Sleeping
What stage in the sleep cycle do hallucinations occur?
Stage 1
Iconic memories are produced by what stimuli?
Visual
What is the #1 killer in Africa?
AIDS
What do the rods do?
Help detect, black, white, and grey; along with peripheral vision.
Bottom-up processing is similar to?
Sensation
The circadian rhythm operates on a _____ hour cycle.
24
What is amnesia?
The loss of memory.
T Lymphocytes form in the ____.
Thymus
What is not apart of the opponent process theory?
red-green
black-white
blue-yellow
blue-red
Blue-red
The minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus is?
Absolute threshold
What is the underlying meaning of a dream?
Latent content
What are the three stages of processing memory in order?
Encoding, storage, and retrieval
Who is more likely to suffer from heart disease, Type A or Type B people?
Type A
A color staying the same even if there is changing illumination is an example of?
Color constancy
What is Weber’s law?
Two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum percentage
What stage do night terrors occur?
Stage 4
A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event is?
A flashbulb memory
Name the three phases of general adaptation syndrome?
Alarm, Resistance, and exhaustion
The point at which the optic nerve leaves the eye is?
Blind Spot
Hearing a ringing sound and then i disappears is an example of?
Sensory adaptation
A dream is?
A sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping persons mind.
The hippocampus helps process ___ memories.
Explicit
What is a “mind body” illness?
Psychophysiological illness
what is the order that light goes through the eye?
cornea, pupil, lens, retina
The signal detection theory predicts?
How and when we detect the presence of a stimulus.