Consciousness

Question 1

Normal waking consciousness (NWC)

Answer 1

Awareness of your thoughts, feelings and behaviours including internal events (feeling hungry, hot or cold) and external events (watching people write something).

Question 2

Altered state of consciousness (ASC)

Answer 2

Any state that is characteristically different from ‘normal waking consciousness’ in terms of awareness, thoughts, feelings and behaviours.
These can be naturally occurring or induced.
(hypnosis, coma, asleep, under anaesthetic or under the influence of drugs/alcohol).

Question 3

State of consciousness

Answer 3

An individuals level of awareness of internal and external stimuli at any given moment.

Question 4

Subjective data

Answer 4

Data collected through personal observations, interpretations, emotions and judgment.

Question 5

Objective data

Answer 5

Measurement of behaviour collected under controlled conditions which allow data to be directly observed or measured.

Question 6

Automatic processes

Answer 6

Actions that require little conciseness, awareness or mental effort and do not interfere with performance on other activities.
e.g writing, walking, eating

Question 7

Controlled processes

Answer 7

Actions that require a high levels of conscious awareness, attention or mantel effort.
e.g maths equation, learning to drive, cooking

Question 8

Selective attention

Answer 8

Attending to a particular stimulus while ignoring others.

It requires a high level of awareness.

Question 9

Divided attention

Answer 9

When an individual simultaneously focuses on two or more stimuli or simultaneously undertake two or more tasks.

Question 10

EOG (electrooculography)

Answer 10

Device that detects, amplifies and records electrical activity in the muscles of the eye.
*Useful in determining stages of sleep (NREM or REM).

Question 11

EMG (electromyograph)

Answer 11

Device that detects, amplifies and records the electric activity of the muscles.
*Changes in electric activity in muscles indicates states of consciousness

Question 12

EEG (electroencephalogram)

Answer 12

Device that detects, amplifies and records electric activity in the form of the brain waves.
*

Question 13

Continuum of consciousness

Answer 13

1. Focused attention
2. Normal wakefulness
3. Daydreaming
4. Meditation
5. Hypnosis
6. Sleep
7. Anaesthetic
8. Coma

Question 14

Phycological

Answer 14

L, level of awareness 
C, content limitations
C, cognitive distortion 
A, attention 
P, perceptual distortion 
E, emotional awareness 
S, self control 
T, time orientation

Question 15

Physiological

Answer 15

EOG, EMG, EEG

• Heart rate
• Body temp
• Galvanic skin response

Question 16

DARE

Answer 16

D, detect
A, amplify
R, report
E, electrical