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What is the definition of consciousness?

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Awareness of one’s surroundings and what’s in one’s mind at a given time

  • filtered to direct focus on relevant stimuli
  • guided by past experiences and current desires
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What is wakefulness?

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Degree of alertness

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What is awareness?

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Monitoring of information

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What are the kinds of minimal consciousness?

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Coma - Glasgow coma scale used to be used
Vegetative state - eyes open, otherwise unresponsive
some level of awareness but not
necessarily wakefulness
Locked-in syndrome- tested with fMRI to show where function happens

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Types of full consciousness?

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Bored: awake but understimulated from enviro
Drowsy: feel the need to sleep
flow: very alert and present, may lose the sense of time
mindfulness: heightened awareness of present moment
(environment or own mind)

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Definition of attention

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The limited capacity to process info under conscious control

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What is selective attention?

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The ability to focus awareness on specific features in environment while ignoring others

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Name of experiments used to back up selective attention?

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Dichotic listening task - headphones
Cocktail party effect
Inattentional blindness- gorilla video
perceptual overload - the primary task is very demanding consumes all attention

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What is sustained attention?

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The ability to maintain focused awareness

ex of job: air traffic controller

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What is vigilance?

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a state of maximum physiological and psychological readiness to react - super ready to receive and process info

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What are the vigilance decrement theories?

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Studied in officers during the war

boredom theory
resource theory of attention

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How does Ritalin effect people?

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ADHD- helps by increases part of brain that helps with regulating attention
Reg ppl- mostly placebo

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can you train consciousness?

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yes with meditation
evidence this physically changes in the brain- certain areas of awareness in the brain can become thicker after practicing meditation over time

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What is a Circadian rhythm?

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  • The variation in physiological processes that cycle within about a 24h period including the sleep-wake cycle
  • body cools down going to sleep
  • melotonin increases as we go to sleep
  • each have our own
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What are free-running rhythms?

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  • after a while of using circadian rhythms in a time cue free environment we develop these
  • ex of hamsters
  • cycles generated without time cues
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What are ultradian rhythyms?

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  • The sleep cycle
  • Repeats in less than 24 h
  • about 90 minutes
  • 4 stages and REM sleep
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Brain waves when you’re awake?

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Beta waves

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Waves when drowsy?

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alpha waves

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Stage 1 waves ?

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Stage 2 waves ?

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Theta waves with sleep spindles and k complexes

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Stage 3 waves?

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theta waves and some delta waves

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Stage 4 waves?

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REM sleep waves?

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alpha and beta like activity

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When does sleepwalking occur?

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Non REM sleep because we are not paralyzed then

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What is continuity hypothesis?
Dreams are made of your brain thinking about what happened during the day
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What is the phychoanalytic theory by sigmund freud ?
- Dreams express our surpressed desires - Two levels - manifest level- what we remember - latent level- what we don't remember, where the true meaning of the dream lies
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What si the memory consilation theory?
Dreams allow us to consolidate, organize, analyze info from during the day
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What are the theories for the function of sleep?
- restoration theory | - memory consolidation theory
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What is the restoration theory?
The body needs to be repaired after it wears out during the day - oxygen metabolosim produces harmful radicles enzymes during sleep take care of - sleep deprivation - breakdown of tissue - marathon runners
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What is the memory consolidation theory for the function of sleep?
We go through and process information that we find during the day - brain reheares new tasks while we sleep - same brain activity as when we rehearse activity during day as when we sleep
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What happens if you have chronic sleep restriction?
Cognitive impairments dont function well lack of sleep builds up
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Why are cell phones bad for sleep?
- in back of mind - notifications - bright screen
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What is hypnosis?
``` A state of mind that occurs in compliance with instructions characterized by - lack f voluntary control - focused attention - suggestibility - suspension of critical falculties ```
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What is hypnotherapy used by freud?
Clinical tool for any kind of pain (childbirth, anxiety, chronic pain ect) - can give better truthful responses to questions as it acesss unconcsiousness mind
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How does hypnotherapy work?
Hidden observer effect - dissosciated state of consicoueness, able to observe themselves and their pain without any negative feelings about themselves Role playing- in study
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Amir raz study of the stroop effect?
Tests visual selective attention words say one colour while they are coloured in a different colour - regular people had a delayed reaction time - hypnotized people had faster time after the suggestion that they see the word meaning as gibberish was made
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Pain rating study?
Real pain #1 hypnotized pain #2 imagined pain #3 backed with brain imaging
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Sleep disorders : insomnia ?
taking more than 20 minutes to fall asleep trouble staying asleep not feeling well rested
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Sleep disorders : sleep apnea?
temporary blockage of air passage | can lead to sleep deprivation as not enough deep sleep happens
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Sleep disorders: sleepwalking ?
- happens during non- REM sleep | - not acting out dreams as dreams occur during REM sleep
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narcolespy?
``` falling asleep randomly dogs no warning excessive daytime sleepiness appears to have genetic bases ```
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hypersomnia
- sleeping more than 10 h a night for 2 or more consecutive weeks - involves strong napping urges - can be caused by other sleep disorders
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What is the function of the Suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of the thalamus?
This regulates the physiological activity on daily cycles - light cue- info to brain - hypothalamus - SCN signals pineal gland to decrease amount of melatonin produced- sun goes away- melatonin picks up
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What neurotransmitter is produced in the basal forebrain contain?
- neurons produce acetylcholine | - produces the rapid pattern of EEG activation observed in waking and REM sleep
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What is the preoptic area
contains neurons that produce GAVA
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What is the posterior hypothalamus
Where neurons produce orexin ( arousal, wakefulness and appetite )

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