Consciousness Flashcards
a concept
with many meanings, including
sensory awareness of the world
outside, direct inner awareness
of one’s thoughts and feelings,
personal unity, and the waking
state
Consciousness
the focus
of one’s consciousness on a particular
stimulus
selective attention
in psychodynamic
theory, descriptive of material that is
not in awareness but can be brought
into awareness by focusing one’s
attention
preconscious
in psychodynamic
theory, descriptive of ideas and
feelings that are not available
to awareness; also: without
consciousness
unconscious
in psychodynamic
theory, the automatic (unconscious)
ejection of anxiety-evoking ideas,
impulses, or images from awareness
repression
the deliberate, or
conscious, placing of certain ideas,
impulses, or images out of awareness
suppression
descriptive of
bodily processes, such as growing
hair, of which we cannot become
conscious; we may “recognize” that our
hair is growing, but we cannot directly
experience the biological process
nonconscious
a cycle that is
connected with the 24-hour period of
the earth’s rotation
circadian rhythm
rapid
low-amplitude brain waves that
have been linked to feelings of
relaxation
Alpha Wave
the first four
stages of sleep
non-rapid eye movement
(NREM) sleep
a stage of
sleep characterized by rapid eye
movements, which have been
linked to dreaming
rapid eye movement
(REM) sleep
slow brain
waves produced during the
hypnagogic state
theta waves
strong, slow
brain waves usually emitted
during stage 4 sleep
delta waves
-You cannot force or will yourself to go to sleep.
-You can only set the stage for sleep by relaxing when
you are tired
Insomia
frightening,
dream-like experiences that occur
during the deepest stage of NREM
sleep; nightmares, in contrast, occur
during REM sleep
sleep terrors
temporary absence
or cessation of breathing while
sleeping
sleep apnea
a “sleep attack” in
which a person falls asleep suddenly
and irresistibly
narcolepsy
the
view that the content of dreams
tends to be consistent with previous
cognitive activity
continuity hypothesis
the view that dreams reflect
activation of cognitive activity by the
reticular formation and synthesis of
this activity into a pattern
activation–synthesis model