Science Practices
Also known as the "I knew it all along" phenomenon, this is a bias that affects how people perceive past events.
What is hindsight bias?
When a fire alarm suddenly awakes you in the middle of the night, this part of the brain is activated.
The Reticular Activation System (RAS).
The sympathetic nervous system
This is one typical disruption to a person's normal sleep schedule.
Jet lag OR shift work
This type of data is usually found in interviews, notes from observations, and visual representation of social interactions.
What is Qualitative Data?
Damage to this area of the brain may affect a person's balance, posture, and eye movement.
What is the cerebellum?
This neurotransmitter is responsible for promoting relaxation and reducing anxiety.
What is GABA?
This is the sleep-wake cycle that repeats approximately every 24 hours.
What is the circadian rhythm?
On critical aspect of a hypothesis that states that they must be capable of being proven wrong through experimentation.
What is falsifiability?
Found in the left hemisphere, this area is responsible for speech production, motor control, and language processing
What is Broca's Area?
This is the phrase for the level of stimulation required to trigger an action potential.
What is threshold?
When in this stage of sleep, you may experience vivid dreams.
What is REM Sleep?
This common phenomenon refers to individuals responding to an interview or survey in a way that they believe is socially acceptable.
What is social desirability bias?
This non-invasive neuroimaging technique records electrical activity of the brain.
What is EEG?
This autoimmune disease affects the myelin sheath in the CNS.
What is multiple sclerosis?
Also known as night terrors, people with this sleep disorder thrash, scream, and can pose a threat to themselves or others.
REM Sleep Behavior Disorder
This is the variable that the researcher deliberately manipulates or changes in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
This is the main communication pathway between the two hemispheres of the brain.
What is corpus callosum?
This is the primary excitatory neurotransmitter playing a key role in learning, memory, and neural plasticity.
What is glutamate?
This dream theory accounts for the random neural activity in the brainstem.
What is activation-synthesis theory?