(Module 6) Exploring Psychology Ninth Edition in Modules Flashcards

1639659357	Consciousness	Awareness of ourselves and our environment	0
1639659358	Dual Processing	The principle that information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks	1
1639659359	Selective attention	The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus	2
1639659360	Inattentional blindness	Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere	3
1639659361	Change blindness	Failing to notice changes in the environment	4
1639659362	Circadian rhythm	The biological clock; regular bodily rhythms that occur on a 24-hour cycle. (which is sync with body temperature)	5
1639659363	REM Sleep	Rapid eye movement sleep, a recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur. Also known as paradoxical sleep, because the muscles are relaxed (except for minor twitches) but other body systems are active.	6
1639659364	Alpha waves	the relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state	7
1639659365	Sleep	Periodic, natural loss of consciousness - as distinct from unconsciousness. Resulting from a coma, general anesthesia, or hibernation.	8
1639659366	Hallucinations	False sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus. (During stage 1 sleep)	9
1639659367	Delta waves	the large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep (Stage 4)	10
1639659368	Insomnia	recurring problems in falling or staying asleep	11
1639659369	Narcolepsy	A sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks. The sufferer may lapse directly into REM sleep, often at inopportune times.	12
1639659370	Sleep apnea	A sleep disorder characterized by temporary cessations of breathing during sleep and repeated momentary awakenings.	13
1639659371	Night terrors	A sleep disorder characterized by high arousal and an appearance of being terrified; unlike nightmares, night terrors occur during Stage 4 sleep, within two or three hours of falling asleep, and are seldom remembered	14
1639659372	Dream	A sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping person's mind. Dreams are notable for their hallucinatory imagery, discontinuities, and incongruities, and for the dreamer's delusional acceptance of the content and later difficulties remembering it.	15
1639659373	Manifest Content	According to Freud, the remembered story line of a dream (as distinct from its latent, or hidden, content).	16
1639659374	Latent Content	According to Freud, the underlying meaning of a dream (as distinct from its manifest content)	17
1639659375	REM Rebound	the tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation (created by repeated awakenings during REM sleep)	18
1639659376	We register and react to stimuli outside of our awareness by means of PARALLEL processing.	When we devote full conscious attention to stimuli, we use SERIAL processing	19
1639659377	During sleep we pass through a cycle of five stages, each with characteristics brain waves.	As the night progresses, the REM stage becomes progressively longer.	20
1639659378	In interpreting dreams, Freud was most interested in their Latent content, or hidden meaning.	The activation-sythesis theory suggests that dreams are the brain's attempt to make sense of the random neural activity.	21
1639659379	cognitive neuroscience	the interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition (including perception, thinking, memory, and language)	22
1639659380	blindsight	a condition in which a person can respond to a visual stimulus without consciously experiencing it.	23
1639659381	suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN)	a pair of cell clusters in the hypothalamus that responds to light-sensitive retinal proteins; causes penial gland to increase or decrease production of melatonin, thus modifying our feelings of sleeplessness	24