Conciousness Flashcards
What are the regular body rhythms (for example, of temperature and wakefulness) that occur on a 24 hour cycle
Circadian
What is a recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur?
REM Sleep
What condition would someone have if, after suffering brain damage, they were unable to recognize and discriminate objects visually, but would act as if they could see?
Blindsight
What is the transition from wakefulness into sleep, characterized by slowing of breathing rate and of brain waves?
NREM-1- Sleep
In what sleep stage do your eyes dart around in momentary bursts of activity behind closed eyelids?
REM Sleep
If you talk on the phone while driving, what shifts back and forth between the road and it’s electronic competition?
Selective attention
The name of what sleep stage stands for rapid eye movement sleep?
REM Sleep
During what sleep stage do your genitals become aroused, regardless of whether you are having a dream with sexual content?
REM Sleep
What type of drugs distort perceptions and evoke sensory images in the absence of sensory input?
Hallucinogens
What is the principle that unconscious information processing occurs simultaneously on many parallel tracks with conscious activity?
Dual processing
What is the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus?
Selective attention
What type of drugs do people use to feel alert, lose weight, or boost mood or athletic performance?
Stimulants
What is an awareness that allows us to assemble information from many sources as we reflect on our past and plan our future?
Consciousness
With what sleep disorder do it’s sufferers seldom wake up fully during an episode and recall little or nothing the next morning- at most, a fleeting, or frightening image?
Night Terrors
What has been theorized to serve the function of helping us recuperate from the west and tear of waking life?
Sleep
What are undesirable side effects that occur when abruptly stopping the use of an addictive drug?
Withdrawal
What is the need for a drug user to take larger doses of the drug over time in order to continue experiencing the drugs effect?
Tolerance
During what stage of sleep could you fail to detect sensory stimuli but when asked about it afterwards also be unaware that you were even asleep?
NREM-1-Sleep
What occurred when people, focused on giving directions to a construction worker, failed to notice when he was replaced by another worker during a staged interruption?
Change blindness
What consciously processes only about 40 bits of information per second from the 11,000,000 bits per second that your five seconds take in?
Selective attention
What condition would someone have if they could correctly guess the colour or orientation of an object that they cannot consciously see?
Blindsight
What is a brief sleep stage that occurs shortly after getting into bed, in which you may experience fantastic images resembling hallucinations, known as hypnagogic sensations?
NREM-1 Sleep
What is our awareness of ourselves and our environment?
Consciousness
What is an idea of recent cognitive neuroscience that much of our brain work occurs off stage, out of sight?
Dual processing
What has been theorized to serve the function of supporting our growth via the release of growth hormone?
Sleep
What is a pleasure-seeking behaviour that has become compulsive and dysfunctional?
Addiction
What type of drugs include caffeine, nicotine, and the more powerful amphetamine, cocaine, ecstasy, and methamphetamine?
Stimulants
What type of drugs displayed the pupils, increase heart and breathing rates, raise blood sugar levels, and cause a drop in appetite?
Stimulants
What has been theorized to serve the function of protecting us by keeping us out of harms way at night?
Sleep
What is a periodic, natural, reversible loss of consciousness - as distinct from unconsciousness resulting from a coma, general anesthesia, or hibernation?
Sleep
What condition would someone have if they were unable to report width of a block in front of them but could grasp it with just the right finger-thumb distance?
Blindsight
What type of drugs include LSD and, to a lesser degree, marijuana
Hallucinogen
What is a sleep disorder that occurs during NREM-3 sleep and is characterized by getting up out of bed and walking around but with no recollection of having done so upon awakening?
Sleepwalking
What has various states, including sleeping, waking, and other altered states?
Consciousness
What type of drugs include alcohol, barbiturates, and opiates?
Depressants
At the end of what sleep stage do children wet the bed?
NREM-3-Sleep
What type of drugs reduce neural activity and slow body functions?
Depressants
What focuses our attention when we learn a complex concept or behaviour ?
Consciousness
What is a compulsive drug craving and use, despite adverse consequences?
Addiction
What has been theorized to serve the function of feeding our creative thinking?
Sleep
