Unmasking the Sleeping Brain

During which stage of sleep do sleep spindles and K-Complexes occur?

Which stage of sleep is characterized by slower brain waves with higher peaks and lower valleys?

Which stages of sleep are known as non-REM sleep?

During which stage of sleep do Delta Waves occur?

During which stage of sleep are dreams most vivid and easily remembered?

What percentage of adults' sleeping time is occupied by REM sleep?

What is the purpose of sleep from an evolutionary perspective?

Which part of the brain controls circadian rhythms?

Which machine is used to measure electrical activity in the brain during sleep?

What is the function of the suprachiasmatic nucleus?

What percentage of the world's population cannot be hypnotized?

During sleep, the brain produces electrical discharges with wavelike patterns that change in height and speed. What are these patterns called?

How many distinct stages of sleep do people progress through during the night?

What is the term used to describe the phase of pre-sleep consciousness?

What are vivid images experienced during the hypnagogic state called?

Which stage of sleep is characterized by relatively rapid, low-amplitude brain waves?

What is the purpose of stage 1 sleep?

Which stage of sleep makes up about half of the total sleep of those in their early twenties?

During which stage of sleep do images sometimes appear, as if viewing still photos?

What is the term used to describe a feeling of falling or uncontrolled muscle spasm during the hypnagogic state?

What percentage of the population is left in the grey area of possibility?

According to Ernest Hilgard, what evidence supports the idea that hypnosis is a different state of consciousness?

What is one practical use of hypnosis mentioned in the text?

What is the key to the procedure of meditation?

What do people often report feeling after meditation?

What are some biological changes that can occur as a result of long-term meditation practice?

What is meditation typically focused on?

What is the purpose of meditation in different religious traditions?

What does Ernest Hilgard argue about hypnosis?

What is one area where hypnosis has been used successfully?

What is the process that converts a sensory signal to an electrical signal, to be processed in a specialized area in the brain?

What is the sensory system concerned with the conscious perception of touch, pressure, pain, temperature, position, movement, and vibration?

Which part of the eye is responsible for detecting black, white, and gray in soft or low light conditions?

Which theory suggests that cones in the eye are organized into three classes: red/green, blue/yellow, and black/white?

What is the sense that lets us perceive the location, movement, and action of parts of the body?

What is the function of the occipital lobe in the brain?

What is the term used to describe our brain's interpretation of the signals sent from the sensory organs, and the attribution of meaning to them?

Which sense contributes to our ability to maintain balance and body posture?

Which stage of information processing requires attention?

What is the main factor that limits perception according to the Information Processing Model?

Which direction influences information processing according to the Information Processing Model?

What is required for perception to occur?

What is the difference between sensation and perception according to the Information Processing Model?

What draws our attention to salient items?

Which factor affects what we perceive according to the Information Processing Model?

What is the relationship between attention and perception?

What influences information processing from our senses according to the Information Processing Model?

Which type of memory is responsible for holding memories from your immediate past and dispatching them to the cortex?

Which brain region plays a role in the storage of emotional memories?

What is the deciding factor of whether sensory memory is transferred to short-term memory?

What is another name for working memory?

What does working memory process information used in?

Which type of memory receives information from both sensory memory and long-term memory?

What type of memory holds memories in long-term, permanent storage?

What is the capacity of sensory memory?

What part of the brain is heavily involved in working memory, which is an executive function connected to planning and attention?

What type of memory is responsible for holding our stored knowledge and immediate sensory experience?

Which type of memory is automatic and consists of unconscious skills that we have learned?

What is the term for our memory of facts, concepts, words, and knowledge about the world?

Which type of memory is our memory of specific events that we have experienced?

What is the process of turning sensory memory into working memory called?

What is the process of turning working memory into long-term memory called?

What is the term for the inability to remember information, typically due to physiological trauma?

Which type of amnesia refers to the loss of memory for events and experiences that happened before the amnesia-causing event?

Which type of amnesia refers to the loss of memory for events and experiences that occurred after the amnesia-causing event?

What is the term for the initial experience of perceiving and learning information?

What is the term for taking information from our prestored knowledge (long-term memory) and using it to complete complex tasks?

Which of the following is the correct definition of sensation?

What is the function of the occipital lobe in the brain?

Which of the following senses is NOT one of the five traditional senses?

Where are rods located in the retina?

Which theory explains how cones in the eye are organized into three classes?

What is the purpose of the somatosensory system?

What is the term used to describe the conversion of sensory signals to electrical signals in the brain?

What does the occipital lobe communicate with to interpret visual information?

According to the Information Processing Model, which stage requires attention in order for perception to occur?

What is the main factor that limits perception according to the Information Processing Model?

Which direction influences information processing according to the Information Processing Model?

What is the purpose of stage 1 sleep?

What is the function of the occipital lobe in the brain?

What is the relationship between attention and perception?

What draws our attention to salient items?

What is the process that converts a sensory signal to an electrical signal, to be processed in a specialized area in the brain?

What is the purpose of sleep from an evolutionary perspective?