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Chapter 6 Flashcards

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Attentional blindness

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A failure to notice something obvious changing in front of us when focused on something else

eg. gorilla in ball passing video

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Change blindness

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A failure to notice large changes in ones environment, eg researcher asking for direction.

eg. switching people fast behind wood asking for directions,

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fMRI

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increases activity in brain, maybe we gain understanding of consciousness/understanding in the brain

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Automatic processing

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Occurs when we know a test so well that we do it without much attention. Allows less focus on consciousness.

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Controlled Processing

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Helps us with more complex or new task situations. Slower than automatic processing

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Behavioural Study

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Objective measures, eg rouge test, mirror recognition test. (monkeys look into mirror and know its them)

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Circadian Rhythms

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Rhythmic daily cycles
Wakefulness –> sleep

peep slides

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Sleeping

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sleep regulated by specific part of the hypothalamus

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Suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN)

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Signals to the pineal gland to release melatonin
Active-Reduce
Inactive-Increase

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Stage 1 of sleep,

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Light Sleep (1-10min)
Alpha/beta waves from wakefulness transition to theta waves then you have fallen asleep

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Stage 2

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Deeper sleep, (10-25 min)
Body is slowing down, heartrate and more,
Sleep spindles (1-2 seconds of rapid brain active that keep the brain awake)

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Stage 3/4

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Deeper sleep (10-30 min)
Appearance of delta waves
Slow wave sleep

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Stage 5

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REM sleep (rapid eye movement)
Occupies 20-25% of our night sleep
Cycles of REM sleep last between 20min-1h
REM sleep paralysis (dream dream dream dream dream)

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Why Sleep?

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Restoration theory - Repair and rest
Circadian rhythm theory - Survival (most at risk at night)
Learning Theory - learning works better with sleep

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Freud’s Dream Protection Theory

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The Interpretation of Dream (1900)
Basically Hidden Content: Manifest and Latent content

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Manifest

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The actual dream

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Latent Content

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What the dream symbolizes eg, 3 = penis

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Activation- Synthesis Theory

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Saying Dreams mean Nothing
Activation: random neural activity in the brain
Synthesis: cerebral cortex interprets activity

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Insomnia

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Difficulty falling and staying asleep, most common sleep disorder, caused by stress and includes people with Pseudionsomniacs (swear they are not sleeping but they are)

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REM sleep behaviour Disorder (RBD)

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REM sleep paralysis is disabled (act out dreams in real life while they sleep)

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Sleepwalking

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Somnambulism , where ppl fall asleep and walk, common in jits

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Out-of-body experiences

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A sense of consciousness leaving our body, about 25% of all college students experience.

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Near-Death Experience

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Out of body experience where people almost or think they will die, passing through dark running into the light.

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Meditation

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A mental procedure where we focus on some external or internal object, event or sense of awareness

Concentrative: focus on one thing
Mindfulness: let thoughts slow freely

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Benefits to Meditation

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lower blood pressure, less stress, change to hormones, improvement in attention, more “positive brain activity” improve in brain longterm

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Hypnosis

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Social interaction where people respond to shit, can help smoking succession

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Stimulants

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Stimulate and heighten activity in the body, increase heart rate, blood pressure, mood, restlessness
Decreases sleep
interferes with reuptake of dopamine (allow dopeimine to last longer)
Increases release of dopamine

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Cocaine

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Feel Alert, energy, sociable, feeling amazing
Can lead to Parania, psychotic, violence
Blocks reuptake of dopamine

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Amphetamines

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Reduces fatigue via increase of dopamine
Side effects: insomnia, anxiety, addictive

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Depressants

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Depress/decrease behavioural and mental activity
Alcohol and sedative-hypnotics

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Alcohol

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Small doses: feel relax, elevate mood, impart judgement,
Large doses: sedating and depressant effects more apparent, Brain centre becomes depressed

Increase GABA
Decrease Glutamate

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Opiates (narcotics)

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Relieve pain and induce sleep (Heroin, morphine, codeine, oxycodone)

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Mu opioid Receptor

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Opiates bind to and stimulate receptors to relieve pain, Heroin works on mu and dopamine receptors

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Hallucinogens (psychedelics)

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Alters cognition mode and perception
Interferes with serotonin and dopamine
LSD, mushrooms, MDMAish

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Marijuana

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THC: relaxed mental state, uplifted mood, distortions in perception or cognition. Decreases in reaction time, motor coordination, memory Hippocampus (memory)

CBD: Anti anxiety, anti-inflammatory, anti-psychotic

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Psych 104 (10 decks)

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