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Finals: Consciousness Flashcards

1
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Is a sensory awareness of the environment

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Consciousness

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2
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A concept or theory that is devised in order to help make sense of our observations of a phenomenon

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Construct

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3
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Focus of one’s consciousness to a particular stimulus

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Selective attention

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4
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Knowledge of one’s own thoughts, feelings and memories without use of sensory organs

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Direct inner awareness

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5
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What did you eat for dinner yesterday?

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Preconscious

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6
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Descriptive of material that is not in awareness but can be brought into awareness by focusing one’s attention

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Preconscious

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7
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Not currently in awareness but is readily available

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Preconscious

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8
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Are unavailable to awareness under most circumstances

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Unconscious

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9
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Descriptive of ideas and feelings that are not available to awareness

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Unconscious

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10
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Allows us to avoid feelings of anxiety, guilt, or shame

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Repression

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11
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The automatic ejection of anxiety-evoking ideas, impulses, or images from awareness

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Repression

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12
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When we consciously eject unwanted mental events from awareness

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Suppression

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13
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The deliberate, or conscious, placing of certain ideas, impulses or images out of awareness

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Suppression

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14
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Cannot be experienced through sensory awareness or direct inner awareness

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Nonconscious

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15
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Growing of hair

Flow of blood in or veins

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Nonconscious

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16
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Bodily processes of which we cannot become conscious. We “recognize” it only; aware

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Nonconscious

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17
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Give the altered states of consciousness

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Sleep
Meditation
Hypnotic “trance”
Distorted perceptions that accompany drugs

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18
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Father of modern behaviorism

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John Watson

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19
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Referring to cycles that are connected with the 24-hour period of the earth’s rotation

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Circadian rhythm

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20
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Rapid low-amplitude brain waves that have been linked to feelings if relaxation

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Alpha waves

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21
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Stages of sleep 1 through 4

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NREM Sleep (Non-rapid-eye-movement)

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22
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Number of waves per second

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Frequencies

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23
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Heights; an index of strength

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Amplitudes

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24
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Rough indicators of the activity of large numbers of neurons

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Brain waves

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25
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The strength or energy if rain waves is expressed in

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Volts

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26
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An electrical unit

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Volts

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27
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The fifth stage; our eyes dart back and forth quickly beneath our closed lids

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REM (Rapid-eye-movement)

28
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Slow brainwaves produced during the hypnagogic state

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Theta waves

29
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The drowsy interval between waking and sleeping, characterized by brief, hallucinatory, dreamlike experiences

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Hypnagogic state

30
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String, slow brain waves usually emitted during stage 4 sleep

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Delta Waves

31
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Also called as paradoxical sleep because level of arousal is similar to waking stage

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REM Sleep

32
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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

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Activation-synthesis model

33
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A “sleep attack” when a person falls asleep suddenly and irresistibly

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Narcolepsy

34
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You can’t force yourself to sleep

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Insomnia

35
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Temporary absence of cessation of breathing

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Apnea

36
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Frightening dreamlike experiences that occur during the deepest stage of NREM sleep

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Sleep terrors

37
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Occurs during REM sleep

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Nightmares

38
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Is an altered state of consciousness in which people appear to be highly suggestible and behave as if in a trance

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Hypnosis

39
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A theory that explains hypnotic events where a person acts as if he is hypnotized

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Role theory

40
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Says that response expectancies play a key role in the production of personal experiences

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Response set theory

41
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We can selectively focus our attention on one thing

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Neodissociation theory

42
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To expand inner awareness and inner harmony

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Meditation

43
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Words that intensify the meditation

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Mantra

44
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A system that provides info about bodily function

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Biofeedback

45
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Instrument that measures muscle tension

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EMG (Electromyograph)

46
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Drugs that have psychological effects such as stimulation or distortion of perceptions

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Psychoactive substances

47
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A drug that lowers the rate of activity of nervous system

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Depressant

48
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A drug that increases activity of the nervous system

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Stimulant

49
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Persistent use of substance even though it causes problems

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Substance abuse

50
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Habituation to a drug

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Tolerance

51
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Results from sudden decrease in use of drug

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Abstinence syndrome

52
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Characterized by sweating, restlessness, disorientation

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Delirium tremens

53
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Group of narcotics from opium poppy

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Opiates

54
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Similar substance to opiates but synthesized in laboratory

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Opioids

55
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Popular street drugs

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Barbiturates

56
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Used to treat kids with ADHD

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Methylphenidate

57
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Give rise to hallucinations

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Hallucinogens

58
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Dried vegetable matter of cannabis

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Marijuana

59
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Causing hallucinations, delusions, or heightened perceptions

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Psychedelic

60
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Often called “hash”; from cannabis but more potent than marijuana

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Hashish

61
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Aka “party drugs”

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Ecstasy

62
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Give depressants

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Alcohol
Barbiturates
Opiates

63
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Give stimulants

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Cocaines
Amphetamines
Nicotine

64
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Give Hallucinogens

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Marijuana

LSD, Mescaline, PCP

65
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Distorted perceptions or hallucinations that mimic the LSD “trip”

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Flashbacks

66
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A hallucinogenic drug derived from the mescal cactus

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Mescaline

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