Hearing
what is a Homunculus
Depiction of what sense you use the most in the proportion of your body.
Difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep
Insomnia
tolerance
the diminishing effect with regular use of the dame dose of drugs
Sensation
The process by which our sensory receptors and nerve system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment.
Classical Conditioning
What is directional stereophonic hearing?
Ability to hear sounds coming from different directions.
overpowering urge to fall asleep, that may occur while engaged in an activity.
Narcolepsy
Deep lesioning
destroys tiny clusters of the brain cells, leaving surrounding tissue unharmed
Preception
The process of organizing/interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognise meaningful objects and events.
Operant conditioning
Operant conditioning is a method of learning that occurs through rewards and punishments for behavior
what is vestibular sense?
monitors your head position and your balance. Fluid in your ear helps us know when we feel dizzy.
4 things the brain does during sleep?
1. sleep protects
2. sleep recuperates
3. sleep helps memory
4. sleep & growth
What does a PET scan view
Structure of the brain and how it's functioning.
Bottom-up processing
starts at sensory receptors and works up to higher levels of processing (Sensation)
Cognitive learning
a change in knowledge attributable to experience
What are the Four distinct skin sensations?
- pressure
- warmth
- cold
-pain
cycle through ___ different stages of sleep throughout the night. Each cycle lasts about ___ mins each
4, 90-120
top-down processing
information processing guided by higher-level processing as when we contract perception drawing from our expectations (Preception)
associative learning
s learning about the relationship between two separate stimuli
What is kinesthesis?
The way that your body senses its own movement and positioning.
What is a circadian rhythm?
Your body's internal clock
controls thought, memory, emotion, touch, motor skills, vision, breathing, temperature, hunger, and every process that regulates our body.
The brain
Pychophomics
The study of relationships between physical characteristics of stimuli, such as their intensity and our psychological experiences of them.
unconditioned stimulus
a stimulus that leads to an automatic response