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Process through which the senses pick up visual, auditory, and other sensory stimuli and transmit them to the brain. |
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| Process by which sensory information is actively organized and interpreted by the brain |
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| effective when utilizing all of your senses |
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| the minimum amount of sensory stimulous that can be detected 50 percent of the time |
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| states that the JND is based on a percentage or porportion of stimulous change rather than a fixed amount of change |
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| process through which sensory receptors convert the sensory stimulationn into electrochemical neural empulses |
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| process in which sensory adaptors grow accustomed to constant, unchanging levels of stimuli over time |
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| controlled in parietal lobe of brain |
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| When are you most likely to drink Green Beer? |
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| Vision flipped by brain’s processing system |
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loudness of sound
measured in decimals |
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what enables you to destinguish the difference in instruments
the distictive qualitites of sound |
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| number of cycles completed by a sound wave in one second |
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| number of vibrations per second an instrument makes |
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| amplitude greater than 130 deciamals can |
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sour
sweet
salty
bitter
umami |
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| what is determined by these: determined by psychological factors, endorphins, and culture |
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- allows one to move around in seat without looking at the seat |
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| object closer to one appear moving faster than ones at a distance |
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| - Train moving, head appears to be moving as train is moving |
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| perception of motion tied to movements of real objects through space |
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psychologically constructed perceptions of motions in response to various kinds of stimuli |
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Staring at a light, the light appears to be moving but eyes are moving |
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| false perception or a misperception of an actual stimulous in the environment |
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appears larger at a distance due to tree for comparison
larger overhead than at the horizon |
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Grant, Lee, think of as generals, but what if they represent something else |
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| - MLK- pattern of Martin Luther King, 3, 6, 9, 12,_____? 15, add pattern of 3 to each number in pattern |
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| Cocktail party phenomenon |
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- hear your name, assume other meaningful info follows |
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| - selectively attending to certain stimuli |
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| - message below threshold of awareness |
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| everything of which we are aware at any given time |
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| regular fluctuation of certain bodily functions within a 24 hour period |
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a pair of tiny structures in the rain's hypothalamus that control the timing of circadian rhythms
your biological clock |
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helps you sleep.
secreted by the pineal gland from dusk until just before dawn |
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| can increase or decrease your need for sleep |
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| circadian theory of sleep |
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| based on the premise that sleep evolved to keep humans out of harm's way during the dark of night and possibly from becoming prey of some nocturnal predators |
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| takes approximately one week to restore circadian rhythm |
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most sleep occurs during this |
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| 80 percent of dreaming occurs in |
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body becomes paralyzed, important to consolidate info learned earlier |
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| have approximately 5 sleep cycles , each cycle lasts approximately 90 minutes |
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- lack of erection in males can be due to psychological problems when they wake up |
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| - can result in REM Rebound |
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| alcohol, cocaine, and LSD |
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| can increase their learning through stimulating the parietal lobe |
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| babies need lots of sleep to what |
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| increases production during REM sleep to allow dreams to be more memorable |
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| activation synthesis hypothesis |
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dreams are the brain's attempt o make sense of the random firing of brain cells during sleep.
people impose meaning on the random mental activity |
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sleepwalking
occurs during partial arousal from stage four sleep |
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partly asleep
waking behaviors and physiological states occuer un sleep |
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| do not try to awaken a child, often occurs for adults due to anxiety |
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| - tied often to being overweight |
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| is a form of meditation , clears mind, refocus one’s attention |
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not under control of therapist, control pain |
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| any substance that has powerful effects on the brain and alters consciousness, mood, perception, and/or thought |
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| psychoactive drug, alters mood |
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mimic endorphins, morphine, codeine |
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| -suppresses GABA production |
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nicotine- suppress appetite |
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| Ritalin, controls attention, concentration |
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- has a genetic component |
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| Holding the view that the ego is the center, object, and norm of all experience. |
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| compulsive pattern of drug use in which users develop a drug tolerance or coupled with unpleasant withdrawal symptoms when the drug is discountinues |
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| psychological drug dependence |
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greater than physical drug dependence
craving or irresistible urge for the drug's pleasureable effects |
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- increases cerebral blood flow |
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| - very powerful stimulant that has 80% addiction rate after first use |
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| Drinkers expectations of drinking alcohol can lead them to be |
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| - tranquilizers, sleeping pills |
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| same as opiates, codeine, morphine, |
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| - Marijuana decreases logical thinking, slows reaction time |
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| causes hallucinations, known as acid |
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- causes hallucinations, caused a man to cut his face, feed parts of his face to dog, impairs self- control |
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