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Consciousness
Chapter 9 Test
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Psychology
12th Grade
01/25/2006

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Conscious Level
Definition
The level at which mental activities that people are normally aware of occur.
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Nonconscious Level
Definition
A level of mental activity that is inaccessible to conscious awareness.
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Preconscious Level
Definition
A level of mental activity that is not currently conscious, but of which we can easily become conscious.
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Unconscious Level
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A level of mental activity that influences consciousness, but is not conscious. Also known as the subconscious.
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Anerograde amnesia
Definition
A condition in which a person has trouble forming new memories but retains old memories.
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Retrograde amnesia
Definition
Memory loss of information acquired prior to a traumatic incident
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EEG (Electroencephalograph)
Definition
Recording device that monitors muscle movement and muscle tension; electrical activity during sleep
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EOG (Electro-oculograph)
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Recording device to measure eye movements in various sleep stages
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EKG (Elecrocardiograph)
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Recording device that monitors heart rate
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Stage One
Definition
2-5 mins. You experience hallucinations. The alpha waves are replaced by theta waves. Body temp. falls
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Stage Two
Definition
20 mins. Your brain shows specific bursts of activity called sleep spindles and sleep talking could start now or any stage after this.
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Stage Three
Definition
15 mins. Your brain starts showing large and slow delta waves at which you are hard to wake.
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Stage Four
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15 mins. You are now in deep sleep and the brain shows even more delta waves. Bed-wetting and sleep-walking can occur. The body is totally limp.
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REM Sleep
Definition
AKA paradoxical sleep. Cycle happens on average 4 to 6 times a night. Average length is about 90 mins for adults.
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Sigmund Freud's interp on dreams
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Dreams are essentially the fulfillment of wishes
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Manifest Content
Definition
The actual dream; facts, details
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Latent Content
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The hidden part of the dream
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Salience Hypothesis
Definition
A Freudian theory that states emotionally charged dreams have a higher percentage to be remembered because of the nature.
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Interference Hypothesis
Definition
A dream is harder to remember due to the events that happen after the dream takes place
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Lucid Dreaming
Definition
Dreaming in which a peson is aware of dreaming; even though they are sleep
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Activation-synthesis hypothesis
Definition
The idea that dreams represent a blending of thoughts that are produced by spontaneous neural activation during the REM period
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Information-Processing theory
Definition
Stress during the day will increase the number and intensity of dreams during the night
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Microsleeps
Definition
Brief 2 to 5 second bursts of sleep that intrude on wakefulness; usually triggered by sleep deprivation
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REM rebound effect
Definition
When your body will make up for sleep deprivation by making REM longer
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Insomnia
Definition
A person has difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep. Treatment: pills/hypnosis/relazation techniques
Cause: Stress, other medication, depression, anxiety
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Narcolepsy
Definition
A daytime disorder in which a person switches abruptly from an active, often emotional waking state into several minutes of REM sleep. Treatment: pills/planned naps. Cause: lack of the neurotransmitter hypocretin/genetic
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4 Characteristics of Narcolepsy
Definition
1. sleep attacks
2. cataplexy
3. sleep paralysis
4. auditory/visual hallucinations before attack
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Sleep Apnea
Definition
A sleep disorder in which hpeople briefly, but repeatedly, stop breathing during the night.
Treatment: weight loss, nasal mask, psychological help. Cause: obesity, genetic predisposition, compressed windpipe
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Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Definition
During sleep infants stop breathing and die. Usually strikes from 2-4 months, 2 out of every 1000 in the US
Treatment: none. Cause: intense cigarette smoke, inability to wake from sleep, airway becomes blocked, sleeping positions
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Nightmares
Definition
Frightening dreams that take place during REM sleep. Treamtment: imagery therapy, psychological help
Cause: most common PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder)
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Night Terrors
Definition
Horrific dreams that cause rapid awakening form stage 3 or 4 sleep and intense fear up to 30 mins.
Treatment: pills, psychological help
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Sleepwalking (somnambulism)
Definition
Moblie person while sleeping in stage 4. Treatment: pills, conditioning drills
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REM Behavior Disorder
Definition
A sleep disorder in which there is no loss of muscle tone during REM sleep, allowing the person to act out their dreams. Treatment: pills, very effective Cause: narcolepsy, stress
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Circadian rhythm
Definition
A cycle, such as waking and sleeping, that repeats about once a day. Linked to signals such as light and day. Tehse cycles can continue to run without time cues. Include most endocrine activity
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Jet Lag
Definition
Traveling across time zones. Changing from day to night shifts. Suprachiasmatic nuclei; hypothalamus
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Hypnosis
Definition
Sleeplike state that a person enters with the aid of another person
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Post Hypnotic Suggestion
Definition
REsponse to suggestion given under hypnosis after emerging from the state
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Post Hypnotic Amnesia
Definition
Complete and total forgetting of the session
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State Theory
Definition
Hypnosis is an altered state of consciousness. Reducing pain or a physical illness
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Dissociation Theory
Definition
A blend of the role and state theories. Almost a split of consciousness. Hypnosis is a socially agreed upon oportunity to display one's ability to let mental functions become dissociated
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Hidden Observer
Definition
During hypnosis part of consciousness is unaffected by the hypnosis procedure and appears to monitor unconscious operation
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Agonists
Definition
Some drugs are similar enough to a particular neurotransmitter to fool its receptors, they bind to the receptor and mimic the effects of the normal neurotransmitter
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Antagonists
Definition
Drugs that are similar enough to a neurotransmitter to occupy its receptors but cannont mimic its effects; they bind to a receptor and prevent the normal neurotransmitter from binding
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