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Unit 4- States Of Conciousness Flashcards

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Conciousness

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Level of focused awareness on ourselves or our enviornment

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Circadian rhythms

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

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Dual processing

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

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Near death experience

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

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Sleep

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unremembered moment, brainwaves of stages 1-4 and REM

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Alpha waves

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During stage 1 when your body is relaxing

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Delta waves

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

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

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Sleep spindles

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During stage 2 when your brain has bursts of brain activity

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NREM

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

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REM

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Repairs brain, as night goes on REM gets longer

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Hypnogogic

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

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Insomnia

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Not being able to fall or stay asleep

-treatments: melatonin or sleep medication

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Narcolepsy

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

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Sleep apnea

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

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Night terrors

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Stages 3 and 4

Screaming, flailing, sweating

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Freudian dream interpretation

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

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Manifest content

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Plot/storyline of the dream

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Latent content

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Hidden meaning of the dream

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REM rebound

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

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Hypnosis

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Deep state of relaxation, heightened suggestibility, and focused attention

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Hypnotic suspectibility

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How likely you are to be able to be hypnotized

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Posthypnotic suggestion

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

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Social influence theory

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

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Divided consciousness theory

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

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Dissociation

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A split between different levels of consciousness

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Psychoactive drugs

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

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Physical dependence

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User may feel physical pain and intense cravings

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Psychological dependence

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Stress relieving drugs, needed mentally

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Tolerance

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Continued use

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Withdrawl

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Stop using drugs and experience side effects

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Addiction

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Compulsive craving for a substance despite consequences

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Depressants

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

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Stimulants

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

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Barbituates

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

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Opiates

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Heroine, depress neutral feelings

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Amphetamines

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

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Mathamphetamines

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

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Ecstasy

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

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Hallucinogens

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

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LSD

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Involves serotonin, can excite receptors and act as serotonin

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THC

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

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Hallucinations

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Sensory experiences that occur without a sensory stimulus

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Cataplexy

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Sudden loss of muscle control

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Information processing dream

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

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Problem solving dream

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Dreams help come to solutions about problems in everyday lives

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Activation syntheses dreaming

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

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Dreams

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Hallucinations of the sleeping mind

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