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Consciousness |
Awareness of ourselves and our environment |
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Cognitive neuroscience |
Study of brain activity linked with cognition, thinking, memory,and language |
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Dual processing |
Information simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks |
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Blindsight |
Condition in which a person can respond to a visual stimulus without consciously experiencing it |
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Parallel processing |
Processing of many aspects of a problem simultaneously. Brains natural mode of information processing for many functions |
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Selective attention |
Focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus |
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Inattentional blindness |
Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere |
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Change blindness |
Failing to notice changes in the environment |
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Sleep |
Periodic, natural loss if consciousness. |
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Circadian rythem |
Biological clock, regular body rythem |
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REM sleep |
Rapid eye movement. Recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur. |
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Alpha waves |
Relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state |
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Hallucinations |
False sensory experiences, such as seeing crazy **** |
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Delta waves |
Large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep |
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Suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) |
Pair of cluster cells that control circadian rythem. (Light....SCN adjusts melatonin production) |
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Insomnia |
Recurring problems in falling or staying asleep |
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Narcolepsy |
Uncontrollable sleep attacks |
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Sleep apnea |
Stop breathing while asleep |
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Night terrors |
Occur in REM-3 regular dreams in NREM- 1 |
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Manifest content |
Remembered story line of a dream (freud) |
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Latent content |
Underlying meaning of a dream (freud) |
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REM rebound |
Tendency for REM sleep to increase after sleep deprivation |
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Failure to see visible objects because our attention is occupied elsewhere |
Inattentional blindness |
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React to stimuli outside of our awareness?.....devote deliberate attention to stimuli? |
Unconscious/conscious |
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______blindness and change blindness are forms if selective attention |
Inattentional |
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during rem-1 most likely to see Sleep spindles Hallucinations Night terrors REM |
Hallucinations |
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Brain emits large delta waves during |
NREM-3 |
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As night progresses what happens to REM stage of sleep use |
It increases |
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Neural activation theory |
Brain trying to make sense of random neural activity |