AP Psych. Vocab. 41-62

The brain’s ability to change, especially during childhood, by reorganizing after damage or by building new pathways based on experience.

• corpus callosum

• consciousness

• plasticity

• selective attention

The large band of neural fibers connecting the two brain hemispheres and carrying messages between them.

• corpus callosum

• Consciousness

• selective attention

• Inattentional Blindness

Our awareness of ourselves and our environment

• Selective Attention

• Inattentional Blindness

• Consciousness

• Circadian Rhythm

Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere

• inattentional blindness

• selective attention

• circadium rhythm

• REM Sleep

the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus

• selective attention

• circadium rhythm

• inattentional blindness

• REM sleep

The biological Clock; regular body rhythms

• circadium rhythm

• inattentional blindness

• REM sleep

• insomnia

Rapid eye movement sleep, the recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur. Also known as paradoxical sleep, because the muscles are relaxed (except minor twitches) but other body systems are active.

• sleep apna

• narcolepsy

• insomnia

• REM sleep

Sleep Disorder. Recurring problems in falling or staying asleep

• sleep apnea

• narcolepsy

• REM sleep

• insomnia

A sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks. The sufferer may lapse into REM sleep, often at inopportune times.

• insomnia

• narcolepsy

• sleep apnea

• REM sleep

A sleep disorder characterized by temporary cessations of breathing during sleep and repeated momentary awakenings.

• sleep apnea

• insomnia

• REM sleep

• narcolepsy