Modules 7-10 Flashcards
(29 cards)
According to Frued, the remembered story line of a dream
Manifest content
Drugs that stimulate neural activity, causing speeded up body functions and associated energy and mood changes
Amphetamines
The discomfort and distress that follow discontinuing the use of an addictive drug
Withdrawal
Periodic,natural, easily reversible loss of consciousness-as distinct from unconsciousness resulting in a coma, general anesthesia, or hibernation
Sleep
A condition in which a person can respond to a visual stimulus without consciously experiencing it
Blindsight
The relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed,awakestate
Alpha waves
The large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep
Delta waves
A social interaction in which one person suggests to another the certain perceptions,feelings,thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur
Hypnosis
Drugs that excite neural activity and speed up body functions
Stimulants
The principle that information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks
Dual processing
According to Freud, the underlying meaning of a dream
Latent content
The focusing of consciousness awareness on a particular stimulus
Selective attention
A sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping’s persons mind. Know for their hallucinations, imagery, discontinuities, and incongruities and for the dreamer’s delusional acceptance of the content and later difficulties remembering it.
Dream
A spilt consciousness, which allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously with others.
Dissociation
Failing to notice changes in the environment
Change blindness
A sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep at tracks. The suffer may lapse directly into REM sleep, often inopportune times
Narcolepsy
Dreams provide a “psychic safety valve” they often express otherwise unacceptable feelings, and contain both manifest and latent content
Wish fulfillment
Dreams help us sort out the day’s events and consolidate our memories.
Information processing
REM sleep triggers impulses that evoke random visual memories, which our sleeping brain waves into stories
Activation synthesis
Regular brain stimulation from REM sleep may help develop and preserve neural pathways
Physiological function
What is the cocktail party effect?
Your ability to attend only one voice among many. “Loose track of time”
Spontaneously
Daydreaming, drowsiness, and dreaming
Physiologically induced
Hallucinations, food or oxygen starvation, sensory deprivation, hypnosis
What type of drug has an initial high then follows by relaxation and disinhibition as well as depression, memory loss, organ damage, and impaired reactions
Alcohol
