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| Ordinary Waking Consciousness |
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| Perceptions of though, images, feelings, desires at a given moment. Sense of self comes from the experience of watching yourself. |
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| bodily activities that rarely impinge on consciousness, such as digestion, regulation of blood pressure, and breathing. |
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| Memories that become accessible to consciousness only after something brings attention to it |
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| Stimuli that are not the focus of attention but may be processed below awareness. May become the focus of attention of stimuli become relevant (i.e name at party) |
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| mental processes that cannot be conscious and contains forbidden, traumatic thoughts (according to Freud) |
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| Performed by consciousness to tune out irrelevant information towards immediate goals, (including searching through memory) |
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| Performed by consciousness towards a specific stimuli to analyze, interpret and act upon |
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| Executive functions that suppress strong desire when conflicting with moral, ethical, or practical concerns. |
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Human Time Cycle: influence arousal levels, metabolism, heart rate, body temperature, hormonal activity, and other bodily processes
24 Hours |
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| Electroencephalogram (EEG) |
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Records electrical brainwave activity
(breakthrough in sleep research) |
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14 cps before bed
Stage 1: 3-7
Stage 2: Sleep Spindles (minute bursts of electrical activity) 12-16
Stage 3: Deep relaxation 1-2
Stage 4: Deeper |
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| a return to brain wave activity similar to that found in stages 1 and 2, by rapid eye movements, and by the presence of dreams. |
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First 4 stages
require about 90 minutes. REM sleep about 10 minutes. During the course of a night, this 100- minute cycle is repeated four to six times. |
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| Conservation & Restoration |
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Sleep helps conserve energy for other survival behaviors such as foraging for food, searching for mates, or moving.
Sleep serves a restorative function because neurotransmitters and neuromodulators may be synthesized and their balance restored during sleep. |
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appears to be related to the maintenance of mood and emotion, storing memories, and fitting recent experiences into existing memories. REM sleep may also restore the
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balance of the brain after NREM sleep and be involved in consolidating learning. |
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| Periodic compulsion to fall asleep during the day time |
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| Person stops breathing while asleep, causing them to wake suddenly |
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Occur in NREM
More likely to happen in childhood or after trauma |
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| "Dreams to the royal road of unconsciousness" |
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Freud
Western culture
Dream symbols--universal and personal interpretation |
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Freud believed dreams to be wish fulfillment or strong unconscious desires disguised in dream form
Work backwards from manifest to latent content |
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| Takes forbidden wishes, makes them acceptable, and turns them into dreams |
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Hidden wish or meaning of the dream
(turned into Manifest content through use of Dream Work) |
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| Activation Synthesis Model |
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Dreams are brains way of making sense of random neural activity during sleep
Quest for meaning |
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| Contemporary Theory of Dream Content |
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-Activation Synthesis Model
-Evidence suggests that dreams do not emerge randomly this way. The amygdala and the hippocampus are specifically more active, and studies show dreams reflect our daily lives. |
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Change consciousness by reducing self awareness to enhance self-knowledge and well being
Increase auditory & somatosensory cortex thickness
Concentrated & Mindfulness |
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| Using focus to clear the mind of thought |
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| Allow thoughts to run freely without analysis |
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| Chemicals that affect mental processes such as mood, memory, behavior, and perception by altering conscious awareness |
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| More & more drugs are needed to produce the same amount of change in consciousness |
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| when an individual finds cravings for drugs so strong that they adopt lifestyles which allow use of the drug and often impair functioning. This can occur with or without a physiological dependence. |
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| including both marijuana and hashish, can create mild, pleasurable highs, distortions of space and time, euphoria, and occasionally, hallucination. Possible negative effects include fear, anxiety, paranoia, confusion, and retardation of motor function. Cannabinoids, the active chemical in marijuana, binds to specific receptors in the hippocampus designed for endocannabinoids like anadomide. |
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| heroin, morphine, OxyContin) suppress physical sensation and stimulation and produce a rush of euphoria. These drugs are strongly addictive. |
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| barbiturates and alcohol, tend to depress or slow mental and physical activity of the body by inhibiting the transmission of nerve impulses in the central nervous system at synapses using GABA. |
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| amphetamines, cocaine, and crack, induce a sense of euphoria, self-confidence, and hyperalertness. Possible negative effects include paranoid delusions, cycles of euphoric highs and painful lows, and social isolation |
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