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
How many hours did sleep experts the recommended hours of sleep?
Seven to nine hours
How many hours according to the National Sleep
Foundation (2013) is the recommended hours of sleep
6.8 hours
-awareness in environments
-can`t be recorded or captured
-sense of self
Consciousness
-focusing on one thing
-cocktail party effect
-a key to control self
Selective Attention
-unique feeling
-you can only feel what you feel
Direct Inner Awareness
-Presented a device that could get another to move without their free will
Greg Gage
-experiences that are available to be conscious
-material is not currently aware
Preconscious
-sex & aggression
-we need to repress
Unconscious
goal of theraphy
Bring out unconscious
goal of therapy
Bring out unconscious
-Automatically forgets
-Mother of all defense mechanisms according to Freud
Repression
-consciously eject mental events from awareness
Suppression
-a temporary state where a person has memory loss (amnesia) and ends up in an unexpected place.
-can’t remember who they are or details about their past.
-Forgot certain time
fugue state or dissociative fugue
-Body processes that were not aware of.
ex: Breathing & Neurons
Nonconscious
consciousness as personal unity
-Sense of self
-you know your narrative
to phenomena that occur on awakening
Hypnopompic
to the state immediately before falling asleep
Hypnagogic
-panic attack that happens when asleep
Nocturnal Panic
-You’re not supposed to be awake but you’re awake
-hence you can’t move
-Brain is shocked and is still getting ready
Sleep paralysis
sleep hormone
Melatonin
what are humans,when it comes to sleeping
nocturnal
-deep sleep
-Brain rest and detoxify
-paradoxical sleep
-Brain waves goes faster or bigger and active
Rem Sleep
-focusing one’s consciousness on a
particular stimulus
-is a key to self-control
Selective Attention
This is why we can pick out the speech of a single person across a room at a cocktail party, a phenomenon aptly termed
cocktail party effect
Neither your eyes nor any other sensory organs were involved. You were conscious of the image through what?
Direct inner awareness
Self-awareness is connected with the firing of billions of neurons hundreds of times per second. Even so, we detect psychological processes but not neural events
Consciousness
not currently in awareness but is readily
available
Preconscious
When we consciously eject unwanted mental events from awareness
Suppression
Some bodily processes, such as the firing of neurons
nonconscious
