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What is consciousness

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Our moment to moment awareness of ourselves and our environment

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What is selective attention

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The process that focuses awareness on some stimuli to the exclusion of others

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What do you do in self report measures

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Ask people to describe their inner experiences

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What do you do in behavioural measures

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Record performances on special tasks

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What do you do in psychological measures

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Establish correspondence between bodily processes and mental states

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What does the Freudian viewpoint say the conscious mind is

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Thoughts and perceptions of which we are currently aware

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What does the Freudian viewpoint say preconscious mental events are

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Outside current awareness but easily recalled under certain conditions

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What does the Freudian viewpoint say unconscious events are

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Cannot be brought into consciousness under ordinary circumstances

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What is controlled processing

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Conscious use of attention and effort

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What is automatic processing

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Activities that can be performed without conscious awareness or effort

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What is divided attention

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The capacity to attend to and perform more than one activity at the same time

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What is blindsight

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Reported blindness in part of the visual field

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What is priming

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Exposure to a stimulus influences how you subsequently respond to that same or another stimulus

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What are beta waves

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Pattern of waves that are present when you are awake and alert

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What are alpha waves

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Patterns of waves that are present when you are feeling relaxed and drowsy

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What happens in the first stage of sleep

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Light slee, easily awakened

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What happens in stage 2 of sleep

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Deep sleep characterised by sleep spindles

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What happens in stage 3 of sleep

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Regular appearance of slow and large delta waves

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What happens in stage 4 of sleep

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Deepest level of sleep during which delta waves dominate the EEG pattern

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What are the characteristics of REM sleep

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Rapid eye movements, high arousal and frequent dreaming

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What is REM sleep paralysis

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An inability to move muscles during REM sleep

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What occurs in paradoxical sleep

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Body is highly aroused, but very little movement

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What is the hypnagogic state

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The transitional state from wakefulness through early stage 2 sleep

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What is wish fulfilment

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The gratification of our unconscious desires and needs

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What is manifest content

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The surface story that the dreamed reports

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What is latent content

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The dreams disguised psychological meaning

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What is dream work

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The process by which a dreams latent content is transformed into the manifest content

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What does the activation synthesis theory state

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Dreams do not serve any particular function - they are merely a by-product of REM neural activity

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What are problem solving dream models

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Dreams aren’t constrained by reality so can help us find creative solutions to our problems and ongoing concerns

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What are cognitive process dream theories

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Focus on the process of how we dream and propose that dreaming and waking thought are produced by the same mental system in the brain

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What is fantasy prone personality

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Individuals who often live in a vivid fantasy world that they control

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What is hypnosis

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A state of heightened suggestibility in which some people are able to experience imagined situations as if they were real

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What is hypnotic induction

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The process by which one person leads another person into hypnosis

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What do hypnotic suggestibility scales do

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Contain a standard series of pass fail suggestions that are read to a subject after a hypnotic induction

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What do dissociation theories say

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View hypnosis as an altered state involving a division of consciousness

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What do social cognitive theories state

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Hypnotic experiences result from expectations of people who are motivated to take on the role of being hypnotised

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