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States Of Consciousness Flashcards

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Latent content

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Emotional significance and underlying meaning of the dream

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William James in consciousness

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Referred to consciousness as stream of thought

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Robert Sternberg in terms of consciousness

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Referred to consciousness as a mental Realty, consciousness serves to establish our personal identity

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Preconscious level

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Information that is available to consciousness but that is not always in consciousness

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Controlled processing

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When we are very aware of what we are doing

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Automatic processing

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When performing task mechanically such as brushing our teeth

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Sleep

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An altered state of consciousness

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Melatonin

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In neurochemical that plays a role in sleep, melatonin is released at the site of no light, so at night more melatonin is released allowing us to sleep

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Circadian rhythm

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Natural day/night rhythm a 24 hour clock

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Electroencephalogram (EEG)

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Used to measure brain waves, provides a picture of electrical activity of the brain

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Beta waves

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Visible while awake and focused

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Alpha waves

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Visible one awake but more relaxed

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Theta waves

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Occurs when we sleep

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Sleep spindles

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Appear in stage to sleep, but broken up by K complexes

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K complexes

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Large slow waves

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Stage 3 & 4 sleep

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Delta waves become visible

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REM sleep

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Rapid eye movement, the last stage of sleep, a paradoxical sleep

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States of consciousness

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Allow us to evaluate the environment into filter information from the environment through our mind, while being aware of the occurrence of this complex process

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Aserinsky & Kleitman

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Researchers that discovered that eyes move vigorously during REM sleep

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Time for each sleep cycle

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Roughly 90 minutes

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William Dement

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Discovered REM rebound

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Insomnia

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Inability to fall asleep or maintain sleep

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Narcolepsy

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Inability to stay awake, overcome by sleep attacks

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Sleep apnea

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Repeatedly stops breathing while sleeping, sudden infant death syndrome, Sid’s, can be linked to sleep apnea

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Sleepwalking/ somnambulism

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Occurs when an individual walks around sometimes talking all while sleeping

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Manifest content

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The storyline and imagery of the dream, offers insight to the unconscious process

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Latent content

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emotional significance underlying meaning of the dream

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Activation-synthesis hypothesis of dreaming

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dreams are the product of our awareness of neural activity due to sensory input

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Nightmare

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elaborate dream sequence that produces a high level of anxiety or fear for the dreamer

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Night terrors

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Characterized by screaming, crying, and jerking/lunging movements while asleep, occurs in stage 4

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Hypnosis

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an altered state of consciousness in which the hypnotized person is very relaxed and open to suggestion

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Posthypnotic suggestion

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instructions are given to people while they are hypnotized that are to be implemented after they wake

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Hilgard’s theory of the hidden obsever

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defines the neodissociative theory

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Neodissociative theory

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the mind is divided into two parts
1; obeys the hypnotist
2; remains as the hidden observer observing everything

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Review Psychoactive drugs from Lund’s lessons

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Review

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Dependence

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when an individual continues using a drug despite overarching negative consequences in order to avoid unpleasant physical and/or psychological feelings associated with not taking it- also known to as addicitoin

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Tolerance

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when increasingly larger doses are needed in order for the same effect to occur

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Withdrawal

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the process of weaning off a drug, often involves physical and psychological symptoms of a highly unpleasant nature

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