Consiousness (4a) Flashcards
Consiousness
Everything we are thinking about right now
Our awareness of our surroundings and ourselves
Altered states of consciousness
- being asleep
- having a dream
- hyponosis
- mediation
- anaesthesia
- psychoactive dugs
States of consciousness
Level of awareness for our external surroundings and internal stats
Contents of consciousness
Specific thoughts we are aware of about our internal states or external surroundings
Inattention blindness
If you aren’t paying attention to something visual, you are unable to report on the details of what the visual stimuli contain
Development of copiousness
Consciousness awareness of self seems to develop around 18 months full coniounes awareness develops at around 22 months
Preconiousness
Level of awareness in which information can become readily available to copiousness if necessary
- what did you do last weekend
Automatic behaviours
a type of precocious behaviour
- Do you remember every step each time you brushed your teeth last week
Unconscious state
State in which information is not accessible to conscious awareness
- what did you eat last week
Explicit memory
Involves pieces of knowledge that we are fully aware of
Implicit memory
Knowledge that we have stored in memory that we are not typically aware of or able to recall at will
Adaptive sleep theory
Theory that organisms sleep for the praise of self preservation, to keep away from predictors
Restoration theory
Holds that sleep restores our brains and bodies
Circadian Rothy’s (biological clock)
Pattern of sleep-wake cycles in human beings that roughly corresponds to periods of daylight and night
Sleep cycles
90 - 100 minutes per sleep cycles
One cycle consists of 5 stages
Of the later part of the night, we spend most time in stages 1, 2, and REM sleep
