Psychology Ch.5 Flashcards
Awareness are sleeping, dreaming, anesthesia, and coma
Low awareness
minimal attention such as walking while you talk on the phone
Middle Awareness
Maximum attention like learning to drive and studying for the exam.
High Awareness
Learning a new skill watching an engrossing movie
Focused Awareness
Daydreaming, or letting one’s
thoughts wander
Drifting Consciousness
Thinking of other things while
exercising or driving a car
Divided consciousness
During sleep, the person is generally
unaware of external surroundings
but may respond
to certain stimuli
Sleeping and dreaming
Changes in consciousness
associated with hypnosis,
meditation, and drug use
Waking states of
altered consciousness
You go to sleep or wake up, visit
the toilet, eat, and other processes at about the same
time each day.
24-hour
(or circadian) rhythm.
Important for learning and
consolidation of memories
(REM)
is satisfied before
REM
NREM
REM decreases as you?
Age
Timmy usually is in a good mood but lately he hasn’t been getting good rest and has been lashing out and been in depressive states what might be wrong?
Deprivation
This hormone increases in our bodies when we are sleep deprived!
Increased Cortisol
72 hours without
sleep leads to?
brief
seconds-long
microsleeps!