Brain, Body, and Awareness
Sensation and Perception
Motivation and Emotion
Consciousness
Misc.
100
Cerebral Cortex is the outermost layer of the brain. It controls our thought processes.
What is the cerebral cortex and its function?
100
Perception is the process of assembling and organizing sensory information to make it meaningful.
What is perception?
100
The drive to seek a goal, such as food, water, or friends.
What is motivation?
100
Consciousness is the organism's awareness, or possibility of knowing, what is happening inside or outside of itself.
What is consciousness?
100
The amount of sugar contained in the blood, indicating hunger levels.
What is blood-sugar level?
200
Each of the two hemispheres controls the opposite side of the body.
What is the tasks of the cerebral hemispheres?
200
Sensation is the process of receiving information from the environment.
What is sensation?
200
A state of the body, causing feelings, such as hope, fear, or love.
What is emotion?
200
Consciousness just below our present awareness.
What is subconsciousness?
200
Increased number of dreams after being deprived of REM sleep.
What is REM sleep rebound?
300
Division of the cerebral cortex that contains the sensory strips.
What is the pariental lobe?
300
The information is processed and interpreted by the brain.
Explain how sensation information is recognized?
300
Drives is the force that pushes an organism into action to reach a specific goal.
What are drives?
300
Thoughts or desires about which we have no direct knowledge.
What is unconsciousness?
300
A nightmare is a frightening dream that occurs during REM sleep.
What is a nightmare?
400
Neurons, dendrites, synapse, neurotransmitters, and vesicles.
What is used for communication in the brain?
400
Glasses are used to change the angle at which the light hits the lens in the eye.
Why will glasses be used to help vision?
400
Homeostasis is the bodily processes of maintaining a balanced internal state.
What is homeostasis?
400
A disorder in which you or a person falls instantly into REM sleep no what they are doing in the environment.
What is Narcolepsy?
400
Night Terrors are nightmares that occurs during NREM sleep when the body is not ready for it.
What are night terrors?
500
Pariental lobe, motor strip, sensory strips, occipital lobe, prefrontal area, frontal association lobe, frontal lobe, and temporal lobe.
What is the parts of the brain?
500
We have rods that are designed to see specific wavelengths of color.
How do we see color?
500
It is a system that ranks humans needs one above the other, with the most basic needs for physical survival at the bottom of the pyramid.
What is the hierarchy of needs?
500
The person often stops breathing while sleeping.
What causes sleep apnea to be very dangerous?
500
The inability to get enough sleep.
What is insomnia?
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