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1. Actively choosing not to think about something involves: |
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| reverse process of mental control. |
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| In trying not to think of a white bear you may find yourself thinking of white bears. A proposed explanation for this is referred to as: |
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1. You wake up your roommate 90 minutes after he falls asleep. From what stage are you waking him? |
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| Withdrawal symptoms such as pain or hallucinations are indications of |
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the practice of intentional contemplation |
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| decreased; posterior superior parietal lobe |
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1. A study with Buddhist practitioners found _____ activation in the _____ , the area of the brain used for orienting ourselves in known spaces. |
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- Performance on the dichotic listening task illustrates the selectivity of consciousness.
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- One should only wake a sleepwalker in life threatening situations.
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| A person's subjective experience of the world and the mind. |
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| 4 properties of consciousness |
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- Intentionality
- unity
- selectivity
- transcience
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| how things seem to the conscious person |
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| the fundamental difficulty we have in perceiving the consciousness of others. |
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| The issue of how the mind is related to he brain and body. |
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4 basic properties of Consciousness
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- Intentionality- the quality of being directed toward object.
- Unity-resistance to division
- selectivity-the capacity to include some objects but not other.
- Transience-the tendency to change.
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| A task in which people wearing headphones hear different messages presented each ear. |
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| cocktail party of phenonmenon |
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| A phenonmenon in which people tune in one message even while they filter out others nearby. |
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A low-level kind of sensory awareness and responsiveness that occurs when the mind input sensation and may output behavior.
- we not are of it
- ex nervous habits
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Conciousness in which you know and are able to report your mental state.
- being aware of what we are thinking/feeling and why we are thinking/ feeling it
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A distinct level of consciousness in which the person's attention is drawn to the self as an object.
- thinking about physical appearance
- being embarrassed
- awareness of one's self
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| subliminal perception- thought or behavior is influenced by stimuli that person cannot consciously report perceiving. |
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| A mental process that remove unacceptable thought and memories from consciousness. |
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| An active system encompassing a lifetime of hidden memories, the person's deepest instincts and desires, and the person's inner struggle to control these forces. |
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| The mental processes that give rise to a person's thoughts, choices, emotions, and behavior even though they are not experienced by the person. |
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- 1st stages-Theta wave- body relaxes/ calm down/7minutes
- 2nd stages-sleep spindle & K complexes-more brain activity
- 3rd and 4th stages- Delta Waves, deeper sleep
- 5th Stage: REM; Saw-tooth, rapid eye movement; dreaming.
- each REM Cycle is about 90min
- brain take in everything learned and process it; make long term memory.
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Difficulty in falling sleep or staying asleep.
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A disorder in which the person stops breathing for brief period while asleep.
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| somnambulism(sleepwalking) |
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occurs when the person arises and walk around while asleep.
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| A disorder in which sudden sleep attacks occur in the middle of waking activities. |
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| 5 major characteristics of dream consciousness that distinguish it from the walking state. |
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- emotion-terror,love, or awe.
- thought-illogical
- Sensation-is fully formed and meaningful
- uncritical acceptance-image and events were perfectly normal rather than bizarre.
- difficult to remember
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| the experience of waking up unable to move |
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| night terror (or sleep terror) |
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| Abrupt awakenings with panic and intense emotional arousal |
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| A dream's apparent topic or superficial meaning |
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| A person's true underlying meaning |
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| activation-synthesis model |
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| The theory that dreams are produced when the brain attempts to make sense of activations that occur randomly during sleep. |
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| an altered state of consciousness characterized by suggestibility and the feeling that one actions are occuring involuntarily. |
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| the failure to retrieve memories following hypnotic suggestions to forget |
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