Chp 6 Flashcards
No currently in awareness, but readily available for exp a wiff of pumpkin pie can trigger a memory
MEMORIES
Preconscious
Awareness of oneself and surroundings
Consciousness
(Freud) ideas, motives that are threatening or unacceptable that a person has removed them from consciousness-repressed memories
Unconscious
Bodily processes that cannot be experienced through sensory awareness
Nonconscious
You don’t know what your liver is doing is exp of
Nonconscious
A cycle that is connected with the 24-hour period of the earths rotation
Circadian Rhythm
Rejuvenates the body
helps us recover from stress
Helps us consolidate learning and memories
May promote development of infants brain
Repair Theory
Sleep evolved because it prevented early humans and animals from wasting energy and exposing themselves to the danger of nocturnal predators
Adaptive Theory
What is Melatonin and Adenosine relation to sleep?
They are both hormones that help with the sleep
At night decreases it in the morning to help use wake
Melatonin
Another sleep inducing hormone
Adenosine
Rapid eye movement is present
REM
No rapid eye movement
First Four Stages of sleep
Non-REM
Not true stage of sleep
Pre stage
Relaxed and drowsy
Usually eyes closed
Alpha Stage
%80 of sleep time
Increases with physical activity
Non-REM (NREM)
Transition stage
NOT ASLEEP
Body functions slow down
Stage 1
Feelings of weightless, floating, flashing lights
Hypnagogic state
Reflexive muscle twitch
Hypnic Jerk
First stage of real sleep
Appearance of Sleep spindles
Stage 2
High frequency bursts of brain activity
Sleep spindles
Nothing of importance happens
Delta waves start to appear
Stage 3
Deepest stage of sleep Sleepwalking sleeptalking Night terrors Children may wet the bed
Stage 4
%20 of sleep time
Increases with stress and intense learning
Nightmares
REM
Brain waves resemble awake and alert
Paradoxical sleep
Lack of REM sleep deprived
Learn more slowly
Forget what they have learned sooner
Poor concentration
Poor driving ability
Brain waves look similar to those of being awake and alert
Paradoxical sleep
Frightening experiences that often start with a piercing scream (screaming child)
Night terror
Just parts of the sleep
Hypnagogia
Learning while sleeping
Hypropaedia
4 basic theories on dream interpretation
Extensions of Waking Life
Freud’s Theory of Dream Interpretation
Activation-Synthesis Theory
Entering the Spiritual World
Memories of the days events
Daytime activities continue in dreams
Extensions of Waking Life
Expression of unconscious desires
Freud’s Theory of Dream Interpretation
You don’t like your friends boyfriend but you dream of kissing him is exp of
Freud’s Theory of Dream Interpetation
Neural firing leads to hallucinations that are interpreted as dreams
Most likely dream of recent events
Activation- Synthesis Theory
In dreaming one enters the spiritual world where souls of animals and relatives are made known
Help a living person reflect on some present or future event
Entering the Spiritual World
Any dream in which one is aware that one is dreaming
Lucid dreaming
Inability to fall asleep or stay asleep
Insomnia
Chronic disorder that is marked by excessive sleepiness
Form of sleep attacks or shorts periods of sleep throughout the day
Narcolepsy
Repeated periods during sleep when a person stops breathing for 10 seconds or longer
Apnea
Getting up and walking while literally sound asleep
Sleepwalking
A alter state of consciousness and people have to be suggestible (have to believe what their suggesting will help you) helps with anxiety, bad habits and fears
Hypnotism
Pain relief through hypnosis
Hypnotic analgesia
Focusing consciousness to alter relationship between the self and the environment
Meditation
Relaxation response
Transcendental meditation
Focusing on the present rather on problems on your experiences
Mindfulness meditation
