Finals: Consciousness Flashcards
Is a sensory awareness of the environment
Consciousness
A concept or theory that is devised in order to help make sense of our observations of a phenomenon
Construct
Focus of one’s consciousness to a particular stimulus
Selective attention
Knowledge of one’s own thoughts, feelings and memories without use of sensory organs
Direct inner awareness
What did you eat for dinner yesterday?
Preconscious
Descriptive of material that is not in awareness but can be brought into awareness by focusing one’s attention
Preconscious
Not currently in awareness but is readily available
Preconscious
Are unavailable to awareness under most circumstances
Unconscious
Descriptive of ideas and feelings that are not available to awareness
Unconscious
Allows us to avoid feelings of anxiety, guilt, or shame
Repression
The automatic ejection of anxiety-evoking ideas, impulses, or images from awareness
Repression
When we consciously eject unwanted mental events from awareness
Suppression
The deliberate, or conscious, placing of certain ideas, impulses or images out of awareness
Suppression
Cannot be experienced through sensory awareness or direct inner awareness
Nonconscious
Growing of hair
Flow of blood in or veins
Nonconscious
Bodily processes of which we cannot become conscious. We “recognize” it only; aware
Nonconscious
Give the altered states of consciousness
Sleep
Meditation
Hypnotic “trance”
Distorted perceptions that accompany drugs
Father of modern behaviorism
John Watson
Referring to cycles that are connected with the 24-hour period of the earth’s rotation
Circadian rhythm
Rapid low-amplitude brain waves that have been linked to feelings if relaxation
Alpha waves
Stages of sleep 1 through 4
NREM Sleep (Non-rapid-eye-movement)
Number of waves per second
Frequencies
Heights; an index of strength
Amplitudes
Rough indicators of the activity of large numbers of neurons
Brain waves
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
