Consciousness
What is consciousness?
Our subjective awareness of ourselves and environment
What is sleep?
Periodic loss of consciousness
What are Dreams?
Images, emotions, and thoughts passing htrough a sleeping person's mind
What is the absolute threshold?
The minimum stimulus energy we can detect 50% of the time
Explain the Nature vs Nurture debate?
Which impacts you more, genes or environment?
How does conscious awareness help us make sense of our life?
Through sensations, emotions, and choices
What is the circadian rhythm?
Our biological clock; bodily rhythms that occur every 24 hours
How much of our lives do we sleep for?
1/3
What is the single detection theory trying to figure understand?
why people respond differently to the same stimuli
What is a genome?
instructions for making an organism
Which is faster, parallel processing or sequential processing?
Parallel Processing
How many sleep cycles dol we typically go through each night?
4-6
How does sleep impact cognitive development?
Dreams reflect our knowledge and understanding and simulates good and bad parts of our lives
What is weber's law
2 stimuli must differ by constant minimum percentege for us to detect difference
What are the three types of neurons
1. sensory
2. motor
3. interneurons
What is blindsight?
Being able to respond to something without seeing it
If we do not get enough REM sleep our body will add more time for REM sleep in the cycle the next few days following
What can lack of sleep effect?
Mood, focus, weight, overall health, immune system
What is sensory adaption?
If we experience constant stimulation we begin to ignore that stimulus
What does the central nervous system contrain?
Brain and spinal chord
Explain the two parts of dual processing
Parallel: unconscious thoughts (descriptors)
Sequential: conscious thought (what you are aware you are thinking)
What are the sleep stages and common distinct patterns that happen in that stage?
NREM 1: Light Sleep - hypnic Jerks
NREM 2: Sleep SPindles - wild brain activity
NREM 3: Deep Sleep - less vivid dreams
Rem: Rapid EYe Movement - paralyzed
What are 5 sleep diorders?
Insomnia, Narcolepsy, Sleep apnea, Somnambulism, and REM Sleep Behavior Disorder
What is kinesthesia
Movement and position of individual body parts
What does the peripheral nervous system contain?
connects cns to rest of body throughn nerves