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| of both external stimuli and your own mental activity |
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| consciousness holds the thoughts and mental processes that you are aware of from moment to moment |
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| activity includes physiological processes that you are not conscious of. Training in techniques such as biofeedback can make you conscious of them indirectly. |
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| Activity stores sensations, memories, inferences, and assumptions that are not at the conscious level but that can be easily brought into consciousness |
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| Unconscious/Subconscious level |
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| includes mental processes that are important but normally inaccessible |
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| term for stages 3 and 4 of sleep, which are accompanied by slow, deep breathing; a clam, regular heartbeat, and reduced blood pressure |
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the first true sleep stage, shows irregular waves called theta waves. The eyes
also begin to roll lazily. |
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| the EEG shows sleep spindles(rapid bursts of high frequency waves) and K-complexes (waves with high peaks and deep valleys). |
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• Stage 1, the first true
sleep stage, shows
irregular waves called
Stage 3 EEG shows high amplitude, low frequency delta waves(0.5 to 0.3 cps) |
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(waves with high peaks
and deep valleys).
the EEG shows over 50% delta waves. If awakened in this stage, you are groggy and confused. |
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| characterized by EEg and physiological measures (heart rate, respiration, blood pressure) that are similar to hose that occur when the person is awake. During REM sleep, the eyes move rapidly back and forth, and muscle tone decreases to the point of near-paralysis |
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| inability to fall or stay asleep. People with insomnia report feeling tired during the day |
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| Disorder in which people fall directly into REM sleep from an active, waking state. They experience all the physiological changes that occur during REM sleep, including reduced muscle tone |
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| disorder in which people stop breathing momentarily while sleeping, up to hundreds of times per night. Apnea episodes wake the sleepers, and thus people suffering from this disorder feel unrested in the morning and tired throughout the day |
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| a sleeping baby stop breathing but does not awaken and therefore suffocates |
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| frightening dreams that occur during REM sleep |
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| occurs during stage 4 sleep, are frightening dreams that bring on intense fear after waking. These fearful episodes may last for as long as half an hour |
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| occurs during REM sleep. The normal paralysis that accompanies REM sleep is absent, thus allowing a person to act out dreams. This can be especially dangerous when the dreams are of violent nature |
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| Terms of the normal sleep-waking cycle that occurs during a 24 hour period. These cycles are governed by an internal biological clock |
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| knowing during a dream that you are dreaming |
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| people only play the "role" of being hypnotized, which includes complying with the hypnotist's directions |
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| hypnosis is a pecial altered state of consciousness. Supports of the state theory belive that real, significant changes in basic mental processes take place during hypnosis |
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| A blend of role and state theory. It contends that hypnosis is a slitting of the central control of thought processes and behavior. the hypnotized person agrees to give some of the control to the hypnotist. |
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| Bring about psychological changes by affecting the physiological functioning of the brain |
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| Drugs that mimic the effect of a particular neurotransmitter by binding to its receptors |
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| Prevent neurotransmitters from having an effect by blocking receptors' ability to accept specific neurotransmitters |
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| Mental Processing Without Awareness |
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| Research on priming indicates that man important mental operations, such as learning, can occur without awareness |
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| Neuropsychology of Consciousness |
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| Brain damage can impair consciousness. Documented cases include prosopagnosia and anterograde amnesia. |
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| Hypnosis has been used to decrease pain from surgery, childbirth, headaches, and cancer. More controversially, it has been used in attempts to enhance memory. |
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| According to Sternberg's working dfintion, is the combination of three characteristics: the possession of knowledge, the ability to use information processing to reason about the world, and the ability to use information processing to reason about the world, and the ability to employ that reasoning adaptively in different environments |
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| Test was revised version of Binet's original test of cognitive abilities. Each set of age0graded questions could be answered correctly by a substantial majority of the children in that age group. |
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