Consciousness Flashcards
4 altered states of consciousness
Sleep/Dreams
Psychoactive drugs
Meditation
Hypnosis
Name the 2 dominant views on consciousness
Monitoring
Controlling
What does the monitoring view on consciousness involve
you experience what you attend to
the controlling view on consciousness involves what
Planning and initiating actions
choosing between alternatives
Sublimal perception involves what
Stimulation below individuals threshold for conscious perception
Name an example of sublimal perception
Flashed images of michael scott
Ironic Process theory involves what 2 processes
Intentional operating process
Ironic monitoring process
Intentional operating process involves what
what 3 factors is it though
Searching for mental contents to create desired mental state
effortful // conscious // interruptible
Ironic monitoring process involves what
what 3 factors is it though
Mental contents that signal the failure of mental control
“dont think of an elephant”
Automatic
Unconscious
Uninterruptible
name 5 psychoactive drugs
Sedative Hypnotics Stimulants Opiates Hallucinogens / psychedelics
Psychedelics leads to what
Altered states
What are the 2 forms of meditation
concentrative/One point mutation
Open meditation
Concentrative mechanism diminishes what
diminishes sensory input
40% of hypnotised people feel this
Altered conciousness
divided stream of consciousness
60% of hypnotised people feel this
Period of focussed attention
