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Unit 4: State Of Consciousness Flashcards

1
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Consciousness

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Our awareness of ourselves and our environment

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Consciousness level

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The mental events that you are aware of at a certain moment

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Non conscious level

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Mental activity that is inaccessible conscious awareness

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Non conscious level example

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Blood pressure, heartbeat, breathing, hormones

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Preconscious level

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Mental activity that is not currently conscious but we can easily become conscious of it

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Preconscious level example

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Best friend’s name

Basically memory

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Unconscious level

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Mental activity that influences consciousness but is not conscious

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What concept is unconscious level

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Freudian concept

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Subconscious level

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Cognitive process where information falls below absolute threshold

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Dualism is basically

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Saying mind and body are 2 district entities that interact

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Dualism

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The mind is non physical and can exist apart from the physical body

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Dualism supported by

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Philosophers including Renee Descartes and Socrates

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Monism another word

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Materialism

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Monism

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Mind and body are different aspects of the same thing

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Brain is physical entity and the mind is what the brain does

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Monism

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Monism is basically that

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Mind and body cannot be separated, without bodies we are nobodies

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Monism supported by philosophers like

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Thomas Hobbes

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Near death experiences

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Altered state of consciousness- reported after a close brush with death

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When I think about near death experiences

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Moving towards white light

Series of memories flashing

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How dualism and monism explains near death experiences

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Dualism: mind is going to a higher place

Monism: experience of brain shutting down

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Fantasy prone personality

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Someone who imagines and re all’s experiences with lifelike situations and spends time fantasizing.
Women do this more

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How daydreaming is helpful

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Helps prepare us for future events

Serves as a substitute for impulsive behavior (day dream because if not happen in real life)

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Biological Rhythms: annual cycles

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Yearly

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Infradian Rhythms example and time

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Menstruation cycle: longer than24 hours

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Ultradian rhythms

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More than once a day, like sleep stage, apatite, body temperature, and fluctuation

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Circadian rhythm influenced by

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Sunlight and darkness

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Circadian rhythms includes

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Sleep and wakefulness

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Circadian Rhythm in the morning

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Light triggers the suprachiasmatic nucleus to decrease melatonin from the pineal gland

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Circadian Rhythm in the evening

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Fading light triggers the suprachiasmatic nucleus to increase melatonin.

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Suprachiasmatic nucleus

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In the hypothalamus: regulation of physiological circadian rhythms.

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Body temperature around 9pm

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Is the highest and Goes down as we go to sleep

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Body temperature at 5 am

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Is the lowest and goes up as we wake up

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About every ___ minutes we pass through a cycle of four distinctive sleep stages

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90

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What waves are released when an individual closes his eyes but remains awake

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Alpha waves

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Alpha waves are

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Awake but relaxed

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What waves are there when we are awake and alert

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Beta waves

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Beta wave is being

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Busy and awake

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38
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What waves does a person exhibit during meditation

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Alpha waves

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NREM 1 is basically

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Drowsy sleep

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Stage 1 of sleep

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NREM 1: very light sleep

Easy to awaken experience hallucinations, hypnogogic falling sensations,myclonic jerks

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NREM 1is characterized only by

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Theta waves

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NREM2 is basically

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Fully asleep

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NREM 2

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Slightly deeper sleep
Prime napping time
Talking in sleep
Eyes rolling slowly

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NREM 2 has theta waves with

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Sleep spindles (rapid waves)

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NREM 3 is basically

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Deep sleep

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NREM 3 AKA

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Slow wave sleep characterized by delta waves

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NREM 3sleep is deepest sleep

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Difficult to awaken and will be disoriented

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NREM 3 waves

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Delta waves

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After NREM 3 we go to

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NREM 2

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Sleep disorders in NREM 3

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Night terrors and sleep walking

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Night terrors

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Sudden arousal from sleep with intense fear accompanied by physiological reactions (rapid heart rate, perspiration)

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Sleepwalking

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Type of parasomnia: abnormal behaviors during sleep

Harmless and unrecalled the next day

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REM sleep aka

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Paradoxical sleep

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54
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Why is REM sleep active sleep?

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Heart rate increases, breathing more rapid, eyes dart behind lids

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What happens to genitals during REM sleep?

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Genitals become aroused even when dreams are non sexual in nature

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As sleep continues, REM sleep gets

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Longer and longer

That’s why dreams are more during morning than night

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REM sleep includes

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Rapid eye movement
Dreaming
REM atopia/ REM behavior disorder

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Mind in REM sleep

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Very active but body is inactive

Paralyzed paradox

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REM atopia

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Muscle paralysis

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REM behavior disorder

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Not paralyzed but act out dreams

61
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Sleep deprivation leads to

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Cognitive and motor decline

62
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Microsleep

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Brief burst of sleep that we are not aware of

E.g.: drowsy during driving

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Insomnia

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A persistent inability to fall or stay asleep

64
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Narcolepsy is in which stage

65
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Narcolepsy

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Overpowering urge to fall asleep that may occur while talking or standing up

(Video we watched about the small girl)

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Narcolepsy is lack of what hormone

67
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Sleep apnea

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Failure to breathe when asleep

68
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Wake up feeling dread but no memory of the experience

Can move

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Night terrors

69
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Remember the plot of the bad dream

Cannot act out dreams (due to REM atopia)

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Nightmares

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REM rebound

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When we didn’t have enough REM sleep and then allowed to sleep, we show more REM sleep

When deprived of sleep you dream more

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Sleeping after being drunk

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You can’t dream

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Freud’s saying of why we dream: wish fulfillment

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Dreams provide a psychic safety value to discharge unaccepted feelings

73
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Dreams have a symbolic meaning that signify our unaccepted feelings

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Freud- wish fulfillment

74
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Wish fulfillment perception

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Psychoanalytic

75
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Manifest content

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The STORY LINE of dreams

76
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Latent content word

77
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Latent content

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The UNDERLYING MEANING OF DREAMS

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Latent content by Freud

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Our dreams revealed our unconscious thoughts, worries, desires

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Information processing/memory consolidation

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Dreams may help sift, sort, and fix a day’s experience in our memories

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Physiological function/growth

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Dreams provide the sleeping brain with periodic stimulation to develop and preserve neural pathways.

SLEEP and DREAMS HELP GROWTH

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Physiological growth and new born babies

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Neural networks of new born babies keep developing so they need more sleep

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Activation synthesis is opposite of

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Freud’s theory

83
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Activation synthesis

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Random neural activity

Dreams make sense of this activity

84
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Activation synthesis perspective

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Biological

85
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Cognitive development

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Some researchers say that we dream for brain’s maturation and cognitive development, trying things out in the safety of our conscious.

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Hypnosis

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State of awareness by deep relaxation, heightened suggestibility and focused attention

87
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Hypnotist suggests

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Changes in sensation, thoughts, behavior

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Hypnosis theory 1

Hypnosis is

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Not a special state of consciousness but is rather tied to social roles

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Hypnosis one says hypnosis is a social phenomenon

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Argument that participants are doing what’s expected of them

They are just copying the role of how one acts during hypnosis: PERCEPTUAL SET!!

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Hypnosis one and pain relief from hypnosis

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It is caused by normal shift/split in selective attention

Like pain not felt during a football game

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Hypnosis theory 2

Dissociation divided conscious theory blends

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Blends role and state theories

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Hypnosis theory 2

Dissociation divided conscious theory Hillary

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Split= 1 part of a person’s voluntarily responds completely to hypnotist, the other part of person is aware of all reality

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Hilgard dissociation

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Split in voluntary and involuntary behaviors to be controlled in part by a hypnotist

94
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Hilgard’s hidden observer

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Hypnotized subject’s awareness of experience (pain) that go unreported during hypnosis.
Part of person is aware of the reality happening

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Hidden observer

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Part of person feels the pain during ice water experiments

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Pain relief studies

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Pain stimuli is split from emotional suffering from pain

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Is there some part of the person feeling pain during hidden observer

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According to it, yes

98
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Odor on Divided consciousness theory

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Hypnosis has caused a split in awareness

99
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Odor on Social influence theory

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The person is so caught up in hypnosis that she ignored the odor

100
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Posthypnotic Amnesia

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Can’t recall what happened during hypnosis because the hypnotist suggested it

101
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Posthypnotic amnesia example

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You will no longer remember anything you experienced today

102
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Posthypnotic suggestion

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Suggestion made during hypnosis which will continue even after hypnosis session is over

103
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Posthypnotic suggestion example

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From now on you will start finding smoking cigarettes to be stupid and lame

104
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Psychoactive drug

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Any chemical substance that ALTERS PERCEPTION AND MOOD

Impairs brain mechanisms that help us make good decisions

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Depressants

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“Downers”

Calm neutral activity and slow body functions

106
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Depressants include

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Opiates and barbituants

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Stimulants

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“Uppers”

Hype/excite neural activity

108
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Hallucinogens

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DISORT perception and evoke sensory images in the absence of sensory input

109
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Dissociative

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Create split in awareness

110
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Dissociative drugs feeling

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Separation from body

Usually have depressant and hallucinogenic qualities

111
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Why do drugs get people “high”?

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Drugs stimulate the release of certain neurotransmitters

Others are agonists and antagonists

112
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Drugs work at

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Neurological level and brain’s synapse

113
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What do addictive drugs do?

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Stimulate the reward centers making you feel a sense of euphoria(excitement and happiness)

114
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Alcohol suppresses parts of the brain that

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Controls judgement, inhibitions, and can seriously alter physical functioning in high doses

115
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Alcohol affects

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Balance, memory, consciousness, leads to death

116
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When you’re drunk you can be

117
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Alcohol will increase

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Any tendency, harmful or helpful

118
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Barbiturates

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Depress CNS and reduce anxiety but impair memory and judgment

119
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Very dangerous when mixed with alcohol

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Barbiturates

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Examples of barbiturates

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Tranquilizers like Nembutal, Seconal, and Amytal.

Some anticonvulsant and sleep aids

121
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Opiates is from

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Derived from the poppy plants and opium

122
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Opiates

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ACT AS PAINKILLERS and slow down neural activity

123
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Examples of opiates

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Morphine, heroine, opium

124
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Opiates mimics_____ causing__________ because

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Endorphins; causing massive cravings, withdrawal, and addiction because body stops producing its natural opiates

125
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Stimulants example

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Caffeine, nicotine, amphetamines, cocaine, MDMA

126
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Amphetamines

127
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MDMA aka and qualities

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Ecstasy

Also has hallucinogenic qualities

128
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Stimulant impact on body

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Speed heart rate, breathing, often used to be awake, use weight or boost mood.

129
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Cocaine vs crack

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Crack produces quicker than cocaine and is more intense but lasts for a shorter period of time

130
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What does cocaine do and cause

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Uses up brain supply of dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine, often causing depression
Also increases paranoia and increases risk of heart problems
May increase aggressive behavior and extreme addiction

131
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Methamphetamine words

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Crystal meth, ice, speed

132
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Methamphetamine causes

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Large increase in alertness and may increase in energy and produce a euphoria (excitement)

133
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Methamphetamine leads to

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Extreme addiction, insomnia, nervousness or even seizures

134
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Hallucinogens aka

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Psychedelics!!

135
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Drugs create______, altered perceptions, and blur lines between self and ________ __________

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Hallucinogens

External world

136
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Most well known hallucinogen: LSD fullform

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Lysergic acid diethylamine

Probably most powerful hallucinogen

137
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Most hallucinogens affect

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SEROTONIN receptors

138
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Examples of psychedelics

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Marijuana, peyote, mescaline, MDMA and psilocybin mushrooms

139
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🍄psilocybin mushrooms🍄

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Magic mushrooms!! 🍄

140
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Most frequently used hallucinogen

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WEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDDDD

141
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Marijuana consists of

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Flowers and leaves from the hemp plant and when smoke nor ingested acts as a mild hallucinogen

142
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What did weed do to you?

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Relaxed, disinhibited and impaired my motor functions

At the same time amplified sensitivity to color, sound, taste and smells

143
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Main active ingredient of cannabis

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Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)

144
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Advocates say marijuana serves as

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Relief of suffering from pain, nausea and having trouble eating

145
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Most annoying people recognize weed as

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Toxic because of the smoke

146
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Marijuana disadvantages

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Disrupts memory formation and may cause sexual dysfunctions

147
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Biological influence of drugs with twins

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Identical twin is alcoholic—->other twin has an increased risk

148
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Biological influence on drug use with genes

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Molecular genetics have found gene that is more common in people with alcoholism

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