States of Consciousness
State of focused awareness
What is Attention
An inability to stay asleep or fall asleep
What is Insomnia
The inability to recall what happened during hypnosis
What is posthypnotic amnesia
A chemical substance that alters perceptions and moods
What are Psycoactive Drugs
The founder of psychoanalysis; his approach to therapy included dream interpretation, which he believed could reveal insights about the unconscious mind
Who is Sigmund Freud
Awareness of the outside world and of ourselves, including our own process, thoughts, feelings, and perceptions
What is Consciousness
When you fall directly into REM sleep
What is Narcolepsy
A type of meditation that requires the person to focus on moment-to-moment thoughts and sensations
What is mindfulness meditation
Drugs that reduce neural activity and slow body functions
What are Depressants
Founder of functionalism who maintained that psychology should aim to understand how consciousness helps organisms adapt to their environments
Who is William James
Level of consciousness that is outside of awareness but contains feelings and memories that can easily be brought to consciousness awareness
What is Preconscious
A theory called that explains that the cerebral cortex tries to integrate experiences generated by random electrical brain impulses to form meaningful patterns
What is activation-synthesis
A type of meditation that requires the repetition of a sound or mantra to focus ones attention
What is transcendental meditation
Drugs that distort perceptions and evoke sensory images without there being a real sensory input
What are hallucinogens
A hypnotic theory that is a special altered state of consciousness where you are more or less aware of your environment
What is State Theory
Level of consciousness that includes often unacceptable feelings, wishes, and thoughts not directly available to conscious awareness
What is Subconscious / Unconscious
A dreams symbolic or hidden meanings
What is latent content
A suggestion made during a hypnosis session that will be carried out when you are no longer hypnotized
What is Posthypnotic Suggestion
Drugs that excite neural activity and speed up body functions
What are stimulants
He conducted research on hypnosis and used hypnotherapy to treat pain in his patients
Who is Ernest Hilgard
A state of consciousness can we perform two different tasks simultaneously (auto pilot)
What is divided consciousness
Our biological clock
What is circadian rhythm
A test that shows hypnotic influence by observing the reaction of a person under hypnosis when their hand is placed in ice water
What is a cold pressor test
A drug that can reduce pain by depressing the central nervous system
What are narcotics
Hypnotic theory where people voluntarialy divide their consciousness in which one part responds and the other part remains quiet and watches
What is Dissociation Theory