Week 7 Flashcards
(20 cards)
What is consciousness?
Quality state of awareness, hard to define.
Outline the three components of the psychodynamic view of consciousness.
The unconscious - contains all the mental activity, thoughts, memories, impulses, etc. of which you are not aware of at any given moment.
The preconscious - border between the other two; ideas, feelings, memories, thoughts fantasies slip in and out of our awareness. Bring them into consciousness by focusing on them.
The conscious mind - personality, thinking, feeling, of which we are aware of at any given moment.
What is implicit memory and what evidence is there to support it?
Type of memory in which previous experience aid the performance of a task without conscious awareness of these previous experiences.
Priming - subjects are measured by how they have improved their performance on tasks for which they have been subconsciously prepared.
Outline the features of the cognitive view of dreaming.
Dreams are constructed from the daily issues of the dreamer.
Outline the features of the biological view of dreaming.
Dreams represent the attempt of the cortex to interpret the random neural firing of the brain during sleep or the consolidation of newly learnt material.
What occurs at 200 ms after stimulus delivery/onset?
Perception becomes conscious.
What is agency?
Capacity of someone to act in a given situation; the expression of your ‘free will’.
Why do we sleep?
Brain maintenance; flush out metabolic waste in the brain from day’s operations, memory consolidation, memories learned while awake replayed while asleep to strengthen them
What are the 5 different stages of the sleep cycle?
Pre-sleep, light sleep, deep sleep, REM sleep
How long does it take to complete a round of sleep cycle?
90 minutes total.
What happens during the pre-sleep stage?
Awake/calm wakefulness.
What happens during the light sleeps stage?
50% of brain activity - “no, i wasn’t sleep” phase. Then slows down more.
What happens during the deep sleep stages?
Super slow activity - “sleeping like a baby”.
What happens during the REM sleep stage?
Highly active brainwaves, vivid and emotional dreaming, rapid eye movements (REM).
In which sleep stage is the body paralyzed?
REM sleep stage.
Erin spends much of her time daydreaming about what she might do, where she might go, and thinking about her feelings and moods. Psychologists have found that her experiences are what?
A common and normal feature of consciousness.
You host a party and intent to make an alcoholic punch but, halfway through the evening, you realise that you forgot to add the alcohol. Your guests assume that the punch is alcoholic .It is likely that what will happen?
Some of your guests will still behave as if they had had some alcohol.
Jordan is in the first stage of sleep. What are some characteristics of her consciousness at this time?
A ringing telephone could easily awaken her; her breathing is regular; her heart rate and blood pressure are slowing.
According to the biological view of dreaming, dreams what?
Reflect the brains attempt to interpret random neural signals.
Olivia is highly susceptible to hypnosis. Given that, would you expect that her ability to become immersed in films and book to be heightened of dampened?
Heightened.
