Consciousness
Awareness of oneself & one’s environment
Consciousness
This is the stage between consciousness and sleep
N1
Placing one's awareness on a single stimuli to reduce ones tension
Meditation
Nicotine, caffeine, cocaine, and methamphetamine are examples of which class of psychoactive drugs?
Stimulants
Sigmund Freud suggested that dreams provide a safe way to discharge unacceptable urges & feelings
Wish fulfillment
Info not in the conscious (or what you are thinking at the moment), but can be retrieved. Ex: What did you do last night? You can retrieve that info (memories, stored knowledge)
Preconscious
Characterized by sleep spindles
N-REM 2
Some uses for hypnosis are
pain control, treatment therapy
Ecstasy falls in these 2 categories at the same time
Stimulant and hallucinogen
The theory that dreams may help make and consolidate long-term memories
Information processing theory
Unacceptable thoughts, memories, wishes in which we are unaware, but still control our behavior. This info is hidden and Freud loved to study it.
Subconscious or Unconscious Level
This is your biological clock; regular bodily rhythms that occur on a 25-hour cycle
Circadian Rhythm
Three types of meditation
Transcendental, mindfulness, breathing
Alcohol, heroin, and barbiturates are examples of which class of psychoactive drugs?
Depressants
Suggests that the brain engages in a lot of random neural activity and the brain makes sense of this by creating a story
Activation-synthesis model
Mental process that goes on in which the individual is unaware. (Our basic biological functions)
Nonconscious
This is a stage where Voluntary Muscle activity is paralyzed and you have vivid dreams
REM
This is the process of learning to control bodily states with the help of machines monitoring the states being controlled
Biofeedback
Cannabis and LSD are examples of this type of psychoactive drug
Hallucinogens
Reasons why we sleep
Helps in recovery, consolidate memories, creative thinking, supports growth
These are the three terms most closely associated with Freud
Id, ego, superego
This stage of sleep is when children often wet the bed or sleepwalk (deepest sleep stage)
N-REM 3
These are said to be some of the benefits of meditation
Lowers blood pressure, heart rate & respiration
Effects of depressants
§GABA (Increase)
§motor skills (decrease)
§Judgment and aggressiveness
§Memory (smaller hippocampus)
§reduced self awareness
§represses REM sleep
According to Freudian theory, dreams are wish fulfillment with the ______________________ (apparent) content of the dream serving as a censored version of the _____________________ (hidden) content.
manifest, latent