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How many levels of consciousness are there?

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4.

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What are the levels of consciousness?

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  1. Consciousness
  2. Pre-Conscious
  3. Non-Conscious
  4. Unconscious/Sub-conscious
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What is the meaning of Consciousness?

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Being aware of yourself and the surroundings. Being able to react to the outside world, think and use your mind.

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What is the meaning of Pre-Conscious?

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Parts of the brain that can be accessed by the conscious mind, but aren’t being used currently.

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What is the meaning of Non-conscious?

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Thoughts and processes that are in peoples mind without them being aware of them.

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What is Unconscious/Subconscious?

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Thoughts we aren’t aware of, but that influence our conscious thoughts.

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What is Frued’s theory about Subconsciousness?

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Frued believed that subconscious thoughts were thoughts and urges that were too unacceptable to be practiced in real life. Eg. Sexual desires.

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What is an example of Nonconscious?

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Heart beating, stomach digesting, lungs breathing

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What is an example of Pre-Conscious?

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Remembering what you had for lunch, remembering a childhood memory based off a smell/taste etc.

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What is an examble of consciousness?

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Knowing your surroundings, being able to catch a ball or react to something externally, being able to think.

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What is phenominal conscious?

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The ‘here and now’ consciousness.

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What is an example of phenominal consciousness?

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Being able to realise that you’re thinking in the present moment. Eg. realising how red something is or how strong something smells.

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What is access consciousness?

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What we remember of an experience, however less detailed.

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Altered states of consciousness

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Awake
Asleep
Dreaming
Daydreaming
Orgasm
Hallucinating
Hypnosis
sensory deprivation
Food/Oxygen Starvation
Meditation

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What is classed as Spontaneous, daily states of consciousness?

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Awake
Asleep
Dreaming
Daydreaming

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What is classed as Psychologically induced stated of consciousness?

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Hypnosis
Meditation
Sensory Deprivation

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What is classes at physiologically induced states of consciousness?

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Hallucinations
Food/Oxygen starvation
Orgasm

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What is hypnosis?

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When someone is guided by another person to respond to suggestions given.

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What does hypnosis alter?

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Thoughts, perceptions, behaviour, emotion and sensations

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20
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What altered state of mind do some practitioners use as a therapy aid?

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Hypnosis

21
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What is a hallucination?

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False perception that is exactly like reality. A person perceives something that isn’t really there, but seems completely realistic.

22
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What are the types of hallucinations?

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Auditory
Visual
Olfactory
Gustatory
Tactile

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What is an olfactory hallucination?

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Smelling things that aren’t there.

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What is a gustatory hallucination?

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Tasting something that isn’t there.

25
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Who most often gets gustatory hallucinations?

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People on drugs or people with Dementia.

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What is a tactile hallucination?

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Thinking something is on or under skin.

27
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True or False: Hallucinations only occur for people with mental illnesses of some sort.

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False: 10-30/40% of people will experience a hallucination at some point in their life.

28
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What is DeJa-Vu?

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A sense of experiencing something that’s already happened and thinking you’re able to predict the outcome.

29
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True or False: People who experience Deja-Vu are likely to become uni-educated, high income, Liberal voters.

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True.

30
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What causes DeJa-Vu?

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We experience an event and milliseconds later have a very small seizure in the right temporal lobe.

31
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What does the Right Temporal Lobe assist with?

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Associated with feelings of familiarity.

32
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What is Capgras Syndrome?

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When a person believes their family member or friend is an imposter.

33
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Who is likely to develop Capgras Syndrome?

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People with Schizophrenia, Dementia or brain injury.

34
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What causes Capgras Syndrome?

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A disconnection between the temporal lobe (facial recognition) and limbic system (emotional connection).

35
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Is Alcohol a CNS stimulant or CNS depressant?

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CNS depressant

36
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Are drugs a CNS stimulant or CNS depressant?

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CNS strong stimulant

37
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What does Cocaine do to your brain?

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Stops Dopamine from being recycled, instead causing a massive build up in the synapse.
Causes disruptions in normal brain communication, causing a ‘high’

38
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What is the synapse?

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Space between nerve cell endings.

39
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What are the short term effects of cocaine?

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Increases neurotransmitter dopamine (reward system).
Associated with Euphoria, mental and physical excitation, decrease in hunger, increase in pain threshold, sense of wellbeing.

40
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How long does a cocaine ‘high’ last?

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About half an hour.

41
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What are the long term effects of Cocaine?

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Disrupts cortical reward system, which makes people struggle to have a natural high.
Paranoia
Anxiety
Depression

42
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What are the short term effects of Alcohol?

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Relaxation
Elevated mood
Increased talkativeness
Increased activity
More extroverted
Impaired judgement

43
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What alcohol BAC shows depressive actions

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0.05% - 0.1%

44
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True or False: Women have higher BAC for same qty of drinks than men due to level of body fat

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True

45
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What is the level of intoxication determined by?

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Blood Alcohol Content

46
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What is BAC determined by?

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Body fat
Stomach contents

47
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What is Delirium Tremens (DT)?

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Alcohol Withdrawl

48
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What are the symptoms of DT?

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Disorientation
Confusion
Visual hallucinations
Memory deficit
Tachycardia
Cardiac Arrythmia
Hypertension
Hyperthermia
Diaphoresis
Heart Attack
Stroke
Paranoia

49
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What is DT usually treated with?

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Benzodiazepines under an induced coma, to lessen the suffering on the patient.

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