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Consciousness Flashcards

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Consciousness

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The moment-to-moment subjective experience of the world, bodies, and mental sensations

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Interdisciplinary

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Physics, philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, computer science, etc.

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Cognitive Psychology

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  • Human’s are “information processors”. The mind is the computer’s software and the brain is the computer’s hardware.
  • THE CAVEAT: An oversimplification. Not all cognitive psychologists agree with this interpretation
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Controlled (Effortful) Processing

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Mental processing that requires some degree of volitional control and attentiveness

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Automatic Processing

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Mental activities that occur automatically and require no (or) minimal consciousness control or awareness

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Divided Attention

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  • The ability to perform more than one activity at the same time
  • It is difficult if tasks require similar cognitive resources – Listening to music and studying for an exam
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The Problem of Other Minds

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  • The fundamental difficulty we have in perceiving the consciousness of others.
  • There is no way to distinguish a conscious and unconscious mind
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The Mind-Body Problem

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The issue of how the mind is related to the brain and body

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Intentionality

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The quality of being directed towards an object. This means that consciousness is always about something.

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Unity

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The resistance to division or the ability to integrate information from all your body’s senses into a coherent whole.

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Selectivity

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The capacity to include some objects but not others. Your mind makes decisions about which pieces of information to include and which it wants to exclude. This is done through dichotic listening

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Dichotic Listening

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task in which people wearing headphones hear different sounds or messages in each ear. Participants don’t realize that they are listening to two different sounds – filtering out information while tuning into other information. This is done through the cocktail-party phenomenon

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Cocktail-Party Phenomenon

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A phenomenon in which people tune in one message even while they filter out others nearby

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Transcience

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The tendency to change.

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Minimal Consciousness

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A low-level kind of sensory awareness and responsiveness that occurs when the mind inputs sensations and may output behaviour.

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Full Consciousness

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When you know and are able to report on your mental state. You are aware of having this mental state while you are experiencing the mental state itself.

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Self-Consciousness

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When the person’s attention is drawn to the self as an object. It focuses on the self excluding almost everything else.

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Coma

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Appear to be deeply asleep. They cannot open their eyes, communicate, or respond to anything. They are completely unaware

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Vegetative State

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Alternate between having their eyes open and closed. There are times where they appear to be awake and may move, grunt, smile, cry, moan etc. But there is nothing that suggests they are aware.

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Minimally Conscious State

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People respond reliably but inconsistently to stimulation.

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Mental Control

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he attempt to change conscious states of mind. Ex. Someone who worries a lot about the future might choose not to worry about it, because it causes anxiety

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Thought Suppression

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The conscious avoidance of a thought

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Rebound Effect of Thought Processing

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The tendency of a thought to return to consciousness with greater frequency following suppression

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Dynamic Unconsciousness

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Encompasses a lifetime of hidden memories, instincts and desires and the struggle to control these forces

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Repression

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Keeps conscious thoughts in the unconscious

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Cognitive Consciousness

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Mental processes that bring forth thoughts, emotions, choices and behaviour

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Dual-Process Theories

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The theory that we have two separate processing systems. One is fast, automatic and unconscious while the other is slow, effortful and conscious

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Electrooculogram (EOG)

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An instrument that measures eye movements during sleep

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Glymphatic System

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Removes neurotoxic waste products and distributes the necessary compounds through the brain such as glucose, lipids and amino acids

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Manifest Content

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A dream’s apparent topic or superficial meaning. The raw facts/details

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Latent Content

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A dreams true and underlying meaning

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Activation-Synthesis Model

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The theory that dreams are produced as the brain makes sense of random neural activity occurring while falling asleep

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Psychoactive Drugs

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Chemicals that influence consciousness or behaviour by altering the brain’s chemical messaging system

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Drug Tolerance

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The tendency for larger drug doses to consumed overtime to achieve the same effect

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Physical Dependance

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refers to the unpleasant symptoms that come with withdrawal of a drug

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Psychological Dependance

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The desire to return to a drug regardless of the physical withdrawal symptoms

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Depressants

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Reduce the activity of the NS and have a sedative/relaxing feeling

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Expectancy Theory

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Idea that the effects of alcohol are produced by expectations of how alcohol will affect them in certain situations

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Balanced Placebo Design

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Behaviour is observed following the presence/absence of a placebo stimulus

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Alcohol Myopia

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Results when alcohol hampers attention leading to people responding in a simple way to a complex situation

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Barbiturates and Tranquilizers

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Addictive drugs such as sleeping pills, sedatives and antianxiety drug

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Stimulants

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Drugs that increase NS behaviour and heighten arousal/activity levels

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Amphetamines

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Reduces sleep, fatigue, appetite, depression as a result of increased dopamine and norepinephrine levels

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MDMA (Ectasy)

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Individuals will feel empathetic and close to those around them

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Cocaine

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Blocks the reuptake of dopamine and norepinephrine

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Narcotics

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Highly addictive drugs used to relieve pain causing a well being and relaxed feeling

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Hallucinogens

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A social interaction in which an individual makes suggestions leading to another persons subjective view on the world

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Posthypnotic Amnesia

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The failure to retrieve memories following hypnotic suggestions to forget

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Hypnotic Analgesia

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The reduction of pain through hypnosis in people who are susceptible to hypnosis

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