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.