states of consciousness Flashcards
REM
Rapid eye movement (when dreaming)
Sleep cycle stages
-wake
-NREM 1
-NREM 2
-NREM 3
-REM
NREM 3
‘deepest sleep, when body repairs/grows
Circadian rhythm
Internal biological clock
-ex thrown off when jet lagged
Insomnia
Can’t go and /or stay asleep
Sleep apnea
Muscles weaken and keep waking up for air (nr3)
Bed wetting
NR3 (serial killers)
Sleepwalking
(Sonambulism) mostly little kids has a genetic component
Night terrors
NR3
Why do we dream theories?
- memory consolitation
- Freud
- Activation of pons synthesizing into dreams
- helps strengthen neuralconnections
Sigmound Freud
- late 1800-1900s Austrian physcologyst
-first a doctor
Manifest content
the rememberd story line from dream
latent content
hidden meaning behind something (wished and desires that are unattainable)
famous Freud quote abt unconscious
“your dreams are the royal road to the unconscious”
famous Freud quote abt unconscious
“your dreams are the royal road to the unconscious”
5 physcosexual stages
- oral
- anal
- phallic
- latent
- genital
oral stage
stuff in mouth instead of mother’s breast (passifyer) (babies 0-3)
Anal stage
learning to control bladder (kids are overly neat)
phallic stage
1st sexual feelings (get over it by identifying with the parent of the same gender)
Oedipus complex
boy wants to kill his dad and marry his mother
Electra complex
girl wants to kill mother ad marry father
latent stage
when you are little and don’t have sexual feelings (6-puberty)
genital stage
start getting sexual urges (puberty-)
3 parts of the personality (Freudian Theory)
- Ego
- Super Ego
- ID
Ego
mediates conflicts between super ego and ID
Super Ego
parents, teacher voices and expectation on what you should do
ID
what you want to do (desires)
fixation
stuck in a stage of the psychosexual stages
conscious processing
a mental operation of which a person is explicitly aware and often in control
unconscious processing
processing something without the person’s awarness
seasonal affective disorder
mood disorder that comes at the same time every year based on the weather and amount of sunlight
pineal gland
receives information about the light/dark state of surroundings
Effects of sleep deprivation
high blood pressure, diabetes, heart attack, heart failure or stroke
narcolepsy
sudden attacks of sleep throughout the day (can’t stay awake)
neo-freudians
freud’s students
- Jung, Adler. K. Horney
Jung
collective unconscious, inherit dreams
Adler
social motives rather than sexual motives and conscious mind rather than unconscious
K. horney
women don’t have penis envy, maybe men had womb envy (men don’t get to bond with their kids as much)
paradoxical sleep
paralyzed during REM
sleep spindles
NREM2 burst of brain activity
growth hormone
hapens in NREM 3
identification
sense of being male or female (phallic stage)
delta brainwave
deep sleep
theta brainwave
asleep but not deep
beta brainwave
wide awake
alpha brainwave
calming down (later in the evening/meditating)
somnambulism
sleepwalking
