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20 Cards in this Set
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Consciousness |
Awareness of ourselves and our environment |
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Cognitive neuroscience |
study of the brain, brain activity and mental actions |
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Dual processing |
information is often simultaneously processed on conscious and unconscious |
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Blindsight |
a condition in which a person can respond to a visual stimulus without consciously experiencing it |
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Selective attention |
Focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus |
Doing one thing, ex. Texting and driving(your focused on texting) |
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Inattentional blindness |
Unable to see objects when our attention is directed elsewhere |
Objects in our peripheral vision are not seen when our attention is else where. |
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Change blindness |
Failing to notice changes in the environment |
Things changing in our peripheral |
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Circadian rhythm |
The biological clock |
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REM sleep |
Rapid eye movement, deep sleep with vivid dreams |
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Alpha waves |
Slow brain waves of relax and awake state |
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sleep |
Loss of consciousness |
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Hallucinations |
False sensory experiences |
Seeing something in the absence of external visual stimulus |
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Delta waves |
Large, slow brain waves during deep sleep |
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Insomnia |
Can't fall asleep or staying asleep |
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narcolepsy |
Sleep disorders, uncontrollable sleep attacks. |
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Sleep apnea |
Sleep disorder, stop breathing during sleep |
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Night terrors |
Sleep disorder , high arousal of being terrorized |
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Dreams |
Sequence of images |
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manifest content |
The remembered storyline of a dream |
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Latent content |
Meaning of a dream |
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