States of Consciousness Flashcards
Awareness of yourself and your environment.
Consciousness
keep us protected from the dangers of the night
Preservation
recuperate from the wear and tear of the day
Restoration
Dreams serve an important memory-related function by sifting through the day’s experiences and tying up loose ends
Information processing
Neural activity during REM sleep provides periodic stimulation for our brain
Physiological function
dreams are the minds attempt to make sense of random neural firing in the brain as one sleeps
Activation synthesis
Dreams part of the maturation process
Dreams reflect our knowledge
Reflection of normal cognitive development
Cognitive development
a social interaction in which a hypnotist makes suggestions about perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors, and those suggestions are followed.
Hypnosis
Explained by conscious awareness, dual processing, and change blindness
during hypnosis you are manipulating our conscious awareness
our conscious awareness (attention) is extremely limited
Divided Consciousness theory
one aspect of consciousness (or attention) is shut down and not aware of the role that other parts are playing
Dual processing theory
our failure to notice changes in our environment because the conscious awareness is so narrow
Change blindness
theory that powerful social influences produce a state of hypnosis
A person’s physiological state (conscious/unconscious or attention) does not change under hypnosis
Social factors influence people to believe hypnosis will work
Social Influence theory
