Unit 4- States Of Conciousness

Question 1

Conciousness

Answer 1

Level of focused awareness on ourselves or our enviornment

Question 2

Circadian rhythms

Answer 2

Natural biological clock, can alter body temp, arousal, RAS, pineal, melatonin

Question 3

Dual processing

Answer 3

Thoughts are processed at a conscious and unconscious level at the same time

Question 4

Near death experience

Answer 4

Altered state of consciousness reported by about one third of those who survive a brush death

Question 5

Sleep

Answer 5

unremembered moment, brainwaves of stages 1-4 and REM

Question 6

Alpha waves

Answer 6

During stage 1 when your body is relaxing

Question 7

Delta waves

Answer 7

During stage 3 and 4 when you are in a deep sleep

-can have night terrors, sleep walking, and sleep talking

Question 8

Sleep spindles

Answer 8

During stage 2 when your brain has bursts of brain activity

Question 9

NREM

Answer 9

Stages 1-4 as the night goes on, NREM gets shorter, repairs body

Question 10

REM

Answer 10

Repairs brain, as night goes on REM gets longer

Question 11

Hypnogogic

Answer 11

Not fully asleep, can still hear, not a deep sleep, easy to wake up from

Question 12

Insomnia

Answer 12

Not being able to fall or stay asleep

-treatments: melatonin or sleep medication

Question 13

Narcolepsy

Answer 13

Sudden sleep attacks -triggered by emotion
Always tired
Cataplexy
-treatments: stimulant medicines to try to keep awake, hard to treat

Question 14

Sleep apnea

Answer 14

Stop breathing, always tired or gasping for air, not getting enough REM sleep
-Treatments: mask

Question 15

Night terrors

Answer 15

Stages 3 and 4

Screaming, flailing, sweating

Question 16

Freudian dream interpretation

Answer 16

Thought dreams are a reflection of unconscious desires, urges, fears, and anxieties

Question 17

Manifest content

Answer 17

Plot/storyline of the dream

Question 18

Latent content

Answer 18

Hidden meaning of the dream

Question 19

REM rebound

Answer 19

Catching up on sleep and getting REM sleep when you havent in a while

Question 20

Hypnosis

Answer 20

Deep state of relaxation, heightened suggestibility, and focused attention

Question 21

Hypnotic suspectibility

Answer 21

How likely you are to be able to be hypnotized

Question 22

Posthypnotic suggestion

Answer 22

Behavior that hypnotists suggest but is supposed to be changed after the hypnosis is over

Question 23

Social influence theory

Answer 23

A person who is hypnotized is playing a role of what they expect they should be doing under hypnosis

Question 24

Divided consciousness theory

Answer 24

Have a different state of awareness that dissociates ourselves from out normal state of mind

Question 25

Dissociation

Answer 25

A split between different levels of consciousness

Question 26

Psychoactive drugs

Answer 26

Chemicals that change perceptions and moods through actions at the neutral synapses

Question 27

Physical dependence

Answer 27

User may feel physical pain and intense cravings

Question 28

Psychological dependence

Answer 28

Stress relieving drugs, needed mentally

Question 29

Tolerance

Answer 29

Continued use

Question 30

Withdrawl

Answer 30

Stop using drugs and experience side effects

Question 31

Addiction

Answer 31

Compulsive craving for a substance despite consequences

Question 32

Depressants

Answer 32

Alcohol, barbiturates, opiates, calm activity and slow body functions

Question 33

Stimulants

Answer 33

Caffeine, nicotine, cocaine, (meth)-amphetamines, excite neural activity and arouse body functions

Question 34

Barbituates

Answer 34

Involves GABA, removes GABA and stops messages, mimic effects of alcohol

Question 35

Opiates

Answer 35

Heroine, depress neutral feelings

Question 36

Amphetamines

Answer 36

Type of stimulant, chemically related to methamphetamine, increase heart and breathing rate

Question 37

Mathamphetamines

Answer 37

Involves dopamine, excess dopamine and pumps it out into synapse, over stimulates the cell, increase heart and breathing rates

Question 38

Ecstasy

Answer 38

Involves serotonin, mimics it and is taken up by transporters so overstimulation

Question 39

Hallucinogens

Answer 39

LSD, ecstasy, marijuana, distort perceptions and evoke sensory images in the absence of sensory imput

Question 40

LSD

Answer 40

Involves serotonin, can excite receptors and act as serotonin

Question 41

THC

Answer 41

Relaxes people, involves GABE and dopamine, tons of dopamine is released, can produce a euphoric high

Question 42

Hallucinations

Answer 42

Sensory experiences that occur without a sensory stimulus

Question 43

Cataplexy

Answer 43

Sudden loss of muscle control

Question 44

Information processing dream

Answer 44

Dreams help us consolidate memories and organize our thoughts from waking lives

Question 44

Problem solving dream

Answer 44

Dreams help come to solutions about problems in everyday lives

Question 44

Activation syntheses dreaming

Answer 44

Dreams are completely random firing of neurons, brain puts them together in a story

Question 44

Dreams

Answer 44

Hallucinations of the sleeping mind