This is where the transduction process occurs in the eye.
What is the retina?
100
The brain's interpretation of sensory information
What is perception?
100
Our level of awareness about ourselves and the environment
What is consciousness?
100
Stage of sleep in which the brain produces theta waves and sleep spindles are likely to occur
What is stage 2?
100
An altered state in which person is highly suggestible and may change behavior based on commands
What is hypnosis?
200
When exposed to a stimulus for a prolonged period of time, the brain stops perceiving the stimulus is a process known as this
What is sensory adaptation?
200
In this top of processing, we perceive by filling in the gaps from the sense by using existing background knowledge
What is top-down processing?
200
Psychologists who defined the levels of consciousness and was most interested in the influence of the unconscious mind
Who is Sigmund Freud?
200
Sometimes known as paradoxical sleep, this stage is when our brain waves are just as active when we are awake but the body is paralyzed
What is REM Sleep?
200
Category of psychoactive drugs that speed up the nervous system like caffeine, cocaine, and amphetamines
What is stimulants?
300
This is a snail-looking structure in the inner ear that transmits sound waves to the auditory nerve
What is the cochlea?
300
Type of deafness that occurs when hair cells in the cochlea have been damaged, usually by loud noise
What is nerve deafness
300
The activation of certain associations which predispose one's perception, memory, or response (Silk... milk)
What is priming?
300
The most common sleep disorder in which people have problems getting to sleep or staying asleep
What is insomnia?
300
A specific drug that acts as an agonist for endorphins and is highly addictive. Wilmington, NC has the highest percentage of addicts to this drug in the entire country!
What is heroin?
400
This theory of color vision suggests that colors come in opposites such as red-green, blue-yellow, and black-white
What is the Opponent-Process Theory?
400
Law describing the difference thresholds for different senses. The change needed is proportional to the original intensity of the stimulus
What is Weber's Law?
400
An accidental exposure of the unconscious mind. When you say one thing but mean "amother"
What is a Freudian Slip?
400
A rare sleep disorder in which suffers may fall asleep at unpredictable and inappropriate times
What is narcolepsy?
400
Category of drugs that causes changes in perceptions or reality including sensory hallucinations, loss of identity, and vivid fantasies
What is hallucinogens (or Psychedelics)?
500
A chemical sense which involves five different types of receptors in each papillae
What is the gustation (taste)?
500
Theory that investigates the effects of the distractions and inferences we perceive while experiencing the world
What is signal-detection theory?
500
Literally means "about a day," this refers to the biological rhythms that adjust to the 24-hour day/night cycle such as sleeping and eating.
What is circadian rhythm?
500
Theory about dreaming that suggests that dreams are nothing more than the brain's interpretations of what is happening physiologically during sleep
What is the activation-synthesis theory?
500
Theory of hypnosis that suggests hypnosis is an altered state because people are less aware of their environment.