Sleep
How much of our lives do we spend sleeping?
The combination of a person's subjective experience of the external world and the person's mental activity (this combination results from brain activity).
Consciousness
Executive control, planning, decision making, consequences, moral decisions, and primary motor cortex (*Phineas Gage*)
Frontal Lobe
The brain is composed of independent cells and information is transmitted from cell to cell across tiny gaps called synapses.
Neuron Doctrine
The scientific study investigation of mental processes and behaviors.
Psychology
Physiological fluctuations that occur on approximately a 24-hour cycle.
Circadian Rhythms
Consciousness is a product of activity in specific brain regions. The key of this is that no single area of the brain is responsible for general awareness.
Global Workspace Model
Higher level visual processing (ex: recognizing grandma), hearing, and language comprehension.
Temporal Lobe
Cells that power electrical impulses to communicate with other neurons through chemical signals.
Neurons
Focuses on observable behaviors that can be measured objectively.
Behaviorism
Defined as the number of wave cycles per second (Hertz: Hz) (Beta > Alpha)
Frequency.
A state of consciousness that reflects a clear awareness of the external world and inner mental activity.
Normal Waking State of Consciousness
Processes tactile information and pain.
Parietal Lobe
Branchlike extensions of the neuron that detect information from other neurons.
Dendrites
The variable that is manipulated by the experimenter (x-axis).
Independent variable
A measure of how much the signal changes from zero, or the height of the signal (power/energy) (alpha > alpha)
Amplitude
Increase both process and physical activity.
Stimulants
_____ is specialized in language. Split brain patients can report on an object presented in their right eye
Left Hemisphere.
Long, narrow outgrowth transmits electrical impulses.
Axon
The variable that is measured and is expected to change as a result of changes caused by the experimenter's manipulation of the independent variable (y-axis).
Dependent variable
Rapid eye movement, inactive body/active mind. (dream stage)
REM Sleep
Release from or reduction of inhibition results in excitation.
Disinhibition
_____ is specialized in spatial abilities. Split brain patients can not report on an object presented in their left visual field but could correctly choose the object with their left hand.
Right Hemisphere.
Chemical substances that carry signals from one neuron to another.
Neurotransmitters
A systematic procedure of observing and measuring phenomena to answer questions.
Scientific Method