Unit 4- States Of Conciousness Flashcards
Conciousness
Level of focused awareness on ourselves or our enviornment
Circadian rhythms
Natural biological clock, can alter body temp, arousal, RAS, pineal, melatonin
Dual processing
Thoughts are processed at a conscious and unconscious level at the same time
Near death experience
Altered state of consciousness reported by about one third of those who survive a brush death
Sleep
unremembered moment, brainwaves of stages 1-4 and REM
Alpha waves
During stage 1 when your body is relaxing
Delta waves
During stage 3 and 4 when you are in a deep sleep
-can have night terrors, sleep walking, and sleep talking
Sleep spindles
During stage 2 when your brain has bursts of brain activity
NREM
Stages 1-4 as the night goes on, NREM gets shorter, repairs body
REM
Repairs brain, as night goes on REM gets longer
Hypnogogic
Not fully asleep, can still hear, not a deep sleep, easy to wake up from
Insomnia
Not being able to fall or stay asleep
-treatments: melatonin or sleep medication
Narcolepsy
Sudden sleep attacks -triggered by emotion
Always tired
Cataplexy
-treatments: stimulant medicines to try to keep awake, hard to treat
Sleep apnea
Stop breathing, always tired or gasping for air, not getting enough REM sleep
-Treatments: mask
Night terrors
Stages 3 and 4
Screaming, flailing, sweating
Freudian dream interpretation
Thought dreams are a reflection of unconscious desires, urges, fears, and anxieties
Manifest content
Plot/storyline of the dream
Latent content
Hidden meaning of the dream
REM rebound
Catching up on sleep and getting REM sleep when you havent in a while
Hypnosis
Deep state of relaxation, heightened suggestibility, and focused attention
Hypnotic suspectibility
How likely you are to be able to be hypnotized
Posthypnotic suggestion
Behavior that hypnotists suggest but is supposed to be changed after the hypnosis is over
Social influence theory
A person who is hypnotized is playing a role of what they expect they should be doing under hypnosis
Divided consciousness theory
Have a different state of awareness that dissociates ourselves from out normal state of mind
Dissociation
A split between different levels of consciousness
Psychoactive drugs
Chemicals that change perceptions and moods through actions at the neutral synapses
Physical dependence
User may feel physical pain and intense cravings
Psychological dependence
Stress relieving drugs, needed mentally
Tolerance
Continued use
Withdrawl
Stop using drugs and experience side effects
Addiction
Compulsive craving for a substance despite consequences
Depressants
Alcohol, barbiturates, opiates, calm activity and slow body functions
Stimulants
Caffeine, nicotine, cocaine, (meth)-amphetamines, excite neural activity and arouse body functions
Barbituates
Involves GABA, removes GABA and stops messages, mimic effects of alcohol
Opiates
Heroine, depress neutral feelings
Amphetamines
Type of stimulant, chemically related to methamphetamine, increase heart and breathing rate
Mathamphetamines
Involves dopamine, excess dopamine and pumps it out into synapse, over stimulates the cell, increase heart and breathing rates
Ecstasy
Involves serotonin, mimics it and is taken up by transporters so overstimulation
Hallucinogens
LSD, ecstasy, marijuana, distort perceptions and evoke sensory images in the absence of sensory imput
LSD
Involves serotonin, can excite receptors and act as serotonin
THC
Relaxes people, involves GABE and dopamine, tons of dopamine is released, can produce a euphoric high
Hallucinations
Sensory experiences that occur without a sensory stimulus
Cataplexy
Sudden loss of muscle control
Information processing dream
Dreams help us consolidate memories and organize our thoughts from waking lives
Problem solving dream
Dreams help come to solutions about problems in everyday lives
Activation syntheses dreaming
Dreams are completely random firing of neurons, brain puts them together in a story
Dreams
Hallucinations of the sleeping mind
