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- Alertness
- Self-Awareness
- Having Free Will
- "our awareness of ourselves and our enviornment."
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- Spontaneaously; daydreaming,drowsiness,dreaming
- Psysiologically induced; hallucinations,orgasm,food or oxygen starvation
- Psychologically induced;sensory deprivation,hypnosis,mediation
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Our minds take deliberate actions we know we're doing
(i.e. problem solving,naming an object, defining a word) |
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| Unconscious "Low" Track Mind |
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Our minds perdorm automatic actions,often without being aware of them.
(i.e. walking,acquiring phobias,processing sensory details into perceptions and memory) |
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| Our brain is able to choose a focus and select what to notice |
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| Ability to focus our mental spotlight on a conversation even when other conversations are going on |
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| What we are not focused on, what we DO NOT notice |
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| The body's natural 24-hr cycle |
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| Distinct patersn of brain waves and muscle activity that are associate with different types of conscousness and sleep |
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- Rise in heart rate
- Sleep Paralysis occurs
- Genitals become aroused
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| brainstem blocks the motor cortext's messages and the muscles don't move |
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| The body and brain is active but the body is immobile |
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| persistent inability to fall asleep or stay asleep |
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| Sleep attacks, even a collapse into REM sleep, at inoppurtune times |
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| repeated awakening after breathing stops |
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- Occurs in Sleep Stage 3
- refers to sudden scared looking behavior with rapid heartbeat and breathing
- mostly in children
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- run in families, genetic basis
- Occurs in children
- Occurs in Sleep Stage 3
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| dreams are diguised symbols (manifest or latent content) of repressed desires and anxieties |
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| diguised psychological meaning of dreams |
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| dreams are simple by-products af random stimulation of brain cells |
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| Dreams are an improtant part of info processing of our everyday experiences |
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| A cooroperative social action in which one person is in a state of being likely to respond to suggestions from another person |
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| Heightened suggestibility |
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| Divided Conciousness Theory |
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| hypnosis is a state dissociated conciousness of our dual-track mind |
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| Hypnotic subjecys may simply be imaginative people who go along with the "subject" role they have agreed to play |
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| Chemicals introduced into the body which alter percepton,mood, and other elements of concious experience |
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| Diminished psychoactive effects after repeated use |
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- painful symptoms of the body readjusting to the absence of the drug
- worsens addictions because users want to resume takign drug to make symptoms stop
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| the body has been altered in ways that create cravings for the drug |
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| a person's resources for coping with daily life wither as a drugs becomes "needed" to relax, socialize, or sleep |
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| Factors that Determine Addiction |
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- Tolerance
- Withdrawl
- Using more than intended
- Failed attempts to regulate use
- Much time spent on drug
- Important activites reduced
- Continued use despite acersive consequences
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- Chemicals that reduce neural activity and other body funtions
- Alcohol, barbiturates, opiates
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- Slows neural processing
- Reduces memory formation
- Impairs self control
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- Tranqualizers (i.e. valium, trazadone, xanax)
- Reduces anxiety and induces sleep
- Reduces memory, judgement and concetration
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- Depress nervous system activity
- Produce euphoria
- Heroin, opium, morphine
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Intensify neural activity and bodily functions
(i.e. dilate pupils, increase breathing) |
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- Adds energy
- Disrupts sleep for 3-4 hours
- Withdrawl = headaches and irritability
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- blocks reuptakes of dopamine, seratonin, and norepinephrine
- Euphoria occurs for 45 minutes and then a crash happens
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- Triggers the sustained release of dopamine
- Withdrawl = irritability, insomnia, seizures, hypertension, violence, depression
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- Synthetic stimulant that increases dopamine and greatly increases serotonin
- Euphoria, hallucinations, artifical feeling of social connectedness and intamacy
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- Interveres with seratonin levels causing hallucinations
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- Binds with cannabinoid receptors
- aplifies sensations
- Disinibits impulses
- Euphoric mood
- Lack of ability to sense satiety (ability to feel full) (i.e. MUCHIESS!)
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| Biological Factors (of drug dependece) |
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- genetic predispositions (dependence in relatives, thrill seeking in childhood, etc.)
- variation in neurotransmitter systems
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| Psychological Factors (of drug dependece) |
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- lacking sense of purpose
- significant stress
- psychological disorders (i.e. depression)
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| Social-cultural Factors (of drug dependence) |
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- Urban enviornment
- cultural attitude toward drug use
- peer influences
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