Conciousness

Question 1

What are the regular body rhythms (for example, of temperature and wakefulness) that occur on a 24 hour cycle

Answer 1

Circadian

Question 2

What is a recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur?

Answer 2

REM Sleep

Question 3

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?

Answer 3

Blindsight

Question 4

What is the transition from wakefulness into sleep, characterized by slowing of breathing rate and of brain waves?

Answer 4

NREM-1- Sleep

Question 5

In what sleep stage do your eyes dart around in momentary bursts of activity behind closed eyelids?

Answer 5

REM Sleep

Question 6

If you talk on the phone while driving, what shifts back and forth between the road and it’s electronic competition?

Answer 6

Selective attention

Question 7

The name of what sleep stage stands for rapid eye movement sleep?

Answer 7

REM Sleep

Question 8

During what sleep stage do your genitals become aroused, regardless of whether you are having a dream with sexual content?

Answer 8

REM Sleep

Question 9

What type of drugs distort perceptions and evoke sensory images in the absence of sensory input?

Answer 9

Hallucinogens

Question 10

What is the principle that unconscious information processing occurs simultaneously on many parallel tracks with conscious activity?

Answer 10

Dual processing

Question 11

What is the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus?

Answer 11

Selective attention

Question 12

What type of drugs do people use to feel alert, lose weight, or boost mood or athletic performance?

Answer 12

Stimulants

Question 13

What is an awareness that allows us to assemble information from many sources as we reflect on our past and plan our future?

Answer 13

Consciousness

Question 14

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?

Answer 14

Night Terrors

Question 15

What has been theorized to serve the function of helping us recuperate from the west and tear of waking life?

Answer 15

Sleep

Question 16

What are undesirable side effects that occur when abruptly stopping the use of an addictive drug?

Answer 16

Withdrawal

Question 17

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?

Answer 17

Tolerance

Question 18

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?

Answer 18

NREM-1-Sleep

Question 19

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?

Answer 19

Change blindness

Question 20

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?

Answer 20

Selective attention

Question 21

What condition would someone have if they could correctly guess the colour or orientation of an object that they cannot consciously see?

Answer 21

Blindsight

Question 22

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?

Answer 22

NREM-1 Sleep

Question 23

What is our awareness of ourselves and our environment?

Answer 23

Consciousness

Question 24

What is an idea of recent cognitive neuroscience that much of our brain work occurs off stage, out of sight?

Answer 24

Dual processing

Question 25

What has been theorized to serve the function of supporting our growth via the release of growth hormone?

Answer 25

Sleep

Question 26

What is a pleasure-seeking behaviour that has become compulsive and dysfunctional?

Answer 26

Addiction

Question 27

What type of drugs include caffeine, nicotine, and the more powerful amphetamine, cocaine, ecstasy, and methamphetamine?

Answer 27

Stimulants

Question 28

What type of drugs displayed the pupils, increase heart and breathing rates, raise blood sugar levels, and cause a drop in appetite?

Answer 28

Stimulants

Question 29

What has been theorized to serve the function of protecting us by keeping us out of harms way at night?

Answer 29

Sleep

Question 30

What is a periodic, natural, reversible loss of consciousness - as distinct from unconsciousness resulting from a coma, general anesthesia, or hibernation?

Answer 30

Sleep

Question 31

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?

Answer 31

Blindsight

Question 32

What type of drugs include LSD and, to a lesser degree, marijuana

Answer 32

Hallucinogen

Question 33

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?

Answer 33

Sleepwalking

Question 34

What has various states, including sleeping, waking, and other altered states?

Answer 34

Consciousness

Question 35

What type of drugs include alcohol, barbiturates, and opiates?

Answer 35

Depressants

Question 36

At the end of what sleep stage do children wet the bed?

Answer 36

NREM-3-Sleep

Question 37

What type of drugs reduce neural activity and slow body functions?

Answer 37

Depressants

Question 38

What focuses our attention when we learn a complex concept or behaviour ?

Answer 38

Consciousness

Question 39

What is a compulsive drug craving and use, despite adverse consequences?

Answer 39

Addiction

Question 40

What has been theorized to serve the function of feeding our creative thinking?

Answer 40

Sleep