WEEK 6-8: CONSCIOUSNESS

Question 1

Sensory awareness of the environment

Answer 1

CONSCIOUSNESS

Question 2

Refers to the different levels of awareness of one’s thoughts and feelings

Answer 2

AWARENESS

Question 3

The focus of consciousness on a particular stimulus

Answer 3

SELECTIVE ATTENTION

Question 4

Knowledge of one’s own thoughts, feelings, and memories; overthinking

Answer 4

DIRECT INNER AWARENESS

Question 5

Materials that are not in awareness but can be brought into awareness by focusing one’s attention

Answer 5

PRECONSCIOUS

Question 6

Involves descriptive of ideas and feelings that are not available to awareness and are also without consciousness

Answer 6

UNCONSCIOUS

Question 7

Memories that are outside of awareness and inaccessible

Answer 7

UNCONSCIOUS

Question 8

The unconscious ejection of anxiety-evoking ideas, impulses, or images from awareness

Answer 8

REPRESSION

Question 9

The “deliberate” placing of certain ideas, impulses, or images out of awareness

Answer 9

SUPPRESSION

Question 10

Bodily processes such as growing hair, of which we cannot be conscious

Answer 10

NONCONSCIOUS

Question 11

Information that is out of consciousness and not immediately available to consciousness

Answer 11

SUBCONSCIOUS

Question 12

It is not something you are actively thinking about or aware of in a given moment, but it can still have an impact on your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors

Answer 12

SUBCONSCIOUS

Question 13

It is everything we think about while we are awake

Answer 13

WAKING STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Question 14

It includes a mixture of sensation from the body, memories of the past, thoughts, feelings, perceptions and images, and expectations about the future that occur when we are awake and reasonable alert

Answer 14

WAKING STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Question 15

A radial deviation from the overall pattern of functioning of the mind during the ordinary waking consciousness such that a new, overall pattern is superimposed on one’s experience

Answer 15

ALTERED STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Question 16

State of trans/hypnosis

Answer 16

ALTERED STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Question 17

It is described as alternating periods of wakefulness and sleep reflect an internally generated circadian rhythm

Answer 17

SLEEP

Question 18

It is like a body clock that helps regulate various biological processes over a roughly 24-hour cycle

Answer 18

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM

Question 19

Where is the circadian rhythm located?

Answer 19

HYPOTHALAMUS

Question 20

A “quiet sleep” because of the minimal eye movement

Answer 20

NON-RAPID EYE MOVEMENT SLEEP (NREM)

Question 21

A stage of sleep characterized by rapid eye movements, which have been linked to dreaming

Answer 21

RAPID EYE MOVEMENT (REM) SLEEP

Question 22

“Rapid low” amplitude brain waves that have been linked to feelings of relaxation

Answer 22

ALPHA WAVES

Question 23

A type of brain waves produced when you are awake but relaxed and not actively concentrating on something

Answer 23

ALPHA WAVES

Question 24

Slow brain waves produced during the hypnagogic state

Answer 24

THETA WAVES

Question 24

How much frequency does alpha brain waves have?

Answer 24

IN THE RANGE OF 8 TO 13 CYCLE PER SECOND (HERTZ)

Question 25

Associated with a state of deep relaxation, daydreaming, and light sleep

Answer 25

THETA WAVES

Question 26

Commonly observed during the early stages of sleep, especially during the transition from wakefulness to a more profound sleep state

Answer 26

THETA WAVES

Question 27

How much frequency does theta waves have?

Answer 27

4 TO 8 CYCLES PER SECOND

Question 28

Strong, slow brain waves usually emitted during stag 4 of sleep

Answer 28

DELTA WAVES

Question 29

Brain wave that the brain produces during deep sleep

Answer 29

DELTA WAVES

Question 30

How much frequency does delta waves have?

Answer 30

LOW FREQUENCY RANGING FROM 0.5 TO 4 CYCLES

Question 31

Stage of sleep where eye and muscle activity slows; brain activity decreases 50%; sleeper may experience sudden mucle contractions

Answer 31

STAGE 1

Question 31

Stage of sleep where the eye movement and muscle activity stops; slow brain waves; sleep spindles begin

Answer 31

STAGE 2

Question 32

Stage of sleep where deep sleep starts; brain begins to produce very slow delta waves; no eye or muscle movement; difficult to wake the sleeper

Answer 32

STAGE 3

Question 33

Stage of sleep where the brain only produces delta waves; sleeper may be disoriented if awakened

Answer 33

STAGE 4

Question 34

Stage of sleep where heart and breathing rates increases; eye movement is quick and irregular; blood pressure rises; breathing becomes shallow; muscles of the chin, neck, torso are paralyzed; sleeper begins to dream

Answer 34

REM STAGE

Question 35

What does it mean when the eye movement is rapid while asleep?

Answer 35

THAT THE BRAIN IS ACTUALLY WORKING

Question 36

Chemical produced in the brain to render the body temporarily paralyzed to prevent acting out our dream

Answer 36

GAMMA AMINOBUTYRIC ACID (GABA)

Question 37

A discipline that studies how universal patterns of behavior and cognitive processes have evolved over time as a result of natural selection

Answer 37

EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY

Question 38

THEORY OF SLEEP: Sleep is essential to restore resources expended during the day (energy) Sleep is an adaptive response to predatory risks

Answer 38

ADAPTIVE FUNCTION OF SLEEP

Question 39

THEORY OF SLEEP: Sleep deprivation results in disruptions in cognitive and memory deficits leading to impairments in our abilities to maintain attention, make decisions, and recall long-term memories

Answer 39

COGNITIVE FUNCTION OF SLEEP

Question 40

A sleep disorder where an individual may wake up several times during sleep during the night only to find out that they have difficulty getting back to sleep; lack of sleep for 3 nights a week for at least one month's time

Answer 40

INSOMNIA

Question 41

A sleep disorder where a person falls asleep suddenly

Answer 41

NARCOLEPSY

Question 42

"Sleep attack" that may last 15 minutes or so

Answer 42

NARCOLEPSY

Question 43

Lose of muscle control

Answer 43

CATAPLEXY

Question 44

Accompanied by collapse of muscle control or the entire body -- a condition called sleep paralysis

Answer 44

NARCOLEPSY

Question 45

Caused by lack of neurotransmitter called hypocretin (or orexin)

Answer 45

NARCOLEPSY

Question 46

A dangerous sleep disorder in which the air passages are obstructed

Answer 46

APNEA

Question 47

A form of sleep apnea where the airway becomes blocked or collapses during sleep

Answer 47

OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA (OSA)

Question 48

A form of sleep apnea where the brain fails to send proper signal to the muscles that control breathing

Answer 48

CENTRAL POSITIVE AIRWAY PRESSURE (CPAP)

Question 49

A person with this disorder feels uncomfortable sensations in the legs during periods of inactivity or when trying to fall asleep.

Answer 49

RESTLESS LEG SYNDROME

Question 50

This discomfort is relieved by deliberately moving the legs, which not surprisingly, contributes to difficulty in falling or staying asleep

Answer 50

RESTLESS LEG SYNDROME

Question 51

A sometimes bizarre and often dangerous sleep disorder

Answer 51

REM BEHAVIORS DISORDERS

Question 51

A deep-sleep disorder that is similar to, but severe than nightmares, which occur during REM sleep

Answer 51

SLEEP TERRORS

Question 52

A deep-sleep disorder where a person is never fully awake, returns to sleep, and may recall a vague image as if someone pressing on their chest

Answer 52

SLEEP TERRORS

Question 53

A deep-sleep disorder that probably reflects immaturity of the nervous system. In most cases, it resolves before adolescence, often by age 8.

Answer 53

BED-WETTING

Question 54

This disorder causes sleepers to act out their dreams, especially when the dreams are scary or dramatic

Answer 54

SLEEPWALKING

Question 54

THEORY OF DREAM: If we are preoccupied with illness or death, sex or aggression, or moral dilemmas, we are likely to dream about them

Answer 54

DREAM AS "THE RESIDUE OF THE DAY"

Question 54

THEORY OF DREAMS: You may recall dreams involving fantastic adventures, but most dreams involve memories of the day-gone; extension of wakefulness

Answer 54

DREAMS AS "THE RESIDUE OF THE DAY"

Question 55

THEORY OF DREAMS: Freud theorized that dreams reflect unconscious wishes and urges. The content of dreams is symbolic of unconscious fantasized objects such as the genitals.

Answer 55

DREAMS AS THE EXPRESSION OF UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES

Question 55

THEORY OF DREAMS: This model views that acetylcholine and the pons activate the reticular activating system, which stimulates the cortex, but not to the point of waking; the cortex then synthesizes the cognitive activity into a dream

Answer 55

THE ACTIVATION-SYNTHESIS MODEL

Question 56

THEORY OF DREAMS: This model challenges the idea that dreams always have psychological meanings and suggests that they may be more like the brain's way of interpreting its own activity during rest

Answer 56

THE ACTIVATION-SYNTHESIS MODEL