Ch 5 Variations In Consciousness Flashcards

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What do circadian rhythms responsible for?

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Modulating body temperature, heart rate, metabolism, and sleep

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What are suprachiramasmatic nuclei responsible for?

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Control of circadian rhythms

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What are the 5 stages of sleep?

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  1. First 2 ish mins. Falling feeling and hallucinations
  2. About 20 mins Feelings of relaxation
  3. Transition period
  4. Slow wave sleep Delta waves about 30 mins, sleepwalking, bed wetting
  5. REMOVE
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What are three reasons sleep is important?

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Restorative, ecological niche, and growth

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What are the 5 types of insomnia?

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Transient, learned, psychiatric, physiological, and subjective

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What is transient insomnia?

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Insomnia that lasts for a few days, due to anxiety

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What is learned insomnia?

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Being worried about falling asleep, become conditioned

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What is psychiatric insomnia?

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Pathological reasons like anxiety that cause Insomnia

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What is psysiologal insomnia?

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Things keeping you from sleeping like body pain

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What is subjective insomnia?

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Not thinking you get enough sleep, may be underlying psych disorders

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When do dreams happen?

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During rem sleep normally

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Why do we dream? Identify 4 reasons?

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Information processing, activation synthesis, problem solving, and wish fulfillment

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What is polysomnigraphy?

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Measuring brain waves while you sleep to look for insomnia and other sleep disturbances

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When does slow wave sleep happen? Before or after REM?

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Before

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What is rem sleep? Give 5 examples of characteristics

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Deep sleep, rapid eye movement, high frequency low amplitude brain waves, vivid dreaming

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During slow wave sleep, what types of EEG activation is prominent?

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Delta

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Does a child, infant, adult, or elderly person spend more time in REM sleep?

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An infant

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What would happen if your reticular activating system was broken?

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You would experience constant sleep

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18
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Amphetamines work by increasing the levels of what?

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Noeprinephrine and dopamine

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What are the 4 stages of EEG patterns (hint: normal waking, deep relaxation, light sleep, deep sleep)

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beta
alpha
theta
delta

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during slow wave sleep (stages 3 and 4) what are the type of brain waves present?

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delta

21
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What is William dement known for?

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studying sleep deprivation

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Why do we need REM and slow-wave sleep?

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firming of learning that takes place during the day (memory consolidation)

23
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what is a possible treatment for insomnia? (2 types of drugs)

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benzodiazephine sedatives, nonbenozo sedatives

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Why can sedatives for insomnia be a poor-long term solution?

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because of carryover effects, and they gradually become less effective

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What is REM sleep behaviour disorder marked by?

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troublesome dream enactments (punching in dreams)

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What did Rosalind Cartwright have to say about dreams?

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dreams provide an opportunity to work trhough everyday problems

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What did Hobson and McCarley say about dreams?

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Dreams are the byproduct of bursts of activity from the brain

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Explain the activation-synthesis model

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dreams are side effects of the neural activation that produces wide awake brain waves during REM

29
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what are the 4 effects that can be produced through hypnosis?

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anaesthesia
sensory distortions
disinhibition
posthypnotic amnesia

30
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What century did hypnosis start?

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18th

31
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What is the social cognitive approach of hypnosis?

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hypnosis is a normal state of consciousness

32
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What are the 6 principal categories of drugs and what are their main effects?

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Narcotics– relieve pain
Sedatives– decrease CNS activation and behaviour
Stimulants– increase CNS and behaviour activity
Hallucinogens- mental and emot function, distortion
Cannabis and Alcohol

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What is the mesolimbic dopamine pathway?

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the “reward” pathway that certain drugs may travel through, to create addiction

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When taking a test, what brain waves are present/

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beta

35
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in terms of jet lag, flying in which direction leads to the greatest difficulty?

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east

36
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during slow wave sleep, which pattern of EEG activation is prominent?

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Delta

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True or false, as someone is sleeping through the night, they spend more time in REM sleep and less time in NREM sleep

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true

38
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Is cocaine a stimulant or a depressant?

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stimulant

39
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is alcohol a stimulant or a depressant?

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depressant

40
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Are barbitchates sedatives or narcotics?

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sedatives

41
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What is the terror management theory?

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elf-esteem and faith shield people from anxiety around death

42
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what did Markus and Kitayama say about western culture?

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Western culture fosters an independent conception of self, where as asian culture foster an interdependent view of the self

43
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What is the MMPI?

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self-report inventory used to diagnose people on a scale of different mental issues

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What is the TAT test?

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tell stories about scenes. the themes in each story can be scored to give insight about someones personality

45
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are projective tests such as the TAT and Rorschach tests reliable and valid?

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somewhat

46
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If someone thinks they will do well on a test, according to Bandura, what describes the nature of his confidence?

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strong feelings of self-efficacy

47
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what approach to personality is the least deterministic?

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humanistic

48
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in the Nurture Assumption, Judith Harris presents evidence concerning the effects of family enviornment on children’s personalities. Is the effect small or large?

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small