Consciousness Flashcards
The focus of one’s consciousness on a particular stimulus
Selective attention
Knowledge of one’s owns thought, feeling and memories without the use of sensory organs
Direct inner awareness
In psychodynamic theory, descriptive of material that is not in awareness but can be brought into awareness bu focusing one’s attention
Pre conscious
In psychodynamic theory, descriptive of ideas and feelings that are not available to awareness; also: without consciousness
Unconscious
In psychodynamic theory, automatic (unconscious) ejection of anxiety-evoking ideas impulses, or images out of awareness
Repression
Descriptive of bodily processes, such as growing hair,of which we cannot become conscious; we may recognize that hour hair is growing, but we cannot directly experience the biological process
Nonconscious
A cycle that is connected with the 24-hour period of the earths rotation
Circadian rhythm
Rapid low amplitude brain waves that have been linked to feelings of relaxation
Alpha waves
The first four stages of sleep
Non rapid eye movement NREM
The stage of sleep characterize by rapid eye movements, which have been linked to dreaming
Rapid eye movement REM
Slow brain waves produced during the hypnagogic state
Theta waves
Strong, slow brain waves usually emitted during the stage 4 sleep
Delta waves
Helps to rejuvenate the body
Sleep
Connected with the consolidation of learning and memory
Sleep/deep sleep
The view that the contents of dreams tend to be consistent with the previous cognitive theory
Continuity hypothesis
