Unit Four: States of Consciousness Flashcards
Consciousness
our awareness of ourselves and our environment
Hypnosis + Scientist
a social interaction in which one person (the subject) responds to another person’s (the hypnotist’s) suggestion that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur
Frank Mesmer
Posthypnotic suggestion
a suggestion, made during a hypnosis session, to be carried out after the subject is no longer hypnotized; used by some clinicians to help control undesired symptoms and behavior
Dissociation
a split in consciousness, which allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously with others
Ernest Hilgard
believed hypnosis involves not only social influence but also a special dual-processing state of dissociation
Spontaneous (natural) states of conscious
Daydream, drowsiness, dreaming
Physiological states of consciousness
Hallucinations, orgasm, food and O2 starvation
Psychological states of consciousness
Sensory deprivation, hypnosis, meditation
Hypnotic induction
The process undertaken by a hypnotist to establish the state or conditions required for hypnosis (super relaxed)
What was the old scale for hypnosis, what is the new one?
Stanford Hypnotic Scale->
Creative Imagination Scale
Levels of consciousness, conscious
Working memory
Levels of consciousness, non-conscious
Posture, digestion
Levels of consciousness, preconscious
Freud, we have all of our memories (wrong) (potty-training messed us up)
Levels of consciousness, subconscious
Processed without thinking, hum of a fan
Levels of consciousness, unconscious
Freud, psycho-dynamic (hidden desires, everything is related to sex)
Circadian rhythm
a roughly 24 hour cycle in the physiological processes of living beings
REM sleep
rapid eye movement sleep; a recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur. Also known as paradoxical sleep, because the muscles are relaxed (except for minor twitches) but other body systems are active
Alpha waves
the relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state
Sleep
periodic, natural loss of consciousness—as distinct from unconsciousness resulting from a coma, general anesthesia, or hibernation
Hallucinations
false sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus
Hypnagogic
of or relating to the state immediately before falling asleep
Sleep spindles
bursts of rapid, rhythmic brain-wave activity
Delta waves
the large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep
NREM sleep
nonrapid eye movement sleep; encompasses all sleep stages except for REM sleep
Paradoxical sleep
the body is internally aroused, with waking-like brain activity, yet asleep and externally calm
Sleep paralysis
a temporary inability to move or speak while falling asleep or upon waking
Make one full sleep cycle (NREM-1 through two rounds of REM)
N-1 to N-2 to N-3 to N-2 to R to N-2 to N-3 to N-2 to R
Suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN)
a pair of cell clusters in the hypothalamus that controls circadian rhythm. In response to light, the SCN causes the pineal gland to adjust melatonin production, thus modifying our feelings of sleepines
Role of the pineal gland in sleep
Produces melatonin (causes sleep)
Free radicals
molecules that are toxic to neurons
James Maas and Rebecca Robbins
sleep improves athletic performance
What are the five reasons sleep evolved?
Protection, recuperate, memories, creative thinking, growth
Ghrelin
a hunger-arousing hormone
Leptin
hunger-suppressing partner
Insomnia
recurring problems in falling or staying asleep