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Chapter 3
Consciousness
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
09/29/2011

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Consciousness
Definition
the awareness of ones self and the enviornment
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Cognitive Neuroscience
Definition
Study of how brain activity is linked to mental processes
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Selective Attention
Definition
Focus conscious awareness on particular stimulus
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Cocktail Party Effect
Definition
Attending to one voice among many
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Inattentional Blindness
Definition
Failing to see a visible object when our attention is directed elsewhere
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Change Deafness
Definition
Not noticing that the speaker changes
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Pop-out
Definition
Very powerful stimuli attracting our attention
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Alpha Waves
Definition
Slow brain waves in relaxed but awake stage
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Stage 1 Sleep
Definition
Sensory Sensations similar to hallucinations called hypnagognic sensations
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Stage 2
Definition
Bursts of brain activity called sleep Spindles, also known as brain waves
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Delta Waves
Definition
Large, slow brain waves that occur first in stage 3 and increase in stage 4.
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Stage 4
Definition
Delta waves, sleep walking, sleep talking and night terrors can occur in this stage
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REM sleep
Definition
AKA paradoxical sleep. Motor cortex is active but muscles are relaxed. Heart rate increases, internal arousal, rapid breathing and REM occurs. 20 to 25 percent of nights sleep is spent in this
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Ghreline
Definition
Appetite enhancer
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Leptin
Definition
Appetite suppressant
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Narcolepsy
Definition
Uncontrollable sleep attacks, collapsing directly into REM sleep and experience a loss of muscular tension. Linked to low levels of neurotransmitter orexin which is linked to alertness
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Sleep Apnea
Definition
Stop breathing while sleeping, prevalent in fat people
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Night terrors
Definition
extreme fright, happen only during stage 4
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Freud's Theory
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Dreams are filled with manifest content which is symbolic of the true meaning or latent content. dreams reflect erotic wishes and served as a psychic safety valve that discharge otherwise unacceptable feelings.
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Activation Synthesis theory
Definition
Brain are elicited by random bursts of neural activity, dreams are the brains attempt to make sense of this activity
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Age regression
Definition
Idea that we can relive childhood experiences through hypnosis. Has no research to back it up
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Post hypnotic suggestions
Definition
Help people alleviate headaches, asthma and stress related skin disorders. Can treat obesity as well but not smoking drug or alcohol addictions.
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Social Influence Theory
Definition
Theory that hypnotic subjects may simply be imaginative actors playing a social role
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Dissociation
Definition
Split between levels of consciousness. For ex. there is a split between sensory and emotional aspects of pain.
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Psychoactive drugs
Definition
Any drugs that alter your mood and perception
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Barbiturates
Definition
AKA Tranquilizers. Depressants that induce sleep and reduce anxiety
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Hypnagognic
Definition
Happens during transition state between awake and asleep aka stage 1 dream sensation similar to hallucinations, lack narrative content
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Amphetamines
Definition
Stimulant, speed up bodily functions and neural activity
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Methamphetamines
Definition
Addictive stimulant that speeds up bodily functions and changes mood
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