Week 9 Flashcards
(21 cards)
Awareness
A conscious experience or the capability of having conscious experiences, which is distinct from self-awareness, the conscious understanding of one’s own existence and individuality
Conscious experience
The first-person perspective of a mental event, such as feeling some sensory input, an idea, an emotion, a mood, or a continuous temporal sequence of happenings
Contemplative science
Research area concerned with understanding how contemplative practices such as meditation can affect individuals, including changes in their behavior, their emotional reactivity, their cognitive abilities, and their brains
First-person perspective
Observations made by individuals about their own conscious experiences, also known as introspection or a subjective point of view
Third-person perspective
Observations made by individuals in a way that can be independently confirmed by other individuals to lead to general, objective, understanding
Blood alcohol content
A measure of the percentage of alcohol found in a person’s blood
Circadian rhythm
The psychological sleep-wake cycle
Consciousness
The awareness or deliberate perception of a stimulus
Cues
A stimulus that has a particular significance to the perciever
Depressants
A class of drugs that slow down the body’s physiological and mental processes
Dissociation
The heightened focus on one stimulus or thought such that many other things around you are ignored; a disconnect between one’s awareness of their environment and the one object the person is focusing on
Euphoria
An intense feeling of pleasure, excitement, or happiness
Flexible correction model
The ability for people to correct or change their beliefs and evaluations if they believe these judgements have been biased
Halluginogens
Substances that, when ingested, alter a person’s perceptions, often by creating hallucinations that are not real or distorting their perceptions of time
Hypnosis
The state of consciousness whereby a person is highly responsive to the suggestions of another
Hypnotherapy
The use of hypnotic techniques such as relaxation and suggestion to help engineer desirable change such as lower pain or quitting smoking
Implicit associations test
A reaction time test that measures a person’s automatic association with concepts
Mindfulness
A state of heightened focus on the thoughts passing through one’s head, as well as a more controlled evaluation of those thoughts
Priming
The activation of certain thoughts or feelings that make them easier to think of and act upon
Stimulants
A class of drugs that speed up the body’s physiological and mental processes
Trance states
A state of consciousness characterized by the experience of “out-of-body possession”
