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Chapter 5
States of Consciousness
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Physiology
Undergraduate 1
04/26/2009

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Sensations, perceptions, memories, and feelings we are aware of at any instant.
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Consciousness
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State of clear, organized alertness in which we perceive times, places and events as real, meaningful, and familiar.
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Waking Consciousness
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Changes in the quality and pattern of mental activity, with shifts in perceptions, emotions, memory, time sense thinking, feelings of self-control, and suggestibility.
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Altered States of Consciousness
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Four Examples of Altered States of Consciousness.
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Drugs, Sleep, Meditation/Sensory Deprivation, Hypnosis
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24 hour cycle of being awake and asleep; alerting system and sleep drive.
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Circadian Rhythms
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Doesn't make sense, not common sense. The paradox is the mind is very active but the body is inactive.
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Paradoxical Sleep
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Nodding off and waking oup not a short nap but brief instant of falling asleep.
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Microsleeps
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Theories of REM Sleep (3)
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Psychodynamic Dream Theory, Information processing, REM Rebound
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An attempt ot explain how dream content is affected by motor commands in the brain that occur during sleep, but are not carried out.
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Activation-Synthesis Hypothesis
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