the power of retaining and recalling past experience
What is Memory
100
chemical messengers that traverse the synaptic gaps between neurons
What is Neurotransmitters
100
an awareness of ourselves and our environments
What is Consciousness
100
Just below awareness, some information is accesable.
What is Subconscious Level
200
people associated with Developmental Theory
What is Freud, Erickson
200
the process of getting information out of memory storage
What is Retrival Memory
200
brain and spinal cord
What is Central Nervous System
200
Periodic, natural, reversible loss of consciousness
What is Sleep
200
Sleep protects, sleep helps us recover, sleep helps us remember, sleep helps us grow
What is Sleep Theories
300
prenatal organism from 8th week after conception to birth
What is Fetus
300
defense mechanism in which unwanted feelings are directed towards a different object
What is Displacement
300
neurons that carry outgoing information from the central nervous system to the muscles and glands
What is Motor Neurons
300
false sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus
What is Hallucinations
300
Drifting to sleep, theta waves & alpha waves, eye rolls to the back, hypnic jerk
What is Stage 1 Sleep
400
process by which new ideas and experiences are absorbed and incorporated into existing mental structures and behaviors
What is Assimilation
400
The most unreliable evidence in a criminal case, people that witness an event first hand.
What is Eye Witness Accounts
400
a simple, automatic, inborn response to a sensory stimulus, such as the knee-jerk response
What is reflex
400
the large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep
What is Delta Waves
400
A sleep disorder characterized by temporary cessations of breathing during sleep and repeated momentary awakenings
What is Sleep Apnea
500
the mass of tissue that is attached to the wall of the uterus and connected to the developing fetus by the umbilical cord, supplies nutrients, eliminates waste products
What is Placenta
500
the false recollection of episodic memory, filling in gaps.
What is Cause Cofabulation
500
a technique that uses magnetic fields and radio waves to produce computer-generated images that distinguish among different types of soft tissue; allows us to see structures within the brain
What is MRI
500
a sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks. The sufferer may lapse directly into REM sleep, often at inopportune times
What is Narcolepsy
500
dreams are a product of activity from the pons and brainstem. cerebral cortex attempts to make sense of neural firings by creating a story (dreams have no meaning)