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| What part of the brain links the forebrain with the hindbrain? |
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| What are the four parts of the hindbrain? |
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| Reticular Formation, Cerebellum, medulla, pons |
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| What part of the hindbrain controls finely coordinated movements? |
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| What part of the hindbrain controls breathing and heart rate? |
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| What part of the hindbrain controls sleep and links the brain to the spinal cord? |
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| A cut or purposeful destruction of a specific part of the brain to learn more about the brain and behavior: |
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| Name the railroad worker whose personality dramatically changed after he suffer damage to his frontal lobe? |
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| What machine records electrical activity in large portions of the brain and is used to study sleep? |
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| What brain imaging machine uses X-rays to produce an image of the brain's structure? |
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| What brain imaging machine shows how the brain functions? |
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| What brain imaging machine uses magnets to produce an image of the brain's structure? |
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| What brain imaging machine shows both the structure and function of the brain? |
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| Stage One sleep is characterized by what kind of brain waves? |
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| Stage Two sleep is characterized by what kind of brain waves |
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| Stage Four sleep is characterized by what kind of brain waves |
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| Stage one sleep is characterized by sudden jerks called what? |
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| Stage two sleep is characterized by what kind of EEG waveforms? |
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Sleep spindles
K complexes |
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| Deep sleep occurs during which sleep stage? |
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| Parasomnias occur during which sleep stage? |
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| REM sleep is also called what? |
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Active sleep
Paradoxical sleep |
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| This sleep disorder affects older men; they act out their dreams while asleep: |
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| The sleep disorder is characterized by the inability to fall asleep: |
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| This sleep disorder is characterized by suddenly falling asleep: |
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| This sleep disorder is characterized by difficulty breathing while asleep: |
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| What kind of psychoactive drugs decrease the activity of the CNS? |
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| What kind of psychoactive drugs increase the activity of the CNS? |
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| Alcohol and barbiturates are examples of what kind of psychoactive drugs? |
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| Nicotine, cocaine and caffeine are examples of what kind of psychoactive drug? |
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| Opium, heroin and morphine are all examples of which kind of psychoactive drug? |
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| Raw information from the sense: |
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| Raw sensation given meaning in the cerebral cortex: |
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| What is the conversion of a stimulus into a neural impulse called? |
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| The point at which a person becomes aware of a stimulus is called what? |
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| Minimum amount of a stimulus that can be detected 50% of the time: |
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| Detecting a stimulus in the presence of competing stimuli: |
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| Smallest noticeable increase/decrease in the intensity of a stimulus |
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| Just noticeable difference |
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| What theory states the bigger or stronger the stimulus, the bigger or stronger the change has to be in order for detection to occur? |
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| The ability to detect a stimulus: |
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| Decreasing responsiveness to an unchanging stimulus: |
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| This is the outer most part of the eye, it bends and focuses light waves into narrow beams |
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| This is the opening of the eye that allows light into the eye: |
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| The is the muscle which opens or closes the pupil, gives your eye color: |
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| The part of your eye bends and focuses light waves into narrow beams inside your eye: |
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| This part of your eye contains photoreceptors and performs transduction: |
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| The two kinds of photoreceptor cells found in the eye: |
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| What nerves carries impulses from the eye to the brain? |
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| What nerve carries auditory impulses from the ear to the brain? |
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| What nerve carries smell impulses from the nose to the brain? |
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| What term refers to the difference between the two images we sense? |
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| What term refers to the process of fusing two images into one? |
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| The eardrum is also called: |
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| What part of the ear performs auditory transduction? |
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| What kind of deafness is cause when the outer or middle ear cannot carry sound and can be helped with a hearing aid? |
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| What kind of deafness is cased by inner ear damage and may be helped with a cochlear implant? |
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| Kind of mental processing: occurs when we use our experience to form a perception from what we sense: |
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| Kind of mental processing: Occurs when we pull sensations together to form a whole, new perception: |
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| Visual perceptual constancy can occur in what three ways? |
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| Depth perception can be influenced by what two kinds of depth cues? |
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Monocular depth cue
Binocular Depth cues |
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