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an awareness of ones surroundings and of what is in ones mind at a given moment
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| refers to the degree of alertness, whether or not you are awake or asleep |
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| refers to the monitoring of information from the environment and from ones own thoughts |
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coma-eyes closed and the person unresponsive and unarousable
vegetative state-a state of minimal consciousness in which the eyes might be open, but the person is otherwise responsive (wakefulness without awareness) |
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| moderate consciousness/preconscious |
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refers to the material that is potentially accessible but not currently available to awareness
-sleeping & dreaming |
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| bored/drowsy/flow (ability to rise to challenging tasks), mindfulness (heightened awareness in the moment) |
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focusing and consciousness
-how we direct the spotlight of awareness |
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| ability to zone out what you're not focusing your awareness on (specific focus on certain features in the environment, while ignoring others) |
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phenomena when we fail to notice unexpected objects in our surrounding
ex. gorilla suits walking through when people were supposed to count the bball team doing something, you don't notice certain other things when focusing hard on one thing |
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| the ability to maintain focused awareness on a target |
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| two essential features of sleep |
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1. there is a perceptual wall between the conscious mind and the outside world
2. the sleeping state can be immediately reversed |
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| the variations in the physiological process that cycle within approx a 24 hour period |
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| Rapid Eye Movement-quick movements of the eye that occur during sleep (thought to mark phases of dreaming) |
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| when we are awake, brain activity is characterized by rapid low energy waves |
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| when we are awake, but relaxed and drowsy our brain activity switches to slower and slightly higher energy waves |
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| 2nd major form of sleep-few eye movements (those that do occur are slower) |
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| what type of energy waves in stage 1? |
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| slower in energy than alpha waves |
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| light sleep and not much stimulation is needed to awaken, no longer responsive to outside world |
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| theta waves show short period of really fast/higher energy sleep spindles |
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| theta waves with some higher energy delta waves |
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| back to sleep spindles and k-complexes, then the theta waves, when we return to stage 1 we enter REM sleep before the whole process starts again |
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| how many different cycles do adults move through of REM/non-REM a night? |
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| 4-6 diff cycles, each lasts around 90 min |
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| 3 major restorative processes of sleep (functions) |
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1. neural growth
2. memory consolidation
3. protection against cellular damage |
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| a temporary blockage of the airway, person actually stops breathing for short amounts of time |
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| exists when a person sleeps more than 10 hours a day for 2 weeks or more, involves strong urges to nap throughout the day |
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| succession of images, thoughts, feelings we experience during sleep |
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| Theories of dream interpretation |
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psychoanalytic theory; different levels of our conscoiusness-manifest level (surface) vs. true meaning in latent level
biological theory (activation, input, mode)
cognitive theory: some of the standard processes that we use during our waking life operate during dreaming |
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| drugs that affect our state of consciousness |
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| psychoactive drugs, stimulants (caffeine, cocaine, ecstasy), depressents (alcohol), hallucinogens |
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