Consciousness And Unconsciousness Flashcards
Change blindness
When people feel to detect changes to the visual details of scene 11 million–40
Describe our circadian rhythms and what regulates it
24 hour biological cycle of wakefulness and temperature
it response to light
Stage 1 of sleep
Breathing, heart rate, temperature decreases
Muscle tension reduces
Leg twitches and hypnagogic jerks
Theta waves
Stage 2 of sleep
Beginning of sleep spindles and K complexes
Sleep talking begins
Involuntary psychomotor activity
Stage 3/4 of sleep
Known as slow wave sleep
Delta waves
Enuresis, sleep walking (3), night terrors (4)
REM sleep
Genital arousal Dreams and nightmares Paralysis Rapid Eye Movement Same brain activity when awake
REM rebound
If you don’t get enough REM sleep the night prior you tend to have a rebound of more REM sleep the next night
Why do we sleep?
We sleep to conserve our energy, as an evolutionary trait to avoid predators, as restoration, memory creativity and growth.
Negative affects of sleep deprivation
Impaired concentration, memory, and learning
Common themes in dreams
Failing
Attacked
pursued
Rejected
Wish fulfillment
Contains manifest content and latent content
What is manifest content?
A dream’s apparent meaning
What is latent content?
A dreams true underlying meaning
Activation Synthesis Model
Dreams are produced when the brain attempts to make sense of random neural activities that occurred during sleep.
Information processing
Build memories, sort out daily events
