Ch 3: Consciousness and the Two-Track Mind

Question 1

Consciousness

Answer 1

• Waking state
• You are aware of your environment

Question 2

Daydreadming and Fantasies

Singer

Answer 2

• (1975)
• Everyone ahs daydreams
  
  • anywhere and anytime
• Younger people have less daydreams
• 95% both Male and Females have sexual fantasies
  
  • more Men than Women
  • do not indicate sexual problems or problems with a mate

Question 3

Fantacy Prone Personality

Answer 3

• 4% of the population
• in a fantacy or daydream 1/2 of the day
• bad
• reduces productivity

Question 4

DayDreams

Answer 4

• Adaptive - help prepare for future
• help prepare for
  
  1. New Experiences - give ideas on what to do in a certain situation
  2. Creativity - expand the mind
     
     1. scientists, writers, artists

Question 5

Circiadian Cycle

Answer 5

• 2hr cycle
• follows day/night
• body temperature
• Body temperature goes up, peaks mid day, dips in the afternoon and drops at night

Question 6

Sleep Cycle

Answer 6

• 90 minute cycle

5 Stages of Sleep

• Prestage - not real stage
  
  • move from beta to alpha waves

1. Stage 1 - very light
   
   1. can wake up easily
   2. 5 min
   3. alpha to theta waves
   4. have hallucinations of last things you just said/smelt/heard
   5. (hypnotic sleep)
2. Stage 2 - theta waves with sleep spindles
   
   1. 20 min
3. Stage 3 - 20 min
   
   1. move from theta to delta waves
4. Stage 4 - 30 min
   
   1. deep sleep, chemicals restored
   2. hard to wake
   3. 100% Delta waves
   4. night terrors, sleep walking, bed wetting
5. REM Sleep - beta waves - awake waves
   
   1. dreaming
   2. heart rate and breathing increase
   3. organizing memories from day before
   4. paralyze muscles - paradoxical sleep

Question 7

Seasonal Affective Disorder

(S.A.D.)

Answer 7

• Circiadian Cycle is out of sync
• lack of sunlight when you wake up - lack of energy
• light therapy - a light that puts out the same rays as sun
  
  • tricks body into thinking the sun is up

Question 8

tdenosine

Answer 8

• produced in the day, wears off at night
• blocked by caffine

Question 9

Sleep Spindle

Answer 9

• Occurs in 2nd stage of sleep
• helps you wake up if you need to, if you don’t then you go into a deeper sleep

Question 10

Information Processing

Answer 10

At night, brain processes and saves info from the day before

Question 11

Freudian View

Answer 11

• Dreams are like a safty value - you can’t do something during the day, so you do it in a dream
• 2 parts

1. manifest content - actual dream
2. latent content - hidden meanings in dreams

Question 12

Activation Synthesis Theory

Answer 12

fires unused neurons to keep them active and in use

Question 13

R.E.M. Rebound

Answer 13

Not getting enough sleep so you go straight into REM Sleep

Question 14

Lucid Dream

Answer 14

The ability to be active in your dream

Question 15

Insomnia

Answer 15

can’t fall asleep

Question 16

Narcolepsy

Answer 16

Can go to sleep at any time

lacking a chemical

Question 17

Sleep Apnea

Answer 17

soft tissue in throat swells - snote - stop breathing

Question 18

Sleep Debt

Answer 18

go a long time without sleep or little sleep = takes 2 weeks to recover

Question 19

Divided Consciousness Theory

Answer 19

Ernest Hilgard

Don’t feel pain when under hypnosis because consciousness is divided