Finals: Consciousness Flashcards by J Pulido

Is a sensory awareness of the environment

Consciousness

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A concept or theory that is devised in order to help make sense of our observations of a phenomenon

Construct

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Focus of one’s consciousness to a particular stimulus

Selective attention

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Knowledge of one’s own thoughts, feelings and memories without use of sensory organs

Direct inner awareness

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What did you eat for dinner yesterday?

Preconscious

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Descriptive of material that is not in awareness but can be brought into awareness by focusing one’s attention

Preconscious

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Not currently in awareness but is readily available

Preconscious

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Are unavailable to awareness under most circumstances

Unconscious

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Descriptive of ideas and feelings that are not available to awareness

Unconscious

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Allows us to avoid feelings of anxiety, guilt, or shame

Repression

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The automatic ejection of anxiety-evoking ideas, impulses, or images from awareness

Repression

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When we consciously eject unwanted mental events from awareness

Suppression

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The deliberate, or conscious, placing of certain ideas, impulses or images out of awareness

Suppression

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Cannot be experienced through sensory awareness or direct inner awareness

Nonconscious

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Growing of hair

Flow of blood in or veins

Nonconscious

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Bodily processes of which we cannot become conscious. We “recognize” it only; aware

Nonconscious

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Give the altered states of consciousness

Sleep
Meditation
Hypnotic “trance”
Distorted perceptions that accompany drugs

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Father of modern behaviorism

John Watson

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Referring to cycles that are connected with the 24-hour period of the earth’s rotation

Circadian rhythm

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Rapid low-amplitude brain waves that have been linked to feelings if relaxation

Alpha waves

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Stages of sleep 1 through 4

NREM Sleep (Non-rapid-eye-movement)

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Number of waves per second

Frequencies

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Heights; an index of strength

Amplitudes

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Rough indicators of the activity of large numbers of neurons

Brain waves

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The strength or energy if rain waves is expressed in

Volts

An electrical unit

Volts

The fifth stage; our eyes dart back and forth quickly beneath our closed lids

REM (Rapid-eye-movement)

Slow brainwaves produced during the hypnagogic state

Theta waves

The drowsy interval between waking and sleeping, characterized by brief, hallucinatory, dreamlike experiences

Hypnagogic state

String, slow brain waves usually emitted during stage 4 sleep

Delta Waves

Also called as paradoxical sleep because level of arousal is similar to waking stage

REM Sleep

The view that dreams reflect activation of cognitive activity by the reticular activating system and synthesis of this activity into a pattern by the cerebral cortex

Activation-synthesis model

A "sleep attack" when a person falls asleep suddenly and irresistibly

Narcolepsy

You can't force yourself to sleep

Insomnia

Temporary absence of cessation of breathing

Apnea

Frightening dreamlike experiences that occur during the deepest stage of NREM sleep

Sleep terrors

Occurs during REM sleep

Nightmares

Is an altered state of consciousness in which people appear to be highly suggestible and behave as if in a trance

Hypnosis

A theory that explains hypnotic events where a person acts as if he is hypnotized

Role theory

Says that response expectancies play a key role in the production of personal experiences

Response set theory

We can selectively focus our attention on one thing

Neodissociation theory

To expand inner awareness and inner harmony

Meditation

Words that intensify the meditation

Mantra

A system that provides info about bodily function

Biofeedback

Instrument that measures muscle tension

EMG (Electromyograph)

Drugs that have psychological effects such as stimulation or distortion of perceptions

Psychoactive substances

A drug that lowers the rate of activity of nervous system

Depressant

A drug that increases activity of the nervous system

Stimulant

Persistent use of substance even though it causes problems

Substance abuse

Habituation to a drug

Tolerance

Results from sudden decrease in use of drug

Abstinence syndrome

Characterized by sweating, restlessness, disorientation

Delirium tremens

Group of narcotics from opium poppy

Opiates

Similar substance to opiates but synthesized in laboratory

Opioids

Popular street drugs

Barbiturates

Used to treat kids with ADHD

Methylphenidate

Give rise to hallucinations

Hallucinogens

Dried vegetable matter of cannabis

Marijuana

Causing hallucinations, delusions, or heightened perceptions

Psychedelic

Often called "hash"; from cannabis but more potent than marijuana

Hashish

Aka "party drugs"

Ecstasy

Give depressants

Alcohol Barbiturates Opiates

Give stimulants

Cocaines Amphetamines Nicotine

Give Hallucinogens

Marijuana | LSD, Mescaline, PCP

Distorted perceptions or hallucinations that mimic the LSD "trip"

Flashbacks

A hallucinogenic drug derived from the mescal cactus

Mescaline