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Chapter 3: Consciousness Flashcards

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consciousness

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Being aware of your surroundings and yourself

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Behaviorism

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Study of behavior and how it reflects psychology

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Neuroscience

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Study of the brain and how it functions biologically

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Hypnosis

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Process by which one sees suggestion to convince others that a behavior, feeling, or thought will occur

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Cognition

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Mental processes that are what makes/creates more intelligence through external senses and stimulation

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Levels of Consciousness

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Similar to the iceberg model, shows how we react to stimuli or not- consciousness, preconscious, unconscious, nonconscious

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Subconscious

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Part of consciousness that processes stimuli without us knowing and also containing our internal desires and/or ideas that we don’t know about

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Altered States of Consciousness

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States of being where we don’t fit the definition of consciousness, such as sleep, hypnosis, and drug using

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Biological Clock

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Our internal clock that controls our internal state (energies, hormones, etc.) AKA Circadian Rythms

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Annual Cycles

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Occurrences/cycles that repeat each year

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Seasonal Effective Disorder

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Depression/mood shifts in winter, mainly due to diet and lack of vitamin D

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28 Day Cycle

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A series of events that repeats after 28 days AKA the menstrual cycle

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Menstrual Cycle

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28 day cycle where a woman’s uterine lining and egg is released

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PMS

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Hormones that are released as a result of the ovaries releasing an egg

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24 hour cycle

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Circadian Rhythms, or events that repeat every 24 hours

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90 Minute Cycle

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Occurs during sleep (sleep pattern), length of REM

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Stages of Sleep

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NREM 1-3(4) and REM w/ different functions of each stage

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Circadian Rhythms

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Our internal clock that regulates our peaks and lows over a 25 hour cycle

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Jet Lag

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Sleepiness and discomfort as a result of being shifted into a different time zone while not having an adjusted circadian rhythm

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Pineal Gland

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Stimulated by suprachiasmatic nucleus to produce melatonin

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Melatonin

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Hormone that is released to induce sleep

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Neurotransmitter

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Chemical Messenger

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Suprachiasmatic Nucleus

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Part of the hypothalamus that controls sleep/pineal gland

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Sunday Night Insomnia

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When people can’t go to sleep on time on Sunday due to having stayed up late nearly all weekend

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Monday Morning Blues

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Feeling poor Monday Morning due to lack of proper sleep

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REM

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Rapid Eye Movement, paradoxical sleep, body twitches some but mainly relaxed as the mind has dreams- once every sleep cycle, body still active

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EEG Scans

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Scans of electric activity in the brain during sleep to see what and how much of the brain is active during sleep and its different parts

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Alpha Waves

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Slow and relaxed brain waves while one is awake

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Sleep

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Necessary process/loss of consciousness from which we can come back (Not a coma)

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PET Scan

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Scan of the brain to see what parts of it are active during sleep stages

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Sleep Spindles

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Short bursts of brain activity during NREM 2

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Morning Erection

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When a man awakens and has an erection due to having an arousing REM dream

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Erectile Disorder

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Issues with maintaining/getting an erection despite getting a “morning erection”

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Sleep Debt

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Losing sleep over the course of multiple nights and having to make up for it all one night later

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Randy Gardner

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Holds the world record for staying awake the longest without stimulants

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Adenosine

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Drug to treat irregular heartbeat

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Pituitary Gland

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Gland that controls all other glands (including the pineal gland)

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Sleep Disorders

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Disorders that interfere with sleep acquired by a person

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Insomnia

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Inability to fall/stay asleep

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Narcolepsy

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Falling asleep suddenly (into REM) as a result of strong emotions or situations

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Sleep Apnea

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When someone stops breathing during sleep, wakes up as a result, and then falls asleep

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Hypocretin

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Neurotransmitter involved in alertness

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Night Terrors

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Not remembering acting terrified/aroused during NREM 3 and experiencing something similar to a nightmare (2-3 hours post sleep)

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Dreams

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Images, emotions, and thoughts that occur during sleep, causing hallucination images that are sometimes improbable and delusion in one’s acceptance, and they are hard to remember- during REM

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Nightmare

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A terrifying dream during REM making it differ from a night-terror

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Sigmund Freud

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Believed dreams are our suppressed desires

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Manifest Content

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What happens (the plot) of the dream

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Latent Conent

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The drives/unfulfilled wishes present in the dream through symbolic elements

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The Interpretation of Dreams

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Book by Freud stating how he believed dreams were all of our unconscious desires

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Information Processing Theory

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Idea that the purpose of dreams is to help us store our memories

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Activation-Synthesis Theory

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Our brain produces static, thus causing us to remember things which we make into stories to make sense of them

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REM Rebound

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After sleep with drawl, we go straight into REM sleep and for a longer amount of time

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Hypnotic State

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Someone in the state of being hypnotized, doing things without remembering

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Posthypnotic Amnesia

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Not remembering what happened during a hypnotic session

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Anton Mesmer

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One of the first to start hypnotic medicine under a different name- Animal magnetic and magnetic fluid

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Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale

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Help with why hypnotism works and how susceptible a person is to it

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Hypnotic Susceptibility

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How open to being hypnotized someone is, differs depending on what is being asked

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Posthypnotic Suggestion

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A suggestion that is carried out when a person is out of the hypnotized state, can be used to regulate behaviors or other things

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Dissociation

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How and when a person becomes detached from consciousness- physical and emotional (split in consciousness where thoughts and behaviors occur

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Social Influence Theory

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Idea that people under hypnosis are caught up in an act and are influenced by social authority

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Divided Consciousness

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Idea that hypnotized people are that way due to their subconscious being the test subject and obeying the command

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Ernest Hilgard

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Stanford Psychologist who looked into hypnosis as a pain controller

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Hidden Observer

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How aware a hypnotized person is of their emotions and feelings like pain

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Psychoactive Drugs

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Chemicals that change the perception or feelings of the user

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Tolerance

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Regular use of a drug causes less effects, more of drug need for some effects

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Neuroadaptation

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Change in brain chemistry as a result of regular drug use

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Withdrawal

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Stopping drug use and experiencing unlikable symptoms

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Physical Dependence

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Need to take a dug due to experiencing withdrawal symptoms

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Psychological Dependence

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Need to do drugs due to a need to relieve a negative psych problem

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Depressants

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Drugs that slow neural activity thus reducing the functions of the body (Opiates, alcohol, barbiturates)

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Stimulants

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Drugs that increase neural activity and functions of the body (make them faster)

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Hallucinogens

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Drugs that cause sensational images and alter one’s viewpoint

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Amphetamines

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Drugs that increase neural activity and functions of the body, increased mood and energy

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Cocaine

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Stimulates aggression and increases reactions

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MDMA

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Another name for ecstasy

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Psychodelic Drugs

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Drugs that change mind, perception, and senses- manipulates brain into sensing what’s not there

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LSD

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Another name for acid

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Acid Trip

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When someones uses LSD, creates strong, sensory images- lots of emotions, like near death experiences

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THC

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Delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol used in marijuana for its effects

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Alcohol

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Drug as a dis-inhibitor that slows body motions and the overall mental functioning

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Heroin

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An opiate that slows nervous system and creates a peaceful moment

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Caffine

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In coffee, speeds up brain, thus elevating one’s mood and functioning

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Methamphetamine

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Stimulates CNS, speeds up functioning, energy, and mood by stopping production of dopamine

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Ecstasy

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Synthetic, more intimacy, long term risk= less serotonin and poor mod/intelligence, short=health

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Marijuana

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Mild hallucinogen that relaxes the body and makes it more susceptible to stimulated imagery

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Near-Death Experience

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Hallucinations after being close to death, altered conscious, memories and exaggerated physical sensations

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