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Chapter 7: Consciousness Flashcards

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Why do we need sleep

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-selfcontrol
-lack of sleep can fatigue and affect
-productivity
-physical health
-poor sleep can cause depression, disease, diabetes, hdp, early death

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Define Wish Fulfillment

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to fulfill ungratified need

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What are the 2 components of dreams?

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Manifest Content and Latent Content

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the actual story line of the dream and what we remember about

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Manifest Content

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the hidden message behind the dream

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Latent Content

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the idea of the Activation Synthesis Model

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hobson believed dreams involve unconscious desires or conflicts

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Neocognitive Theory

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a theory that dreams are meaningful products of our cognitive capacities

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Functions of Sleep include;

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-repair the wear and tear on our bodies
-gives the brain a rest

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a device that can record activity in the brain during sleep is known as a

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Electroencephalogram (EEG)

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an unusual disturbance of consciousness is known as

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Sleep Paralysis

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what index do we use to text the quality of sleep

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The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality

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REM stands for

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Rapid Eye Movement

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what occurs during REM sleep:

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-muscle paralysis
-rapid eye movement occurs
-we spend most of our time in REM during sleep
-people who are deprived of REM will fall into it faster

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Disorders of Sleep include

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problems getting sleep, increases with age

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symptoms of Insomnia include:

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-difficulty falling asleep
-panic, negative thoughts
-increased arousal
-poor sleep
-fatigue

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what can help with Insomnia, what is the downside to taking taking this process?

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sedatives (sleeping pills) can help u sleep, but the pills begin to lose their effectiveness and can cause u a dependence on drugs withdrawal and symptoms

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a disease caused by suddenly falling to sleep during normal work period

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Narcolepsy

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reflective gasping for air that awakes a person and disrupts sleep

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Sleep Apnea

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anxiety dreams that lead to an awakening

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Nightmares

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a disorder where abrupt awakening from NREM-Sleep are caused by feelings of panic during non REM sleep

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Night Terrors

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sleep walking is also known as

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Somnambulism

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a psychoactive drug is

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a substance that contains the chemicals similar to those found naturally in our brains that alter consciousness

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techniques that provide people with suggestions for alterations is their perception thoughts, feelings and behaviors, can be used to treat people and in therapy

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the behavior of a hypnotized person is a function of that person expectations

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sociocognitive theory of hypnosis

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a split, or dissociation between two aspects of control of consciousness that are ordinarily linked
dissociation theory of hypnosis
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the effects of taking drugs can be
1. Tolerance 2. With drawl 3. Physical Dependence (ex. when you get a headache for not taking caffeine for a day) 4. Psychological Changes (ex. mood changed if you go without caffeine for a day)
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Reasons people may get addicted to or use drugs include? explain..
1. Sociocultural Influences (ex. people who are unemployed) 2. An addictive personality (ex. highly impulsive people, social people, anxious people tend to ge addicted to drugs more) 3. Learning and Expectancies (ex. Tension Reduction Hypothesis: people who consume a drug to "relieve" anxiety) 4. Genetics (ex. alcoholism running in the family)
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how much hours of sleep do we as humans need on average
7-9
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Prohibition was
a movement to ban alcohol
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a fruit animals ingest that could get them drunk is known as
Marula Fruit
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affects of taking alcohol include:
-emotional and psychological stimulant -increases feelings of relaxation -elevated mood -talkativeness -lowers inhibitions -causes impaired judgement
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What method do police use to measure alcohol consumption
Measure BAC (blood alcohol content) through a breathalyzer
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Types of Sedative Hypnotics include:
-Barbiturates (sleeping pills) -Non-Barbiturates -Benzodiazepines
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drugs that activate inhibitory GABA-A receptors are
Sedative Hypnotics
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Types of stimulants include
-Nicotine (activates acetylcholine receptors) -Cocaine and Crack (increase dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine) -Amphetamines (increase dopamine, serotonin and norepinephrine) ex. meth, can treat ADHD and Narcolepsy -increase heart rate and blood pressure
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Types of Narcotics include
-Opiates (acts on opiate receptors) ex. fentanyl, opium -induce sleep and relieve pain
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a syndrome where people are misdiagnosed as being in a coma yet are actually awake and alert but can appear unconscious
Locked in syndrome
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circadian rhythm describe changes that occur on a
24-hour basis
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Melatonin
-triggers in feelings of sleepiness, increase after dark -regulates circadian rhythms
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if one carries a mutation on a gene cal DEC2, that individual may be able to
get away with sleeping less than 6 hours
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We have 5 stages of sleep every night, the stage that involves one just starting to snore, beginning to see hipnagogic imagery (dreamlike images), may begin to suffer sudden jerks as if being startled is stage number
One
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We have 5 stages of sleep every night, the stage where our delta waves start to slow down is stage number
Three
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We have 5 stages of sleep every night, the stage where we get sudden bursts of sleep spindle and K complexes is stage number
Two
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Lucid dreaming is
being aware of when we're dreaming
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acting out our dreams can be known as
REM behavior disorder
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T or F: Brief psychotherapy and sleeping pills can help with bad night terrors or trouble sleeping
True
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T or F: people with narcolepsy can experience cataplexy which is a complete loss of muscle tone
True
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T or F: Resting 24/7 can be used to treat apnea
False, its weight loss and enlarged tonsil surgery
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Freud believed dreams disguise
sexual and aggressive impulses
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a challenge to Freud's dream theory is that
many dreams don't appear to be disguised
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REM is turned on by surges of the neurotransmitter
acetylcholine
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an extraordinary sense of consciousness leaving ones body is called an
Out of Body Experience (OBE)
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massive releases of endorphines in a dying brain is known as a
Near Death Experience (NDE)
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Biological clock is a term that is responsible for
controlling our levels of alertness
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damages to what areas of the brain can affect dreaming
white matter and the parietal lobes
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hypnosis begins with
induction

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