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1
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consciousness

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awareness of the environment/world around you

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1st main function of consciousness

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  1. consciousness restricts our attention
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2nd main function of consciousness

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  1. provides us with a mental meeting place where sensation combines with memory, emotion, and motives
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3rd main function of consciousness

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allows us to create a mental model of the world/an object

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conscious

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part of the mind that holds what you are aware of

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precociousness

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ordinary memory

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unconscious

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part of the mind was not directly accessible to awareness
-hidden, unretrievable

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biological rhythms

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psychological fluctuations that affect body temp, blood pressure, and effectiveness of medication
-if you are tired, hungry, thirsty

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circadian rhythms

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occur once during 24 hour period
ex: sleep cycle

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hypothalamus

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control center for our 24 hour rhythm of sleep

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why do we sleep

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body needs to recharge and heal

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stage 1 of sleep

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lightest stage of sleep, 5-10 min

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stage 2 of sleep

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wave-burst called spindles are common breathing, brain waves, heart beat go down

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stage 3 of sleep

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sleep walking and talking
delta sleep
30 min

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rem

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dream stage
paradoxical sleep (muscles relaxed like paralyzed)

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16
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sleep debt

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after not getting enough sleep your body will carry through the day

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17
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rem rebound

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gaining back lost hours of sleep

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18
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insomnia

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reoccurring problems falling or staying asleep

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sleep apnea

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sleep disorder that forces a person to stop breathing while sleeping

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20
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narcolepsy

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uncontrollable sleep disorder

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somnambulism

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sleepwalking
can walk, talk, but no memory

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22
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night terror

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high alertness and appearance of being terrified

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myoclonus

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movement or flinch that occurs in stage 1 or 2 of sleep

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24
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2 main functions of dreams

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  1. guard conscious
  2. serve a source for wish fulfillment
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manifest content
dreams storyline
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latent content
symbolic meaning
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negative emotional content
8 out of 10 dreams have negative content
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failure dream
reoccurring dream of falling, being attacked, and rejected
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sexual
men: 1 in 10 women: 1 in 30
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information processing
the memory-related function of sorting through the day's experience
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AWAKE physiological/restorative function
neural activity during rem sleep which provides brain stimulation or growth
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ASLEEP activation synthesis
makes sense of random neural firing in parts of our brain
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cognitive
dreams are the embodiment of thing
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hypnosis
disassociation split between level of consciousness, hypnosis disassociates the physical stimulus of pain from the emotional suffering that defines our experience of pain
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selected attention
get caught up in the moment and do not feel the pain
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psychoactive drug
a chemical substance that alters perception and mood
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physical dependence
psychological need for drug unpleasant withdrawal
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psychological dependence
need to use a drug to relieve negative emotion
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depressant
drug that reduces neural activity/slows down body function alcohol, opiates
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stimulus
drugs that excite neural activity/speed up body function caffeine, nicotine, cocaine
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halluciogens
drugs that distort perceptions LSD
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ecstasy (MDMA)
synthetic stimulant and mild hallucinogen, short and long-term effect
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memory
system that encodes, stores, and retrieves information
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information-processing model
the brain takes meaningless information and turns it into patterns
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encoding
modification of information to fit the preferred format for the memory system
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eleboration
require extra encoding effort to make the information useful -ex: needing to study before a test
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visual encoding
encoding of picture image
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automatic processing
unconscious encoding of incidental information -space, time, frequency, word meaning, reading backward
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effortful processing
requires attention and conscious effort
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rehearsal
conscious repetition of information; maintaining info
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sensory memory
no capacity/ no duration -sight, sound, smell
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storage
retaining info
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capacity
7(+/-2)
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duration
holds info for 20 seconds
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chucking
organizing items into familiar manageable units ex: 1776149218121941 (1776)(1492)(1812)(1941)
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maintenance rehearsal
saying over and over to help refresh memory like looking over notes and vocab before a test
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flashbulb memory
can remember a memory with the same emotions and feelings as when it first happened 20 years ago
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engram
long term memory
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retrieval
locating and recovering information from memory
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eidetic imagery
photographic memory
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amnesia
complete memory loss
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retrograde amnesia
inability to remember previous memories after an accident
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anterograde amnesia
inability to form memories from new material
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retrieval clues
search term we use to activate memory like saying it's on the tip of my tongue
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recall
a retrieval method in which one mus product previously presented material ex: police sketch of a suspect
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recongintion
retrieval method in which one must identify into that's provided that has previously presented ex: multiple choice test
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priming
quick association that leads to recall of memory
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context effect
location and condition might trigger memories
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mood
when you are in a good mood you remember more
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schemas
understanding of specific setting
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decay theory
memories gradually fade in strength if haven't thought of them in a while
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encoding failure
forgetting things like where you put your keys or phone
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proactive interference
old acting with new
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retractive memory
new acting with old
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misattribution
memory fault occurs when memories are retired but are associated with place and time
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suggestibility
process of memory distortion as the result of deliberate or inadvertent suggestion
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bias
influence of person's beliefs and attitude
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expectancy bias
what you expect to happen
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self consistancy
what should have happened
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persistence
memory problem where unwanted memories cannot be put out of our mind
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transcience
prevent memory overload
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blocking
focus on task
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absent
ability to shift attention
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misattribution
focus on meaning rather than detail
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persistence
remember emotional memories
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Define memory
Persistance of learning over time. Involves encoding, storage, retrieval of info

DC Psych Test 1 (4 decks)

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