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Chapter 5: Consciousness Flashcards

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Consciousness

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Consciousness refers to your individual awareness of your unique thoughts, memories, feelings, sensations, and environments. Essentially, your consciousness is your awareness of yourself and the world around you

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Automatic Processing

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when you’re doing things but you’re not really focused on what it is that you’re doing

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Controlled Processing

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Thinking about and knowing what it is you’re doing

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Preconscious

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Involves your preconscious activity. What you’re not thinking about currently but could be made aware of

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Unconscious

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things we do not have access to

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Automatic Mode VS Controlled Mode

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You’re activating different areas of the brain then when you’re in controlled process, you’re activating the default mode network and that involves into another network

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Procedural Skills

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The knowledge exercised in the accomplishment of a task

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Circadian Rhythms

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24hr Biological cycles. Mostly affected by light and darkness and are controlled by a small area in the middle of the brain

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Melatonin

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what regulates your circadian Rhythms

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Physiological Pathway of the Biological clock

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Specialized receptors at the back of your eye that are responsive to light ad those cells send signals to an area of the hypothalamus

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Suprachiasmatic Nucleus

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Stimulates the pineal gland

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Melatonin Hormone

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Promotes sleep, anything that interferes with the release of melatonin from the pineal gland is going to interfere with your circadian Rhythm

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Awake

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Beta Waves (low voltage, high frequency)

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Drowsy

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Alpha Waves prominent

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Stage 1 Sleep

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Theta Waves Prominent -could produce hallucinations

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Stage 2 Sleep

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Sleep spindles and mixed EEG activity

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Stage 3& 4: Slow wave Sleep

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progressively more delta waves

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REM Sleep

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Low voltage, high frequency

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Cycle of sleep occurs

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4-5 times a night. Each period of Rem getting longer each cycle.

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Why do we sleep?

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  • To conserve energy
  • adaptive because it reduces danger
  • helps to restore energy and other bodily resources
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Complete Sleep Deprivation

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Would be when you’re not allowed to sleep at all

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Partial Sleep Deprivation

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Would be when you’re hours of sleep are reduced

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What happens with Sleep Deprivation

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  • A lot of emotion
  • Impairment in problem solving
  • Impairment of attentional capacities
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REM Rebound

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when you deprive a person of REM sleep or slow sleep

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Insomnia
Difficulty falling or Staying asleep
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Narcolepsy
Falling asleep uncontrollably
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Sleep Apnea
Reflexive gasping for air that awakens the sleeper
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Nightmares
Anxiety-arousing dreams
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Night Terrors
Intense arousal and panic
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Somnambulism
Sleepwalking/Sleep talking
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what do researchers suggest about sleeping pills?
the argue to avoid sleeping pills due to the risk of dependency and some research suggesting that there might be higher morality associated with the use of sleeping pills
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Dream Theory: Psychodynamic View
Developed by Freud. Reflective of some of your unconscious desires, thoughts, motives, emotions that break through an influences the content of your dreams
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Wishful Fulfillment
Unconscious desires and fears hidden from conscious mind break through in dreams
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ID
Reflective of unconscious desires, thoughts and feelings
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The 3 concepts in Psychoanalytic theory
ID, EGO, SuperEgo
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The Manifest Content of Dreams
What you actually dream about: objects, people, things within your dream
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The Latent Content
What that is symbolic of: things you dream about are symbolic of other things
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Dream Theory: Psychological View
Argue about what dreams do NOT mean.
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Acitvation
Random firing of neurons in the pons
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Activation-Synthesis Model
Hobson & McCarley argue that there is nothing inherently meaningful about dreams. They believe that dreams are the result of Activation.
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Hobson & McCarley argue..
Dreams are just a consequence of these basic psychological processes that happen during this stage of sleep.
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Dream Theory: Cognitive View
Dreams are connected to our waking experiences
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DAMIT defined
"Dreams of Absent-minded transgression"
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What is DAMMIT
Gill argues : dreamers are more successful in addiction programs
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Dreams as Integration of Learning
Evans argues: Dreams as mode to integrate new experiences with past memories
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Dreams as Problem Solving
Cartright argues: Adjust to major life cruses by daydreaming
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Dreams
are considered important to the consolidation of new memories for forming connections through making decisions for problem solving within our lives
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Lucid Dreaming
When a person is dreaming, then realizes people can go further and actually control their dreams
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Strong Correlate
Ability to be absorbed in an activity/ task
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The Standard Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale
About 15% of people come out as being susceptible to hypnosis. 10-20% of people show no signs of susceptibility
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Hypnosis
A systematic procedure that increases suggestibility
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Hypnotic Susceptibility
Individual differences
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PET Scans
areas involved in the regulation or consciousness
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Hypnotic State
associated with increased attention
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Meditation
Practices that train attention to heighten awareness and bring mental processes under greater vocabulary control
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Transcendental Meditation
Potential physiological benefits. Similar to effective relation procedures
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Type 1 Meditation: Focused Attention
When you're asked to focus on breathing
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Type 2 Meditation: Open Monitoring
When you're asked to absorb all things that are happening around you. To be within the present moment and bring your attention to one thing
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What is impacted by your state of meditation?
BOTH the Central Nervous System, and the Peripheral Nervous system
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Fatal Familial Insomnia
Related to Mad Cow disease
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What do you experience when being sleep deprived for more then 72 hours
People often experience hallucinations and perceptual distortions
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Activity in the SCN leads to..
Release of melatonin from the pineal gland
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This theory, proposed by Rosalind Cartwright, suggests that dreams help us with our challenges. What is this theory called?
Dream as Problem Solving
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The theory of Hobson and McCarley proposes that dreams occur as side effects of neural activation of the cortex by lower brain centres. What is it called?
Activation Synthesis Model
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A device that monitors the electrical activity of the brain.
EEG
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A device that records muscle activity and tension.
EMG
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A device that records eye movements.
Eye Trackers
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One psychological disorder associated with disruption of 24-hour biological cycles
Depression
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Sleep involving rapid eye movements.
REM Sleep
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Sleep stages 1 through 4, which are marked by an absence of rapid eye movements
Non-Rem Sleep
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A systematic procedure that typically produces a heightened state of suggestibility.
Hypnosis
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A family of exercises in which one form is when a conscious attempt is made to focus attention in a nonanalytical way.
Meditation
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the stage of sleep in which you experience hypnagogic hallucinations (with myoclonic jerks)
Stage 1
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In what way does lucid dreaming differ from regular dreaming?
Lucid dreaming is where you are aware that you are in fact dreaming and are able to control what is going on in your dream, whereas with regular dreaming you are just dreaming and have no control.

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