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Chapter 6 - Consciousness Flashcards

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the study of individual consciousness that addresses subjective experience

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phenomenology

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a person’s awareness of herself and her surroundings

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consciousness

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because the nature of consciousness is internal, a person can’t tell how similar another person’s perceptions are to his own

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problem of the minds

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state characterized by bizarre, disorganized, and dreamlike thought patterns; state in which a person is not fully alert to his mental processes

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altered state of consciousness

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relatively fragmented connection between self and environment in which a person might respond to a stimulus without being aware of it at a more thoughtful level

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minimal consciousness

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state in which person is aware of environment, his mental state, and can provide information about it

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full consciousness

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most self-aware state of consciousness; allows person to focus on himself

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self-consciousness

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state of consciousness experienced while we sleep but can still respond to a nudge by rolling over

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minimal consciousness

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state of consciousness when we examine ourselves in a mirror

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self-consciousness

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state of consciousness that involves metacognition (thinking about thoughts)

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full consciousness

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process that occurs in the body that people do not have to consciously monitor or regulate

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nonconscious process (heart beat, breathing)

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information usually outside a person’s awareness, but that’s able to be brought into consciousness on demand

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preconscious information (memories)

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experiences, ideas, and motives that are so threatening or unacceptable that a person has permanently removed them from consciousness

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unconscious information

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collection of mental processes that affect the way a person feels or behaves, even though she is not consciously aware of them

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cognitive unconscious

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aspect of consciousness that allows people to selectively analyze, interpret, and act on stimuli

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selective storage function

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aspect of consciousness that allows people to exercise selective attention or consciously focus on one stimulus or perception at a given time

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restrictive function

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aspect of consciousness that helps inhibit unethical, immoral or impractical urges

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planning function

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natural loss of consciousness

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sleep

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biological clock that regulates body function on a 24 hour cycle

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circadian rythm

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part of hypothalamus that controls circadian clock; acts on pineal gland; signaled by light hitting retina

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suprachiasmatic nucleus

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sleep inducing hormone secreted by pineal glad

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melatonin

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sleep inducing hormone, activity can be blocked by caffeine

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adenosine

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Recurring stage of sleep with vivid dreams

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REM sleep

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wave that characterizes active wakefulness

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Beta wave

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brain wave that characterizes relaxed wakefulness

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alpha wave

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wave that characterizes stage 1 sleep

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theta wave

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biphasic wave that occurs spontaneously during sleep; first appears in stage 2

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k-complex

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things that happen during stage 1 sleep

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hypnagogia, exploding head syndrome, feeling of floating, alien abductions

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burst of fast, sharply pointed brain waves; first appear in stage 2

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sleep spindles

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4 theories of sleep

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preservation & protection, body restoration, memory, growth

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brain wave with high amplitude that characterizes stage 3

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delta waves

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learning while asleep; behavioral learning (like not biting fingernails), but probably not cognitive learning

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hypnopaedia

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a person who requires much less that 8 hours of sleep a day

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nonsomniac

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sleep disorder characterized by recurring difficulty falling or staying asleep

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insomnia

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sleep disorder characterized by periodic, uncontrollable sleep attacks

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narcolepsy

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sleep disorder in which people intermittently stop breathing

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sleep apnea

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benign sleep disorder common in children, characterized by episodes of high arousal and terrified appearance

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night terror

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sequence of images, feeling, ideas, and impressions that pass through the mind during sleep

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dream

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what a person explicity remembers about a dream–storyline, characters, details

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manifest content

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phenomenon in which a person achieves awareness of a dream while he is dreaming

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lucid dreaming

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describes the unconscious meaning of a dream

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latent content

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dreams are a result of brain’s attempt to make sense of neural random neural activity during sleep

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activation-synthesis theory

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excercise in suggesting perceptions, feeling, thoughts,or behaviors that a subject can expect to experience

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hypnosis

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susceptibility to hypnotism

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hypnotic ability

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suggestion made during hypnosis that is executed by participant when she is no longer hypnotized

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posthypnotic suggestion

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4 theories of purpose of dreams

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fulfill wishes and express unacceptable feelings; information processing (sort and stabalize memories); activation-synthesis; development

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pain relief through hypnosis, may work by causing dissociation

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hypnotic analgesia

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split in cosciousness that allows simultaneous thoughts and behaviors to occur apart from each other

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dissociation

may happen during hypnosis

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4 levels of consciousness

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altered state of consciousness, minimal consciousness, full consciousness, self-consciousness

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types of information that we aren’t aware of

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nonconscious (autonomic activities), preconscious (on demand), and unconscious (burried)

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survival advantages of consciousness

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restrictive function (cocktail-party phenomenon), selective storage function, the planning function

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parts of the brain involved with sleep

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hypothalamus, suprachiasmatic nucleus, pineal gland

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purpose of hypnosis

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recall, therapy (posthypnotic suggestion), pain relief (hypnotic analgesia)

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