Biological
What types of systems is the Nervous System made up of?
The Central Nervous System (CNS)
The Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
Yes it does. Sensation uses sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell, to detect and respond to external stimuli.
What is perception?
The process of interpreting sensory information.
What is Consciousness?
A state of mind
What are the 5 senses that the body goes through when conscious?
Vision
Hearing
Touch
Taste and smells
Pain
What are the two systems within the peripheral system?
Somatic and Automatic
What is sensation?
A type of feeling, used by our senses
If you raed tihs snetncee, what types of processes is used for your brain to understand what is being read?
Bottom-up processing and top-down processing.
Do people have different circadian rhythms? Examples?
Yes they do.
Examples, morning people, night people.
True or false: When we sleep it is a mix of N-REM and REM sleep.
True
What does the brainstem contain
Medulla, midbrain, and pons
What is stimulus?
Anything that can bring a reaction from our sensory systems.
Bottom-up processing helps the brain bring sensations of letter shapes to the brain.
What is REM sleep?
A sleep stage where your brain is highly active, and dreams occur.
True or false: Sleep terrors and nightmares are the same thing
False. There are a few differences
Sleep terrors are episodes of intense fear and physical activity (like screaming or thrashing) while still partially asleep.
Nightmares are more intense dreams.
What are the three types of neurons?
Sensory, Interneurons, Motor.
What is transduction?
The translation of turning sensory information into neural signals which are then sent to the brain.
In perception, there is sensory adaption. What is Sensory adaption.
The tendency to pay less attention to a non-changing source of stimulation.
What is restless leg disorder?
A condition where you feel an uncontrollable urge to move your legs.
True or false: Information highways transmits information between the brain and the body through large bundles of fibres
True.
In the peripheral system, there are two other systems within. Somatic and automatic. What do these system do?
Somatic: Helps you to feel and respond to things such as touch and pain.
Automatic: Controls automatic involuntary functions in your body such as your heart beating.
How do sensory organs detect external and internal stimuli?
Sensory organs detect external and internal stimuli through senses like light, sound, and touch, or signals like pain and hunger.
What is selective attention?
Ability to focus on one specific task or piece of information while ignoring other distractions around you.
what are the 4 stages of the N-REM sleep?
Stage 1: sleeping for a short amount of time
Stage 2: Ignore familiar sounds, wake up to unexpected ones.
Stage 3: Similar to stage 4, less delta waveform.
Stage 4: wake up unexpectedly, very disoriented.
True or false: Major glands in the endocrine system include the pituitary, spleen, adrenal glands, and gallbladder.
False.
In the endocrine system, major glands can include the pituitary, thyroid, adrenal glands, and pancreas.