States of Consciousness

Question 1

Consciousness

Answer 1

Consciousness is personal awareness of thoughts sensations, memories, and the external world.

Question 2

Levels Of Awareness

Answer 2

• Controlled Processes
• Automatic Processes
• Subconscious Processes
• No Awareness

Question 3

Circadian Rhythm

Answer 3

Biological processes that systematically vary over a period of about 24hrs.

Question 4

REM

Answer 4

Rapid Eye Movement

*Active sleep in which the sleepers

Question 5

NREM

Answer 5

Non Rapid Eye Movement

• Quiet Sleep
• Associated with slowing brain activity
• Divided into four stages

Question 6

REM Sleep

Answer 6

REM sleep is often referred to as “Paradoxical Sleep” REM sleep is paradoxical because it is simultaneously characterized by active eye movement and the loss of muscle movement . The suppression of voluntary muscle activity prevents the sleepers from acting out dreams.
*Dreams occur in REM sleep.

Question 7

Sleep Cycle

Answer 7

In a Typical Night, a sleeping person experiences five 90 min cycles of alternating NREM and REM Sleep.

Question 8

dual processing

Answer 8

the principle that information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks

Question 9

Selective Attention

Answer 9

the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus

Question 10

Inattentional blindness

Answer 10

Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere

Question 11

Change Blindness

Answer 11

failing to notice changes in the environment

Question 12

Cocktail Party effect

Answer 12

your ability to attend to only one voice among many. (Let another voice speak your name and your conginitive radar, operating on the mind’s other tracks, will instantly bring that voice.