PSY test chap 4 6 & 7

Four

How many stages are there to non-REM sleep?

Retina

The _____ is a thin layer of nerve tissue that lines the back of the eye

Fovea

The _____, a spit on the back of the retina, contains the highest concentration of cones in the retina.

selective attention

The ability to focus awareness on specific features in the environment while ignoring others is termed as:

Melatonin

Which hormone plays a role in relaxation and drowsiness in human beings?

Meditation

Which of the following is a form of mental training that can be used to calm the mind, stabilize concentration, or enhance awareness of the The present moment?

Sustainted attention

Which of the following is an attentional process that helps determine the contents of consciousness at any given moment in time?

inattentional blindness

Which of the following refers to a phenomenon by which one fails to notice unexpected objects in her or his surroundings?

The cornea

Which part of the eye is responsible for bending the light rays so that light can be focused on the retina?

Freud

Whoch psychologist couned the term preconscious?

Sleep changes throughout the night

With EEG technology, scientists were able to learn that:

Rods

_____ are photoreceptors in the retina that play a key role in night vision, as they are most responsive to dark and light contrast.

Cones

_____ are photoreceptors that are responsible for color vision and are most functional in conditions of bright light.

Vegetative

In which state a person be wakeful but not very aware?

Awarness

Monitoring of the information from the environment and from one's own thoughts is termed as:

The cocktail party effect

Nina is attending a get together where she has to struggle to listen to a conversation with her colleague due to a lot of background noise. However, her ears prick up as soon as she hears her name being mentioned by someone in another part of the room and consequently, she looses the thread of conversation with her colleague. Which of the following terms best describe the experience Nina has?

Minimally conscious

People show signs of intentional behavior when they are:

circadian rhythm

Rai is an employed youth who has been recently moved to a night shift. Of late, he has been complaining of disturbed sleep and poor concentration. He also feels fatigued and listless more often . A change in ______ is most likely to have caused Raj's problems.

Iris

The colored part of the eye, which is called the ______, adjust the pupil to control the amount of lighting entering the eye.

red, blue, green

The trichromatic theory of color vision states that all colors humans experience result from a miture of ?

cochlea

Vibrations on the oval window send movement through the fluid-filled cavity of the

rapid eye movement (REM) sleep

What does REM stand for?

Moderatley conscious

When a person is roused by sounds that seem important while filtering out the rest that seem run-of-the-mill, he/she is in an) ______ state.