Sensation & Perception
The sense that lets you touch your nose with your eyes closed.
Kinesthesis
Instrument that records brain waves during sleep.
EEG
Brain lobe damaged if you can’t see after head trauma.
Occipital lobe
Disorder marked by loud snoring and pauses in breathing.
Sleep Apnea
The name of the man who had a dramatic personality change after a piece of his brain was removed in a work accident.
Phineas Gage
Jimbo has only two types of cones. What condition does he have?
Color blindness
Jeff feels tired after flying to Spain because his ___ is disrupted.
Circadian Rhythm
Brain structure that relays most sensory information.
Thalamus
Staring at a red dot leads to a green afterimage. Theory? (not the effect - the theory that explains the effect)
Opponet process theory
The variable an experimenter manipulates.
Independent Variable
Law that explains why it’s harder to detect changes when weights are heavy.
Weber's Law
Dream theory: brain makes sense of random neural activity.
Activation-synthesis
Brain structure that controls balance and coordination.
Cerebellum
People with a very high density of taste buds are called ___.
Supertasters
Ethical principle requiring that participants be told enough to choose if they want to take part.
Informed Consent
In vision, where transduction takes place.
Retina
Paradoxical feature of REM sleep.
Loss of muscle tone despite active brain
Crystals in the semicircular canals cause this problem.
Dizziness / balance issues
Disorder involving sudden, uncontrollable sleep attacks.
Narcolepsy
Approach that focuses on free will, potential for growth, and self-actualization.
Humanistic Perspective
Theory of hearing where neurons fire in alternating bursts.
Volley Theory
Why IRBs may reject studies that wake participants every REM cycle.
Sleep disruption may cause harm
Sleep stage with fast breathing and high heart rate.
REM sleep
Hearing loss caused by damage to the auditory nerve or cochlea
Sensorineural Hearing Loss
The tendency to believe, after an outcome, that “I knew it all along.”
Hindsight Bias