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32 Cards in this Set
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our awareness of ourselves and our environment
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consciousness
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our inability to consciously process all the sensory info available to us at any single moment
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selective attention
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circadian rhythm
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pattern of biological functioning that occurs on 24hr cycle
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human sleep cycle repeats itself about every
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90 min
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REM sleep is called paradoxical sleep because
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our nervous system is highly active while our voluntary muscles hardly move
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REM sleep
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is reduced by alcohol and reduced by sleeping pills
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narcolepsy is a disorder in which a person
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experiences uncontrollable attacks of overwhelming sleepiness
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person repeatedly stop breathing while sleeping
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sleep apnea
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children are more likely to experience
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night terrors and sleep walking
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laten content of a dream refers to its
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underlying but Censored meaning
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Dreaming is NOT an attempt to escape from social stimulation
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not
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detection and encoding of stimulus energies by the nervous system called
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sensation
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perception is process by which
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sensory input is organized and interpreted
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minimum stimulation a person needs to detect a stimulus 50 percent of the time is called
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absolute threshold
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sensory adaptation refers to reduced
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sensitivity to an unchanging stimulus
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amount of light entering the eye is regulated by the
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iris
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cells for visual processing are located closest to the back of the retina
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rods and cones
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blind spot is located in the area of the retina
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where the optic nerve leaves the eye
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receptor cells are best at detecting fine details and color
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cones
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rods are
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more light sensitive and less color sensitive than are cones
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simultaneously processing different aspects of a problem or scene is known as
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parallel processing
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sound wave vibrations are transmitted by three tiny bones located in the middle ear
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middle ear
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on the way to the temporal lobe's auditory cortext
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thalamus
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rock musician loses
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hair cells
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sense of touch
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pressure pain warmth and cold
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taste
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bitter sweet sour and salty
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receptor cells for our sense of
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taste
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olfactory receptors
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quickly alert you to gas leaks
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our sense of position and movement
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kinesthesis
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receptor cells for kinethesis are located in the
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muscles tendons and joints
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carmen jorge and gail
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proximity
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Kant
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emphasized perceptual understanding comes from sensory experience
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