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| 4 basic properties of consciousness |
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intensionality
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the quality of being directioiing toward and object
how long can consciousness be directed toward an object, and how many objects can it consider? |
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resistance to division. Trying to do 2 things at once
error rate when attending two tasks is 8 times greater than 1 |
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the capacity to include some objects and not others
cocktail party phenomenon |
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| cocktail party phenomenon |
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| people tune in one message even while they filter out others nearby |
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| consciousness that occurs when the mind inputs sensations and ma output behavior |
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| know and are able to report your mental state |
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| the person's attention is drawn to the self as an object |
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| consciousness if dominated by: |
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the immediate environemtn (what the person is currently seeing, feeling, hearing, tasting, and smelling)
current concern: what the person is thinking aabout repeatedly |
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| the attempt to change conscious states of mind |
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| conscious avoidance of a thought |
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Research participants were first asked not to think about a while bear, and then they were asked to think about it and to ring a bell whenever it came to mind. Compared to those who were simply asking to think about a bear without prior suppression, those people who first suppressed the thought showed a rebound of increased thinking
tendency of a thought to retun to consciousness with greater frequency following suppression |
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| ironic proceses of mental control |
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| ironic errors occur because the mental process that monitors errors can itself produce them |
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an active systm encompassing a lifetime of hidden memories, the person's deepest instincts and desires, and the persons inner struggle to control these forces
Freud |
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a mental precess that removes unacceptable thoughts and memories from consciousness and keeps them in the unconsciou
Freud believed the unconscious is a force to be held in check by repression |
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| mind bug with a special meaning |
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| all the mental processes that are not experienced by the person but that give rise to the person's thoughts, choices, emotions and behavior |
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| thought or behavior is influenced by stimuli that a person cannot consciously report perceiving |
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| The cocktail party phenomenon, in which people tune into one conversatio nwhile filtering out others nearby, illustrates which basic property of consciousness |
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| watchin gyour favorite TV show while studying could seriously interfere with your ability to master the material you are trying to study because of which basic propery of consciousness? |
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| when people are embarrassed or find themselves the focus of attention in a gropu they are experienceing a state known as |
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| all the mental processes that are not experienced by the person but that give rise to the person's thoughts and behaviors are known as |
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| altered state of consciousness |
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a form of experience that departs significantly from the normal subjective experience of the world and the mind
dreams
altered states of mind can be accompanied by changes in thinking, disturbances in the sense of time, feeling of the loss of control, changes in emotional exression, alterations in body image and sense of self, perceptual disortions, and changes in meaning or significance |
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| a naturally occuring 24 hour cycle |
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| when you are alert and high-frequency waves |
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| during relaxation, low frequency waves |
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| Sleep spindles, k complexes |
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| a stage of sleep characterized by rapid eye movement and a high level of brain activity |
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| EGG Patterns during the Stages of Sleep |
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| the waking brain shows high-frequency beta wave activity, which changes during drowsiness and relaxation to lower-frequency alpha waves. Stage 1 sleep shows lower frequency theta waves, which are accompanied in Stage 2 by irregular patterns called sleep spindles and K complexes. Stages 3 and 4 are marked by the lowest frequencies, delta wavs. During RE< sleep, EEG patterns return to high-frequency sawtooth waves that resemble the beta waves of waking |
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| stages of sleep during the night |
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| over the course of the typical night, sleep cycles into deeper stages early on and then more shallow stages later. REM periods become longer in later cycles and the deeper slow-wave sleep of stages 3 and 4 disappears halfway throught the night |
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| difficulty in falling asleep or staying asleep |
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| a disorder in which the person stops breathing for brief periods while asleep |
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| "sleepwaling" a person arises and walks around while asleep |
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a disorder in which sudden sleep attacks occur in the middle of waking activities
genetic basis |
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the experience of waking up unable to move
sometimes associated with narcolepsy |
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abrupt awakenings with panic and intense emotional arousal
mainly in boys ages 3-7 happen most often in non REM sleep early in the sleep cycle and do not usually have dream content the sleeper can report |
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