Consciousness Flashcards

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1
Q

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

A

Consciousness

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the focus
of one’s consciousness on a particular
stimulus

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selective attention

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3
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in psychodynamic
theory, descriptive of material that is
not in awareness but can be brought
into awareness by focusing one’s
attention

A

preconscious

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4
Q

in psychodynamic
theory, descriptive of ideas and
feelings that are not available
to awareness; also: without
consciousness

A

unconscious

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5
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in psychodynamic
theory, the automatic (unconscious)
ejection of anxiety-evoking ideas,
impulses, or images from awareness

A

repression

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the deliberate, or
conscious, placing of certain ideas,
impulses, or images out of awareness

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suppression

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7
Q

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

A

nonconscious

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8
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a cycle that is
connected with the 24-hour period of
the earth’s rotation

A

circadian rhythm

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Q

rapid
low-amplitude brain waves that
have been linked to feelings of
relaxation

A

Alpha Wave

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10
Q

the first four
stages of sleep

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non-rapid eye movement
(NREM) sleep

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a stage of
sleep characterized by rapid eye
movements, which have been
linked to dreaming

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rapid eye movement
(REM) sleep

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12
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slow brain
waves produced during the
hypnagogic state

A

theta waves

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13
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strong, slow
brain waves usually emitted
during stage 4 sleep

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delta waves

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14
Q

-You cannot force or will yourself to go to sleep.
-You can only set the stage for sleep by relaxing when
you are tired

A

Insomia

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frightening,
dream-like experiences that occur
during the deepest stage of NREM
sleep; nightmares, in contrast, occur
during REM sleep

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sleep terrors

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16
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temporary absence
or cessation of breathing while
sleeping

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sleep apnea

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17
Q

a “sleep attack” in
which a person falls asleep suddenly
and irresistibly

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narcolepsy

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18
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the
view that the content of dreams
tends to be consistent with previous
cognitive activity

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continuity hypothesis

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19
Q

the view that dreams reflect
activation of cognitive activity by the
reticular formation and synthesis of
this activity into a pattern

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activation–synthesis model

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20
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How many hours did sleep experts the recommended hours of sleep?

A

Seven to nine hours

21
Q

How many hours according to the National Sleep
Foundation (2013) is the recommended hours of sleep

A

6.8 hours

22
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-awareness in environments
-can`t be recorded or captured
-sense of self

A

Consciousness

23
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-focusing on one thing
-cocktail party effect
-a key to control self

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Selective Attention

24
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-unique feeling
-you can only feel what you feel

A

Direct Inner Awareness

25
Q

-Presented a device that could get another to move without their free will

A

Greg Gage

26
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-experiences that are available to be conscious
-material is not currently aware

A

Preconscious

27
Q

-sex & aggression
-we need to repress

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Unconscious

28
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goal of theraphy

A

Bring out unconscious

29
Q

goal of therapy

A

Bring out unconscious

30
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-Automatically forgets
-Mother of all defense mechanisms according to Freud

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Repression

31
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-consciously eject mental events from awareness

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Suppression

32
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-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

A

fugue state or dissociative fugue

33
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-Body processes that were not aware of.
ex: Breathing & Neurons

A

Nonconscious

34
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consciousness as personal unity

A

-Sense of self
-you know your narrative

35
Q

to phenomena that occur on awakening

A

Hypnopompic

36
Q

to the state immediately before falling asleep

A

Hypnagogic

37
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-panic attack that happens when asleep

A

Nocturnal Panic

38
Q

-You’re not supposed to be awake but you’re awake
-hence you can’t move
-Brain is shocked and is still getting ready

A

Sleep paralysis

39
Q

sleep hormone

A

Melatonin

40
Q

what are humans,when it comes to sleeping

A

nocturnal

41
Q

-deep sleep
-Brain rest and detoxify
-paradoxical sleep
-Brain waves goes faster or bigger and active

A

Rem Sleep

42
Q

-focusing one’s consciousness on a
particular stimulus
-is a key to self-control

A

Selective Attention

43
Q

This is why we can pick out the speech of a single person across a room at a cocktail party, a phenomenon aptly termed

A

cocktail party effect

44
Q

Neither your eyes nor any other sensory organs were involved. You were conscious of the image through what?

A

Direct inner awareness

45
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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

A

Consciousness

46
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not currently in awareness but is readily
available

A

Preconscious

47
Q

When we consciously eject unwanted mental events from awareness

A

Suppression

48
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Some bodily processes, such as the firing of neurons

A

nonconscious