Antonio Damasio)
The strategy where someone is asked to make a small commitment and then asked to make a larger commitment once the smaller commitment is completed
Foot in the Door
The machine used to read brainwaves, invented in the 1920s. Was used to observe changes in the brain during sleep
Electroencephalograph (EEG)
what is the only sport to be played on the moon
golf
The part of the brain that controls life-support functions such as breathing, heart rate, and blood pressure
The Medulla
The theory that sleep is necessary to repair our brains and organs
Restorative Sleep Theory
The route of the Elaboration Likelihood Model that involves a high elaboration of information and uses facts and statistics to convince people
Central Route
The study done in 1961 that explored how far subjects would go to obey a perceived authority
Stanley Milgrim's Experiment
Which ear did van Gogh cut off
his left
Makes up 75% of the cerebral cortex, processing things like thinking, language, and perception
Association Cortex
The part of the brain that sends serotonin neurons throughout the brain, becoming most active at the start of sleep
Raphe Nucleus
A strong concurrence-seeking (the avoidance of disagreements within a group) tendency that interferes with effective group decision making
Groupthink
In Asch's Conformity Experiment, what percentage of people would always follow the group and also give the wrong answer?
5%
What was the first toy to be advertised on TV
Mr. Potato Head