Consciousness & Body Rhythms

Awareness of ourself and our environment is:

• unconscious
• consciousness
• preconscious
• existence

What is an assertion that appears scientific, but is not?

• pseudoscientific claim
• hypnosis
• science
• superstition

What is NOT one of the three types of periodic physiological fluctuations (body rhythms)?

• circadian
• ultradian
• infradian
• turadian

What is a biological rhythm that occurs once every 24 hours?

• circadian
• ultradian
• infradian

What is a biological rhythm that occurs once a month or season?

• circadian
• ultradian
• infradian

What is a biological rhythm that occurs more than once each day?

• circadian
• ultradian
• infradian

Once you’re asleep certain parts of the brain’s cortex: 

• send more signals to other parts of your brain
• start doing completely different tasks than they do during the day
• continue to function just as they normally do when you are awake
• stop sending signals that would normally keep us awake