Consciousness
“the subjective state of being currently aware of something either within oneself or outside of oneself”
What is consciousness?
First stage of sleep.
What is REM (Rapid Eye Movement)?
Sensory systems.
What are ears, eyes, nose, mouth, and hands?
How long is the average dream?
90 minutes
Drugs that blunt your perception of pain.
What are narcotics?
Founded psychology as a science-based on exploring consciousness and its contents
Who was Wilhelm Wundt and Edward Titchener?
Excessive daytime sleepiness.
What is narcolepsy?
The ability to focus awareness on a small segment of information that is available through our sensory systems.
What is selective attention?
Average amount of dreams per night.
4-6
A doctor who administers the drugs to keep you in a deeper-then-sleep state.
What is an anesthesiologist?
Psychologist who believed conciousness was a "stream" the provides a sense of day to day continuity.
Who was Willam James?
Brain waves that indicate an alert, awake state.
What are beta waves?
Wakefulness, sleepiness, dreaming, and hypnotic are what?
Levels of consciousness
True or False? Everyone needs 8 hours of sleep each night.
False
Substances that cause changes in conscious experiences.
What are psychoactive drugs?
Attending to information with little or no conscious effort or awareness
What is automatic processing?
An abrupt loss of strength or muscle tone that occurs when a person is awake.
What is cataplexy?
The psychologists that insisted that psychology should only study observable behavior.
Who were John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner.
Two content levels of dreams.
Latent and manifest.
Three major categories are:
- Depressants
- Stimulants
- Hallucinogens
Why can conciousness only be experinced by one person?
It is subjective, which is a barrier to consciousness.
The body's "master clock"
What is the suprachiasmatic nucleus?
Technology used to search for neurons that may act as switches for different states of consciousness.
What is Optogenetics?
A theory that says "There is a high degree of similarity between thinking when we are awake and the cognitive activity of dreaming."
What is the Neurocognitive Theory of Dreams?
Most commonly used depressant.
What is alcohol?