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, methamphetamine, ecstasy are examples of which class of psychoactive drugs?
Stimulants
This theory holds that sleep protects us from danger such as accidents in the dark or being at risk of attack by predators.
Adaptive theory
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 and "K-complexes"
REM
Some uses for hypnosis are
pain control, treatment therapy
Caffeine is an agonist for which neurotransmitter?
Adenosine
Theory argues that REM sleep is important for the restructuring and reorganizing of the brain that would be involved in normal development as well as in processes related to learning and memory.
Brain plasticity 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
This is the amount of time suggested by professionals in order to reach a sufficient meditative state
10-15 mins
Alcohol, heroin are examples of which class of psychoactive drugs?
Depressants
This theory holds that information experienced during waking hours can influence synthesis of dreams
Activation-information-mode model
Mental process that goes on in which the individual is unaware. (Our basic biological functions)
Nonconscious
This is a stage of very deep sleep - Delta Waves Voluntary Muscles activity is paralyzed
N3
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
Theory argues that dreams are the “royal road” to the unconscious
Psychoanalytic (Freudian) theory
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
N3
These are said to be some of the benefits of meditation
Lowers blood pressure, heart rate & respiration
Scopolamine is an agonist for which neurotransmitter?
Acetylcholine (ACH)
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