Sensation
What is a Trichromatic?
What is the process in which the eye’s lens changes shape to focus near or far objects on the retina?
Accomodation
Drugs that create an altered state of consciousness
What are Psychoactive Drugs?
How long is the sleep cycle?
90 minutes
Things that can damage a child in he womb
What are Teratogens?
How does light move?
In photons
What is info. processing guided by higher-level mental processes, as when we construct perceptions drawing on our experience and expectations?
Top down processing
When higher doses of a drug are required to produce its original effect
What is Tolerance?
What is the order of the sleep stages?
1, 2, 3, 4, n3, n2, n1, REM
Mental Representation of an object
What is a schema?
Sour, bitter, salt, sweet, Umami (savory)
What is the ability to adjust to changed sensory input, including an artificially displaced or even inverted visual field?
What type of drug is morphine and fentanyl classified under?
Opiates
What brain waves are seen when you are wake and in REM sleep?
Beta Waves
What are the Piaget Stages?
Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete Operational, and Formal Operational
What effect helps us locate sound?
The Doppler Effect
What is an illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent lights blink on and off in quick succession
Phi Phenomenon
What are the different types of drug classifications?
Depressants, Stimulants, Opiates, Hallucinogens, and Inhalants
Which stage does the hypnagogic image occur in?
Stage 1
Abstract thinking is found in which of Piaget’s Stages
Formal Operational
How does the retina see objects?
The retina sees things upside down
What is the conversion of one form of energy into another. In sensation the transformation of stimulus energies, such as sights, sounds, and smells, into neural impulses our brain can interpret?
Transduction
What category spray paint in?
Inhalant
Who discovered REM Sleep?
Eugene Aserinsky
Who developed the child moral development theory?
Lawrence Kolhberg