Biological
A controversial and unethical movement aimed at improving the genetic composition of humans through selective breeding.
What is Eugenics?
The awareness of internal and external stimuli.
What is consciousness?
Fatigue caused by travel across different time zones, disrupting the circadian rhythm.
What is jet lag?
The transparent structure behind the pupil that changes shape to help focus images on the retina.
What is the lens?
Agreement by a minor or other parties not able to give legal consent to participate in the activity.
informed assent
The body’s communication network consisting of nerve cells.
What is the nervous system?
The body's natural 24-hour cycle, affecting sleep and wakefulness.
What is the circadian rhythm?
Not a Michael Stipe basketball stat but rather the tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation.
What is REM rebound?
The light-sensitive layer of tissue at the back of the eye.
What is the retina?
A statistical analysis that combines the results of multiple scientific studies.
Involved in emotion, motivation, and memory.
What is the limbic system?
The deepest and most restorative sleep stage; includes slow-wave sleep.
What is NREM 3?
The theory that dreams help to cement memories and learning.
What is consolidation theory?
Photoreceptors that detect black, white, and gray; necessary for peripheral and twilight vision.
What are rods?
Examines the relationship between two or more variables to determine association.
What are Correlational Studies?
The part of the brain that regulates body temperature, hunger, thirst, and other homeostatic systems.
What is the hypothalamus?
Feelings of falling or hearing strange noises as one falls asleep during NREM Stage 1.
What are hypnogogic sensations?
A theory suggesting dreams are caused by the brain's attempt to make sense of neural activity during sleep.
What is activation synthesis theory?
Images that occur when a visual sensation persists for a brief time even after the original stimulus is removed.
What are after images?
A psychometric scale commonly used in questionnaires, and is the most widely used scale in survey research
What is the Likert scale?
Thick band of nerve fibers that connects the two brain hemispheres. Attach me on that email.
What is the Corpus Callosum?
Sleepwalking, typically occurring during deep sleep.
What is somnambulism?
Drugs that cause perceptual distortions and heightened sensory experiences.
What are hallucinogens?
The theory that the retina contains three different color receptors—one most sensitive to red, one to green, one to blue—which, when stimulated in combination, can produce the perception of any color.
What is the Trichromatic Theory?
The extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to.
What is validity?