States and levels of awareness Flashcards
1
Q
Consciousness
A
a human awareness of stimuli
2
Q
Freud’s Topographical model of the mind
A
- 1900
- written in Interpretation of Dreams
- Divided into conscious system, preconscious system and uncinscious system
3
Q
Conscious system
A
- receives and processes information from teh outside world
- operates secondary process thinking
- cathexis stable
4
Q
Attention cathexis
A
-investment of psychic energy on a particular idea or feeling to process it consciously
5
Q
Unconscious system
A
- contains contents of censored or repressed wishes
- operates on pleasure principle
- shift of cathexis happens very often and quickly
- evident via parapraxes (freudian slips) and dreams
6
Q
Proconscious system
A
- operates between unconscious and conscious
- maintains the ‘repressive barrier’ to censor unacceptable wishes and desires
7
Q
Carl Jung
A
-categorized the unconscious into personal unconscious and collective unconscious
8
Q
Arousal
A
- physiological and psychological state of being awake/reactive to stimuli
- the reticular activating system in the brain stem is alerted along with the autonomic nervous system- flight or fight
9
Q
Chronobiology
A
-the study of biological rhythms
10
Q
Biorhythms
A
- biological processes repeat themselves
- cycles lasting 24hrs are daily rhythms e.g circadian
- cycles lasting less than a day are called ultradian (daily arousal)
- cycles lasting more than a day are infradian (menstrual)
- seasonal rhythms are called circannual rhythms
11
Q
Zeitgeibers
A
- time givers
- external time cues prompting biorhythms
- social zeitgebers are external social cues
12
Q
Suprachiasmatic nucleus
A
-internal pacemaker located in the anterior hypothalamus that regulates many biorhythms
13
Q
Sleep deprivation
A
- in early stages they have reduced arousal and perform poorly on monotonous tasks but optimally on interesting tasks
- micro-sleeps occur with more deprivation and ‘hat’ phenomenon where you feel like your head is being gripped
- further deprivation results in deleusional ideas- sleep-deprivation psychosis
- REM phases of sleep recover better than non-REM: REM rebound
14
Q
Hypnosis
A
- consciousness involving focusing attention and reduced peripheral awareness
- may be a form of imaginative role-enactment or an altered state of mind
15
Q
Suggestion
A
-instruction or suggestion of a subject into the hypnotic state
