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Metacognition

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Thinking about thinking

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Awareness

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Subjective state of being conscious of what’s going on

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SoC

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Term used by William James to describe the mind as a continuous flow of sensations, images, thoughts, and feelings

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Stream with fish comparison

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Our mind is a stream with fish, specific thoughts are the fish, consciousness is the fish with water along with plants, rocks, ect

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Theory of mind

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An individual’s understanding that they and others think, feel, perceive, and have private expiriences (usually accepted around age 4)

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Lower level consciousness

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Auto processing requiring little attention (daydreaming)

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Higher level consciousness

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Controlled processing (most alert state of consciousness)

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Reticular activating system

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Network of structures including brain stem, medulla, and thalamus. Involved with the expirience of arousal and engagement with the environment

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Process of the RAS

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new sensory info stimulates RAS, which then relays the pressure of some kind of stimulation to various receiving areas of the cerebral cortex, the alerted cortex is then better able to deal with/process specific incoming info

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Low/no awareness

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Unconscious thoughts, response without realizing stimulus

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Subconscious

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Happens during sleep & wake, low awareness of stimulus

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Altered state

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Produced by drugs, trauma, fatigue, hypnosis, sensory deprivation

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Controlled processing

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Active focusing of attention & efforts towards a goal (involves prefrontal cortex and interrupts other mental activities. It’s slower than automatic processing)

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Automatic processing

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Little attention required, activities that seem to take no thought, doesn’t interfere with other ongoing activities

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Executive function

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Complex cognitive process including thinking, planning, and problem solving

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What is sleep?

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Reversible loss of consciousness

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Circadian rhythms

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Sleep/wake, body temp, blood sugar

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SCN

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Suprachiasmatic nucleus

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Hypnic jerk

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Muscles involuntarily twitching/spasms

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Alpha waves

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Awake

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Stage 2 sleep/N2

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Spindles (bursts of activity) not consciously aware of surroundings

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Stage 4 sleep/N3

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Delta waves > 50%, most difficult to wake, bedwetting, sleepwalking, sleeptalking

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REM sleep

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Eye movement phase

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BATS Drink Blood

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Beta- awake
Alpha- drowsy/stage 1
Theta- stage 2/N1
Sleep spindles- stage 2/n2
Delta- stages 3&4/deep sleep/ N2
Beta- REM/R

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Stage 1 sleep/N1

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Hypnic jerks, feeling of falling (around 10 mins)

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Stage 3 sleep/N3

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Delta waves < 50%

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60% of sleeping

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Light sleep

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20% of sleeping

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Deep sleep

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stage 5 of sleeping

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REM sleep: active stage, vivid dreams

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REM sleep begins/ends with

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begins in increase in ACH, ends with increase in serotonin & norepinephrine

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Evolutionary considerations

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Predators vs prey

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energy conservation

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don’t burn as many calories while sleeping

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brain plasticity

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brain changes as a result of experience

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freuds theory on dreaming

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manifest content (literal) vs latent content (symbolic)

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restorative process/memory consolidation

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slows the breakdown of proteins

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Cognitive theory of dreaming

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the structure of how we envision ourselves/our lives

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activation synthesis theory

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making sense of neurological activity during sleep

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hobson 5 characteristics

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Illogical content, intense emotions, acceptance of strange content, strange sensory experiences, difficulty remembering dream content

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sleep apnea

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Interrupted breathing when sleeping (causes- central: brain forgets to let you breathe, obstructive: throat muscles relax-air complex: both)

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nightmares

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disagreeable imagery with little emotional response from dreamer

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night terror

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first 3-4hrs during non-rem sleep (symptoms- kicking, sweating, tensing of muscles)

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sleep paralysis

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occurs in blended state when brain is awake, but body is not

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synthesis theory

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dreaming happens when cerebral cortex synthesizes neural signals generated from lower brain activity

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