11 Flashcards
It refers to your individual awareness of your unique thoughts, memories, feelings, sensations and environment. Your _____experiences are constantly shifting and changing.
Consciousness
3 main levels of Consciousness
What we are aware of in everyday life
clear focus on awareness of self and the environment
Conscious Mind –
3 main levels of Consciousness
Where we store things
partially remembered and some partially forgotten. Information that can be recalled on will.
Preconscious Mind/ sub conscious –
3 main levels of Consciousness
is a reservoir of feelings, thoughts, urges, and memories that outside of our conscious awareness.
largest and most domineering division of the mind, information is hard to recall
Unconscious Mind –
contains memories of the past experiences. An independent activity which the individual is NOT aware of but produce effects upon one’s thought and actions. It functions when the person is asleep or awake
The unconscious mind
A periodic, natural, reversible and near total loss of consciousness
Sleep
- The principle that information is simultaneously processed on separate conscious and non-conscious tracks
Dual processing
-The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus or group of stimuli
Your consciousness is like a spotlight on a busy stage, there are other things going on around you that your automatic sub-process or brain is covertly registering, but for those moments when you shine your spotlight, most of the other stimuli fly away
Selective attention
-The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus or group of stimuli
Your consciousness is like a spotlight on a busy stage, there are other things going on around you that your automatic sub-process or brain is covertly registering, but for those moments when you shine your spotlight, most of the other stimuli fly away
Selective attention
Two distinct categories of consciousness
Thoughts, feelings, and perceptions that occur when we are awake and alert
Waking consciousness
Two distinct categories of consciousness
It is a state of consciousness in which there is a redirection of attention, a different type of mental state.
is a temporary change in one’s normal mental state without being considered unconscious.
can be created intentionally, or they can happen by accident or due to illness.
Altered States of Consciousness
STAGES OF SLEEP
the stage between wakefulness and sleep, sometimes referred to as somnolence or drowsy sleep, in which the muscles are still quite active and the eyes roll around slowly and may open and close from time to time.
Stage 1/N-REM 1
STAGES OF SLEEP
- Is the first unequivocal stage of sleep, during which muscle activity decreases still further and conscious awareness of the outside world begins to fade completely. If any sounds are heard, the sleeper is not able to understand their content at this point.
Stage 2/N-REM 2
STAGES OF SLEEP
Is also known as deep or delta or slow-wave sleep (SWS), and during this period the sleeper is even less responsive to the outside environment, essentially cut off from the world and unaware of any sounds or other stimuli
occurs in longer periods during the first half of the night, particularly during the first two sleep cycles, and represents around 15%-20% of total adult sleep time.
Stage 3/N-REM 3
STAGES OF SLEEP
called paradoxical sleep
Brain waves similar to waking state, but person is deeply asleep and unable to move
Most dreaming takes place
Stage 4/REM
