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A condition in which people who are blind have some spared capacities in the absence of any visual awareness.
ex. the amygdala can be activated when seeing emotional faces even though a person can't see it. |
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| Activation- Synthesis hypothesis |
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| A theory of dreaming that proposes that neural stimulation from the Pons activates mechanisms that normally interpret visual imput |
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| The regulation of biological cycles into regular patterns |
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| The subjective experience of the world and of mental activity |
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| The product of an altered state of conscious in which images and fantasies are confused with reality |
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| A social interaction during which a person, responding to suggestions, experiences changes in memory, perception, and or voluntary action |
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| A disorder characterized by the inability to sleep |
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| A left hemisphere process that attempts to make sense of events |
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| What a dream symbolizes, or the material that disguised in a dream to protect the dreamer |
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| A mental procedure that focuses attention on an external object or on a sense of awareness |
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| Brief, unintended sleep episodes, ranging from a few seconds to a minute, caused by chronic sleep deprivation |
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| A sleep disorder in which people fall asleep during normal waking hours |
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| The stage of sleep marked by rapid eye movements, dreaming, and paralysis of motor senses |
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| A disorder in which a person stops breathing while asleep |
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| A condition in which the corpus callosum is surgically cut and the two hemispheres of the brain do not receive information directly from each toher |
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| Information processed without conscious awarness |
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