Give an example of a schema
Multiple ways to answer
This is when stimuli remain constant and sensitivity decreases over time.
What is sensory adaptation?
James Vicary's popcorn study, where people were shown a very quick image telling them to buy popcorn is an example of what?
A subliminal message
This 24-hour biological cycle, controlled by the hypothalamus, regulates our sleep-wake patterns
The circadian cycle
The awareness of things that are both inside and outside ourselves.
What is consciousness?
The weakest amount of a stimulation one can sense.
What is the Absolute Threshold?
Pain sensation in a limb that has been amputated is called what?
Phantom Limb Pain
Processing which comes from your prior knowledge/expectations
What is Top-down processing?
This common sleep disorder involves a persistent difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep.
Insomnia
These are ideas that are not in your awareness now but can be recalled or remembered.
What is Preconscious?
the olfactory bulb allows you to do what?
smell
James Vicary's popcorn study, where people were shown a very quick image telling them to buy popcorn is an example of what?
A subliminal message
Missing a gorilla in a video because you're focused on counting basketball passes is called what
Inattentional Blindness
This sleep disorder involves a sudden cessation of breathing during sleep, often correlated with obesity
sleep apnea
This phenomenon, involving self-generated thoughts and images, helps us prepare for future events and solve problems.
day-dreaming
daily double! give the 5 basic tastes
Sweet, Salty, Sour, Bitter, Umami
This sense helps us keep our balance and know our body position.
What is vestibular?
Describe "Foveal Vision"
basically your area of "focus" where other things in your peripheral, your brain ignores details of
This class of drugs acts as agonists for endorphins, producing euphoria and pain relief; examples include heroin and morphine.
Opioids
This type of psychoactive drug, which includes caffeine and cocaine, speeds up the body's processes
stimulants
This type of processing comes from our senses.
What is bottom up processing?
Telepathy, Psychokinesis, Precognition, Retrocognition, Clairvoyance, etc,
The name of the CIA cold war program to try and use psychoactive substances, electroshock, and other means to brainwash or "mind control" people was called what
MK Ultra
Daily Double! Clenching or grinding your teeth while you sleep is called what
sleep bruxism
According to Freud, people have this state of mind which is not available to awareness under most circumstances.
What is Unconscious?