Chapter 5

Question 1

phenomenology

Answer 1

how things seem to conscious person

Question 2

the problem of other minds

Answer 2

how do we destinguish between a conscious person from someone who is not conscious but does and says all the same things as a conscious person

Question 3

mind’s capacity for experience

Answer 3

pain, pleasure, hunger, fear

Question 4

mind’s capacity for agency

Answer 4

self contorl. planning, memory

Question 5

the mind body problem

Answer 5

issue of how the mid is related to the brain and body
“mind is what the brain does”
all thought is connected to brain activity (brain activty actuallly happens before people say they made the consious decison to move thier hand)

Question 6

intentionality

Answer 6

directed towards an object, consiousness is always about something

Question 7

unity

Answer 7

resistance to diversion/ability to integrate info from all of the body’s senses inot ond coherent whole

Question 8

selectivity

Answer 8

capacity to include some obhects and not others
people tune in one message while filter out others

Question 9

transience

Answer 9

tendecy to change
focus and attention keeps changing

Question 10

minimal level of consciousness

Answer 10

low level kind of sensory awarness/responsiveness that occurs when the mind inputs snesations and may output behavior

Question 11

full level of consciousness

Answer 11

know and are able to report your mental state
not only thinking about things but thinking about the fact that you are thinking

Question 12

self consciousness

Answer 12

person’s attention is drawn to the self as an object

Question 13

daydreams

Answer 13

a state of consciousness where purposeless flow of thoughts comes to mind

Question 14

mental control

Answer 14

attempt to change states of mind

Question 15

thought suppression

Answer 15

trying to avioud a certain thought

Question 16

rebound effect of thought suppression

Answer 16

tendency of a thought to return to conscisousness with greater frequency following suppresion

Question 17

ironic proceses of mental control

Answer 17

ironic errors becuase the occur mental process that monitors erros can actually produce them

Question 18

dynamic unconscious

Answer 18

an active system encompassing a lifetime of hidden memoires ther person’s deepest instincts and desires and persons inner struggle to control these forces (FREUD)

Question 19

repression

Answer 19

FREUD- mental process that removes unacceptable thoughts from consiousness and keeps them in unconsious

Question 20

cogniitve unconscious

Answer 20

all the mental processes that give rise to a person’s thoughts, choice emaotions, and behavior even though not expirenced by person

Question 21

dual process theories

Answer 21

1 system for fast automatinc processing
1 system for slow effortful processing

Question 22

altered state of consciousness

Answer 22

a form of experience that departs signficantly from the normal subjective experience of the world and the mind

Question 23

hypanogoic state

Answer 23

presleep consciousness
hypinc jerks

Question 24

circadian rhythm

Answer 24

a naturally occurring 24 hours cycle

Question 25

awake waves

Answer 25

beta waves

Question 26

drowsy/relaxed waves

Answer 26

alpha waves

Question 27

stage 1 waves

Answer 27

theta waves

Question 28

stage 2 waves

Answer 28

sleep s[indle + k complex

Question 29

stage 3/4 waves

Answer 29

delta activity

Question 30

REM sleep

Answer 30

a stage of sleep characterized by rapid eye movement and a high level fo brain activity mind is as active as it is awake pulse quickens, blood pressure rise, sexual arousal

Question 31

insomnia

Answer 31

difficulty in falling asleep or staying asleep

Question 32

sleep apnea

Answer 32

person stops breathing for brief periods fat middle aged men

Question 33

somnambolism

Answer 33

sleepwalking

Question 34

narcolepsy

Answer 34

disorders in which sudden sleep attack occur in the midle of waking activities

Question 35

sleep paralysis

Answer 35

experience of waking up unable to move

Question 36

night terrors

Answer 36

abrupt awakenings with panic and intencse emptional arousal

Question 37

5 principles of dream consciousness

Answer 37

1. feel intensive emotion 2. dream thought is illogical 3. sensation is fully formed and meaningful 3. dreaming occurs with uncritical acceptance 5. we have difficulty remembering

Question 38

Freud dream theory

Answer 38

dreams are confusing and obscure because unconscious creates them to be this way dreams represent wishes too unacceptable to be distinguished problem = interpretation is guess work

Question 39

activation-syntheis model

Answer 39

dream are produced with brain attempts to make sense of ransom neutral activity occurring during sleep

Question 40

pyschoactive drugs

Answer 40

chemicals that influence consciousness or behavior by altering brains chemical messaging system

Question 41

drug tolerance

Answer 41

larger does to get same effect

Question 42

physical dependance

Answer 42

withdrawls

Question 43

psychological dependance

Answer 43

desire to use again even after withdrawals are done

Question 44

depressants

Answer 44

reduce activity of central nervous system alcohol - increases activity of GABA

Question 45

expectancy theory

Answer 45

effects produced by how people think it will effect them

Question 46

alcohol myphia

Answer 46

alcohol hampers attention, leading people to respond in simple ways to complex situations

Question 47

stimulants

Answer 47

excites central nervous system, heightening arousal and activity caffeine amphetamines nicotine cocaine ecstasy

Question 48

narcotics

Answer 48

highly addictive, derived from opium, relieve pain

Question 49

hallucingens

Answer 49

alter sensation and perception, cause visual and auditory hallucinations animals will not self administer

Question 50

marjuana

Answer 50

plan that contains psychoactive drug called THC euphoric heighten senses rush ideas don't develop tolerance