Consciousness

Question 1

How many levels of consciousness are there?

Answer 1

4.

Question 2

What are the levels of consciousness?

Answer 2

1. Consciousness
2. Pre-Conscious
3. Non-Conscious
4. Unconscious/Sub-conscious

Question 3

What is the meaning of Consciousness?

Answer 3

Being aware of yourself and the surroundings. Being able to react to the outside world, think and use your mind.

Question 4

What is the meaning of Pre-Conscious?

Answer 4

Parts of the brain that can be accessed by the conscious mind, but aren’t being used currently.

Question 5

What is the meaning of Non-conscious?

Answer 5

Thoughts and processes that are in peoples mind without them being aware of them.

Question 6

What is Unconscious/Subconscious?

Answer 6

Thoughts we aren’t aware of, but that influence our conscious thoughts.

Question 7

What is Frued’s theory about Subconsciousness?

Answer 7

Frued believed that subconscious thoughts were thoughts and urges that were too unacceptable to be practiced in real life. Eg. Sexual desires.

Question 8

What is an example of Nonconscious?

Answer 8

Heart beating, stomach digesting, lungs breathing

Question 9

What is an example of Pre-Conscious?

Answer 9

Remembering what you had for lunch, remembering a childhood memory based off a smell/taste etc.

Question 10

What is an examble of consciousness?

Answer 10

Knowing your surroundings, being able to catch a ball or react to something externally, being able to think.

Question 11

What is phenominal conscious?

Answer 11

The ‘here and now’ consciousness.

Question 12

What is an example of phenominal consciousness?

Answer 12

Being able to realise that you’re thinking in the present moment. Eg. realising how red something is or how strong something smells.

Question 13

What is access consciousness?

Answer 13

What we remember of an experience, however less detailed.

Question 14

Altered states of consciousness

Answer 14

Awake
Asleep
Dreaming
Daydreaming
Orgasm
Hallucinating
Hypnosis
sensory deprivation
Food/Oxygen Starvation
Meditation

Question 15

What is classed as Spontaneous, daily states of consciousness?

Answer 15

Awake
Asleep
Dreaming
Daydreaming

Question 16

What is classed as Psychologically induced stated of consciousness?

Answer 16

Hypnosis
Meditation
Sensory Deprivation

Question 17

What is classes at physiologically induced states of consciousness?

Answer 17

Hallucinations
Food/Oxygen starvation
Orgasm

Question 18

What is hypnosis?

Answer 18

When someone is guided by another person to respond to suggestions given.

Question 19

What does hypnosis alter?

Answer 19

Thoughts, perceptions, behaviour, emotion and sensations

Question 20

What altered state of mind do some practitioners use as a therapy aid?

Answer 20

Hypnosis

Question 21

What is a hallucination?

Answer 21

False perception that is exactly like reality. A person perceives something that isn’t really there, but seems completely realistic.

Question 22

What are the types of hallucinations?

Answer 22

Auditory
Visual
Olfactory
Gustatory
Tactile

Question 23

What is an olfactory hallucination?

Answer 23

Smelling things that aren’t there.

Question 24

What is a gustatory hallucination?

Answer 24

Tasting something that isn’t there.

Question 25

Who most often gets gustatory hallucinations?

Answer 25

People on drugs or people with Dementia.

Question 26

What is a tactile hallucination?

Answer 26

Thinking something is on or under skin.

Question 27

True or False: Hallucinations only occur for people with mental illnesses of some sort.

Answer 27

False: 10-30/40% of people will experience a hallucination at some point in their life.

Question 28

What is DeJa-Vu?

Answer 28

A sense of experiencing something that's already happened and thinking you're able to predict the outcome.

Question 29

True or False: People who experience Deja-Vu are likely to become uni-educated, high income, Liberal voters.

Answer 29

True.

Question 30

What causes DeJa-Vu?

Answer 30

We experience an event and milliseconds later have a very small seizure in the right temporal lobe.

Question 31

What does the Right Temporal Lobe assist with?

Answer 31

Associated with feelings of familiarity.

Question 32

What is Capgras Syndrome?

Answer 32

When a person believes their family member or friend is an imposter.

Question 33

Who is likely to develop Capgras Syndrome?

Answer 33

People with Schizophrenia, Dementia or brain injury.

Question 34

What causes Capgras Syndrome?

Answer 34

A disconnection between the temporal lobe (facial recognition) and limbic system (emotional connection).

Question 35

Is Alcohol a CNS stimulant or CNS depressant?

Answer 35

CNS depressant

Question 36

Are drugs a CNS stimulant or CNS depressant?

Answer 36

CNS strong stimulant

Question 37

What does Cocaine do to your brain?

Answer 37

Stops Dopamine from being recycled, instead causing a massive build up in the synapse. Causes disruptions in normal brain communication, causing a 'high'

Question 38

What is the synapse?

Answer 38

Space between nerve cell endings.

Question 39

What are the short term effects of cocaine?

Answer 39

Increases neurotransmitter dopamine (reward system). Associated with Euphoria, mental and physical excitation, decrease in hunger, increase in pain threshold, sense of wellbeing.

Question 40

How long does a cocaine 'high' last?

Answer 40

About half an hour.

Question 41

What are the long term effects of Cocaine?

Answer 41

Disrupts cortical reward system, which makes people struggle to have a natural high. Paranoia Anxiety Depression

Question 42

What are the short term effects of Alcohol?

Answer 42

Relaxation Elevated mood Increased talkativeness Increased activity More extroverted Impaired judgement

Question 43

What alcohol BAC shows depressive actions

Answer 43

0.05% - 0.1%

Question 44

True or False: Women have higher BAC for same qty of drinks than men due to level of body fat

Answer 44

True

Question 45

What is the level of intoxication determined by?

Answer 45

Blood Alcohol Content

Question 46

What is BAC determined by?

Answer 46

Body fat Stomach contents

Question 47

What is Delirium Tremens (DT)?

Answer 47

Alcohol Withdrawl

Question 48

What are the symptoms of DT?

Answer 48

Disorientation Confusion Visual hallucinations Memory deficit Tachycardia Cardiac Arrythmia Hypertension Hyperthermia Diaphoresis Heart Attack Stroke Paranoia

Question 49

What is DT usually treated with?

Answer 49

Benzodiazepines under an induced coma, to lessen the suffering on the patient.