This field of psychology studied the mind through consciousness using introspection
What is Structuralism
100
According to this Psychologist, dream represent hidden desires, or wishes
Who is Freud
100
The most commonly reported sleep disorder
What is Insomnia
100
A system for communicating with others using signals that convey meaning and are combined according to the rules od grammar
What is language
100
The Austrian physician who inadvertently discovered hypnosis
Who is Frank Anton Mesmer
200
This process controls our awareness of specific stimuli to the exclusion of others
What is Selective Attention
200
During this type of dreaming, you are aware that you are in a dream and have conscious control over your dreams
What is Lucid Dreaming
200
Slow-wave activity exhibited during Stage 1 sleep.
What are Theta waves
200
The smallest unit of meaning in a language
What is Morpheme
200
A suggestion made by a hypnotist that is carried out sometime after the participant has left the hypnotic state.
What is Post-Hypnotic Suggestion
300
This is the term used to describe our ability to hear our name across a crowded room, despite the presence of noise.
What is the cocktail party phenomenon
300
The type of dream that evolutionary theory asserts might serve to prepare us for potential threats to survival
What is a nightmare
300
This is the stage of sleep when Dreams typically occur
What is REM sleep (or Stage 5)
300
The estimated emergence of spoken language
What is 1-3 million years ago
300
Failure to remember what occurred during hypnosis
What is Post-Hypnotic Amnesia
400
As highlighted by the "Dancing Bear" in the basketball video we watched in class, this phenomenon occurs when we are intently focused on one event and completely fail to see another.
What is Inattention Blindness
400
The term Freud used to describe the "story line" in a dream
What is Manifest Content
400
A disorder in which people appear to be awake and in an intensely fearful state.
What are Night Terrors
400
This part of the brain lies in the left frontal lobe and damage to this area results in difficulty with speech production
What is Broca's area
400
suggestions that the hypnotized individual will be unable to perform a normally voluntary action (i.e. not being able to raise your arms)
What are Challenge Suggestions
500
In this procedure the Corpus Calllosum is severed leaving the two hemispheres in the brain incapable of communication.
What is the Split Brain Procedure
500
The term Freud used to describe the "hidden meaning" in a dream
What is Latent Content
500
Rapid, rhythmic brain waves exhibited during Stage 2 sleep
What are sleep spindles
500
The number of words a one-year-old might have in their vocabulary
What is 10
500
suggestions that the hypnotized person is undergoing sensory or cognitive distortions (i.e. pain reduction or treating phobias)