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C. PSY101 (MIDTERM) > Consciousness And Its Altered State > Flashcards

Consciousness And Its Altered State Flashcards

1
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Persons awareness of the sensations thoughts and feelings that he she is experiencing at a particular moment

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Consciousness

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Perception that different from consciousness

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Altered state

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People cannot directly know what reality is to them nor can enter directly into their experiences

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Subjective and private

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A person dream in and out into various states throughout the day

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Dynamic (ever changing)

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No matter what once awareness is focused either watching the sunset or the itch on his back is only him who is aware of it

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Self-reflective and central to one’s sense of the self

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One systematically carries out mental activity

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Active state

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Thoughts and images come to a person who has more spontaneously, like daydream or drift from one’s thought to another

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Passive state

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Can be a reliable tool to ease pains, ending one’s addiction and a psychological therapy for law enforcement

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Hypnosis

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9
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Learn technique for focusing attention that brings about an altered state of consciousness

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Meditation

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A repetition of sound, words, or syllables over and over

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Mantra

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Separation of a person’s awareness from everything he is focusing on; DISCONNECTION ON YOURSELF

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Dissociation

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Has less voluntary control over his action or behavior; with connection to the greater power

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Trance state

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Time of quiet tranquility as they put aside the tensions of the day and spend the night in undisturbed slumber

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Sleep

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14
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The measurement of electrical activity within the brain

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Electroencephalogram

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15
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images, thoughts and feelings one experiences while asleep

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Dreams

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Stages of sleep

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ALPHA STAGE: before stage 1
STAGE 1: Lightest sleep
STAGE 2: Real sleep
STAGE 3: Deep sleep
STAGE 4: Awake & Alert stage

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17
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Who expounded unconscious wishful fulfillment

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Sigmund Freud

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18
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Dreams are conflicts or repressed desires which are relegated to the unconscious mind; your wish that won’t fulfilled

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Unconscious wishful fulfillment

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19
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Dreams have no meaning instead it helps one to erase unnecessary information collected during the day; dream inorder to forget

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Reverse learning theory

20
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Dreams allow information necessary for one survival to be delegated; daily survival/reprocessed and reconsidered

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Survival theory

21
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Dreams are the result of RANDOM ELECTRICAL ENERGY exciting memories found in different parts of the brain which the brain waves into logical storyline

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Activation systems theory

22
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Who consider five sleeping disorders

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Feist and Rosenberg

23
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Taking more than 20 minutes to fall asleep or not rested after a night sleep for two or more consecutive weeks

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Insomnia

24
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Sleep difficulty due to temporary blockage of the air passage

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Sleep apnea

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This happens when a person’s get out of bed during sleep usually during the 3rd sleep cycle and engaged in activities that generally happens during wakefulness

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Sleepwalking

26
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Excessive daytime sleepiness

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Narcolepsy

27
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Sleeps more than 10 hours a day for two weeks or more

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Hypersomnia

28
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Biological process that happens repeatedly more or less 24 hour occurrence

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Circadian rhythm

29
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Long frightening dreams that when awaken the person is very scared

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Nightmare

30
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Drugs that affect a person’s emotions, perceptions and behavior

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Psychoactive drugs

31
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Drug addiction which is formally called

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Substance dependence

32
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Difficult behavior to modify or treat even under extreme treatment

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Addiction

33
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Substances that speed up psychological and mental processes; increase arousal of CNS

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Stimulants

34
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Stimulant usually found in coffee and soft drinks

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Caffeine

35
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Natural brain chemical called

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Adenosine

36
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Stimulant found in cigarettes

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Nicotine

37
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An illegal drug which leads to serious problems

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Cocaine

38
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Cocaine produces the “high” through the neurotransmitter called

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Dopamine

39
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Have to restrain the nervous system causing the neurons to work slowly

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Depressants

40
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most commonly present in generally used by some people than any other drugs

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Alcohol

41
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Drugs that induce relaxation and relieve pain and anxieties

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Narcotics

42
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Used medically to ease pain

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Morphine

43
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Illegal but still widely used

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Heroin

44
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A chemical that satisfies the psychological cravings for heroin without inducing the “high” that goes with the heroin

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Methadone

45
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A drug that can produce hallucinogen or changed perceptual process or hallucination

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Hallucinogens : Psychedelic drugs

46
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Most popular hallucinogen which is widely used nowadays

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Marijuana

47
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Known as a rave drugs because it is used in night clubs and rave parties

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Ecstasy

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