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Refers to wide range of experiences from being acutely aware and alert to being totally unaware and unresponsive

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Continuum of consciousness

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Refers to different levels of awareness of one’s thoughts and feelings

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Consciousness

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Activities that require full awareness alertness and concentration to reach some Goal

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Control of processes

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Activities that require little awareness take minimal attention and do not interfere with other ongoing activities

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Automatic process

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Activity that requires low level of awareness often occurs during automatic processes and involves fantasizing or dreaming while awake

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Daydreaming

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Results from using any number of procedures such as meditation psychoactive drugs hypnosis or sleep deprivation to produce an awareness that differs from normal consciousness

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Altered states

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Consist of five stages that involve different levels of awareness consciousness and responsiveness

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Sleep

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Unique state of consciousness in which we are asleep but experience a variety of astonishing visual auditory and tactile images often connected in strange ways and often in color

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Dreaming

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1)Freds theory when we are faced with very threatening wishes or desires especially if they are sexual or aggressive 2)defense self-esteem by placing these thoughts in the unconscious 3)cannot voluntary recall unconscious thoughts

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Unconscious and implicit memory

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Learning without awareness.

Occurs in emotional situations or in acquiring habits

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Implicit or non-declarative memory

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Can result from disease drama I’ll blow to the head or general medication Anastasia

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Unconscious

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Biological clocks are internal timing devices that are genetically set to regulate various psychological responses for different periods of time

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Biological clocks

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Refers to a biological clock that is genetically programmed to regulate psychological responses within the time period of about 24 hours

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Circadian rhythm

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Part of Hypothalamus
Lies in the lower middle of the brain
Regulates sleep wake cycle
Highly responsive to change and light

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Spurchiasmtic nucleus

Location of the biological clocks

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Can be started stopped like a stopwatch
Gauges and passage of seconds minutes or hours
Helps creatures time their movements such as knowing when to start or stop doing some activities
Located in the basal ganglia

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Intervale timing clock

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Midnight snack clock
Regulates eating patterns in people and animals
Might be responsible for late night eating
Obese people might have an abnormality in their clock

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Food and entrainable circadian clock

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Accidents ,jet leg setting clock melatonin

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Circadian problems and treatments

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  • Distinctive changes in electrical activity of the brain

- accompanying psychological responses of the body that occurs as you pass through different phases of sleep

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Stages of sleep

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Feeling of being relaxed and drowsy usually with the eyes closed

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alpha stage

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  • Spend approximately 80% of your sleep time
  • divided into four stages 123 and. 4 -identified by particular pattern of brain waves and psychological response
  • begin with stage one and gradually after stages 23 and four
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Non REM sleep

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  • Transition from wakefulness to sleep that last one to seven minutes
  • gradually lose responsiveness to stimuli and experience drifting thoughts and images
  • presence of the theta ways
  • non rem sleep
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Non REM sleep sleep stage one

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  • Beginning of what we know as sleep
  • high-frequency bursts of brain activity called sleep spindle
  • muscle tension body temperature and heart rate gradually decrease
  • more difficult to be awake
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Stage two

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  • also called slow wave or Delta sleep
  • waves a very high amplitude and very low frequency delta waves
  • stage four is often considered deepest stage of sleep
  • most difficult to be awakened from
  • heart rate respiration temperature and blood flow to the brain are reduced
  • marked secretion of growth hormone GH
  • Controls levels of metabolism physical growth and brain development
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Non-REM sleep stages three and four

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  • Makes up the remaining 20% of your sleep time
  • stands for rapid eye movement
  • eyes move rapidly back-and-forth behind close lid
  • pass into REM sleep about five or six times throughout the night about 30 to 90 minutes between periods
  • ram sleep remains for about 15 to 45 minutes then passes into Non REM sleep
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REM sleep

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  • Activities during the day to deplete the key factors in our brain or body that are replenished or repaired by sleep
  • primarily a restorative process
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Repair theory

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Censor that protects us from realizing threatening and unconscious desires or wishes especially those involving sex or aggression
-sensor that protect us from threatening thoughts by transforming our secret guilt ridden and anxiety provoking desires into Harmless symbols that appear in our dreams and do not disturb her sleep or conscious thoughts

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Theorys of dream interpretation Freuds Theories dream interpretation

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Activities during day deplete key factors in our brain or body that I have replenished or repaired by sleep
-primarily a restorative process

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Repair theory

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Sleep involved because it prevented early humans and animals from wasting energy and exposing themselves to the dangers of nocturnal predators

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Adaptive theory

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Dreams reflect the same thoughts fears concerns problems and emotions that we have when Awake

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Extensions of waking life theory

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  • Dreaming occurs because brain areas that provide reasoned Cognitive control during the waking state are shutdown
  • sleeping brain is stimulated by different chemical and neutral influences that result in hallucinations delusions high emotions and Bizarre thought patterns that we call dreams
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Activation synthesis theory

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What do people dream about

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Several characters

  • involved motion
  • take place indoors more often than out
  • visual sensation but rarely sensations of taste smell her pain
  • seems there may include flying or falling without injury
  • maybe recurrent dreams of being threatened pursued are trying to hide
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What are some typical dreams

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Involving motions of anxiety or fear rather than joy or happiness

  • rarely involves sexual encounters and are almost never about sexual intercourse
  • rarely can we control or dream about something we intend to dream about
  • dreams usually have visual imaginary an error in color in sighted
  • blind people from birth dream and tactile a factory or gustatory taste not visual
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What are some non-drug treatments

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-Go to bed only when sleepy
-put light out immediately
-do not read or watch TV
-if not asleep in 20 minutes get out of bed and relax
-repeat step four as often as required
-set alarm for same time each morning
-do not nap during the day
-follow program rigidly for several weeks
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Drug treatment. -reduce anxiety ,worry and stress

  • effective in moderate dosages in short-term 2 to 4 weeks treatment
  • how long do use is higher doses may lead to depend
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Benzodiazepines

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Rapidly becoming popular, fast acting ,reduced daytime drowsiness , fewer Cognitive side effects

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Non benzodiazepines

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Repeated. Periods of sleep when a person stops breathing for 10 seconds or longer , may repeatedly stop breathing momentarily awake and then resume sleep, results in Insomnia and exhaustion during the day

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Sleep apnea

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Chronic disorder that is marked by excessive sleepness , form of sleep attacks the short periods of sleep throughout the day , accompanied by brief periods of REM sleep and loss of muscle control cataplexy , triggered by emotional change

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NarColepsy

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  • Occur in stage III and four Delta sleep
  • frightening experiences that I have to start with a piercing scream
  • followed by a sudden awakening in a fearful state with rapid breathing and increased heart rate
  • Usually no memory of experience in the morning
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Night terrors

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  • Occurred during REM sleep
  • very frightening and anxiety producing images occur
  • involve great danger upon wakening person can describe nightmare in great detail
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Nightmares

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  • Occurs in stages three and four Delta sleep
  • getting up and walking while literally sound asleep
  • have poor coordination
  • clumsy Bucky and avoid objects
  • can engage in limited conversations
  • no memory of sleepwalking
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Sleepwalking

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