Chapter 5 - States Of Consciousness

Question 1

Sleep is an altered states of consciousness

Answer 1

Mental states found generally during sleep, dreaming, psychiatric drug use, and hypnosis

Question 2

Near death experience

Answer 2

Heart stopped, no brain activity, and almost died

Question 3

Consciousness

Answer 3

And organisms awareness of its own self and surrounding almost like a river or stream

Question 4

Circadian rhythms

Answer 4

Means around a day in Latin

People have rhythms that work around a day (biological, biochemical, and behavioral changes that occur in living organisms in the 24 hour cycle)

Question 5

Supracyasmatic nucleus

Answer 5

Resets your clock

Question 6

Symptoms of sleep deprivation

Answer 6

Slow reaction time, stupider, microsleep, energy low levels, and stressed

Question 7

Body temperature

Answer 7

Dips through the night and in the morning it comes back to normal and regulates

Question 8

REM rapid eye movement

Answer 8

Stages of sleep where there are rapid eye movement and high-frequency brain movements

Question 9

NREM (non-rapid eye movement)

Answer 9

Stages 1 to 4 of sleep

Question 10

Dreams and sleeping

Answer 10

About three fourths of dreams are unpleasant

Question 11

Paradoxical sleep

Answer 11

Deeply asleep and paralyzed but active brain waves

Question 12

Sleep cycle

Answer 12

If you wake up in the middle of the night if you return to stage one

Stage 4 there are no dreams

Question 13

Why do we forget our dreams

Answer 13

Because they are unimportant

Question 14

Can people control their dreams?

Answer 14

Yes

Lucid dreams = flying

Question 15

Babies and dreaming

Answer 15

Babies dream about 40% of the time

Dream because theyre learning

Question 16

Confirmation bias

Answer 16

Look for evidence that supports what you believe

Question 17

Why do we sleep

Answer 17

1. Prevents us from getting eaten by predictors

2. Restore our bodies

Question 18

Dyssomnia

Answer 18

Problems in the amount, timing and quality of sleep

Question 19

Most common dyssomnia is insomnia

What’s insomnia

Answer 19

When people can’t sleep at night or wake up too early or have depression/anxiety/use drugs or alcohol

Question 20

Manic-depression

Answer 20

Like bipolar disorder

Can’t sleep

Question 21

Dependency

Answer 21

When people take drugs to follow sleep but if taken regularly they won’t be able to sleep

Question 22

GABA

Answer 22

Makes you calm

Question 23

Cognitive behaviour therapy

What to do

Answer 23

• when you’re having difficulty falling asleep don’t keep checking the clock and worry about the loss of sleep
• use progressive muscle relaxation
• practice yoga or deep breathing
• avoid late meals and heavy drinking
• avoid stimulants such as caffeine and nicotine

Question 24

Narcolepsy

Answer 24

Sudden and resistible sleep obstetric you’re doing normal waking hours because of excitement and happiness

Question 25

Parasomnia

Answer 25

Abnormal disturbances occurring during sleep including nightmares, night terrors, sleepwalking, and sleep talking

Question 26

Apnea

Answer 26

People that’s Laura and most likely to get a heart attack high blood pressure and heart disease because they have trouble breathing

Question 27

Psychoactive drugs

Answer 27

Any drug that has an effect on the mind (altered perception conscious awareness and or mood)

Two kinds

1. Agonistic drug
2. Antagonistic drug

Question 28

Agonistic drug

Answer 28

A drug that mimics or enhances the activity of neurotransmitters

Question 29

Antagonistic drugs

Answer 29

A drug that blocks or inhibits the activity of neurotransmitters

Question 30

Addiction

Answer 30

A broad term referring to a condition in which a person has an overwhelming commitment to the drug of choice that supplants all other activities

Question 31

Withdrawal

Answer 31

Characteristic signs that appear in person when a drug is discontinued after prolonged use

Ex: hallucinatory events

Question 32

Tolerance

Answer 32

The state reach when the psychological reaction to the drug decreases there for an increased dose necessary for same effect

Question 33

Cross tolerance

Answer 33

Able to tolerate some of the drugs that same dosage

Question 34

Depressants and suppressants

Answer 34

Depressants are drugs that slow or depressed and nervous system

Suppressants are drugs at speed of the nervous system

Question 35

Meditation and mindfulness

Answer 35

Meditation is group of techniques designed to refocus attention, block out all distractions and produce an altered state of consciousness

A moment to moment and nonjudgmental wetness of one’s experience

Question 36

Hypnosis

Answer 36

A trancelike state of heightened suggestibility, deep relaxation and intense focus

Question 37

Myths of hypnosis

Answer 37

1. Remember the past
2. Forced hypnosis
3. Unethical behaviors
4. Faking
5. Superhuman strength
6. Exceptional memory

Question 38

Sleep paralysis

Answer 38

Happens right before you’re about to fall asleep