Exam 6: Consciousness and Cognition

A circadian cycle is about _________ hours long.

The divergent thinking technique of writing down everything that comes to mind about a topic without revising or proofreading until all of the information is recorded and then organizing it later is known as ___________.

The sounds of "t," "th," and "sh" are __________.

If you have been waking up too early for several weeks,you are probably suffering from ____________.

In a heuristic called __________,a person determines the difference between the current situation and the goal and then tries to reduce that difference by various methods.

The basic sound units of any language are called __________.

What used to be called "the gentle tyrant"?

Which is the most likely prototype for the concept of "vehicle"?

A sleep disorder characterized by difficulty in falling asleep or remaining asleep throughout the night is called sleep apnea.

Short,rhythmic bursts of brainwave activity that appear during stage 2 sleep are called __________.

Compared to the formal concepts learned in science and math,natural concepts tend to be ____________.

A famous lecturer argues that because the Hopi Indians have only two nouns for things that fly,one for birds and another for nonbirds,the Hopi MUST interpret all flying things in terms of these two nouns.This argument is based on _________.

What aspect of circadian rhythms might explain why we tend to feel so tired at night?

It would take the same amount of time to correctly identify an olive as a fruit as it would to correctly identify an apple as a fruit.

Your brain waves are being monitored in a sleep laboratory.If you are in deep sleep less than an hour after falling asleep,what brain waves will be detected?

Language is based on basic sound units called __________.

A sleep disorder characterized by difficulty in falling asleep or remaining asleep throughout the night is _________.

Melatonin is to __________ as an aspirin is to ___________.

The basic meaningful units of any language are called __________.

A seemingly arbitrary flash "out of the blue," through which the solution to a problem suddenly becomes apparent to you,but you do not consciously know how you "figured it out," is called ________.