This refers to the separation of certain personality components or mental processes from conscious though
What is dissociation
100
Typically, schizophrenia first appears in people who are this age
What is young adulthood (late teens & early twenties)
100
This refers to our ability to focus on a particular stimulus and screen out others
What is selective attention
100
This is the stage of sleep in which the most vivid and realistic dreams occur. This is also the stage of sleep in which we breathe more irregularly, our blood pressure rises, and our hearts beat faster.
What is REM Sleep (Rapid-Eye-Movement Sleep)
200
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is characterized by a person having
two or more personalities
200
In most cases, people with schizophrenia report this type of hallucination
What is Auditory Hallucination
200
This is the level of consciousness that holds the ideas that are not in your awareness right now, but that could be recalled by turning your inner awareness (attention) to them.
What is Preconscious
200
What happened to lab mice after just five days without sleep?
They died
300
This rare disorder is characterized by not only forgetting personal information and past events but also by suddenly relocating from home or work and taking on a completely new identity
What is Dissociative Fugue
300
This is a symptom of one type of schizophrenia in which people go into an immobile, expressionless, coma-like state. People in this state typically hold unusual, uncomfortable body positions for long periods of time
What is a catatonic stupor
300
This is the level of consciousness that Sigmund Freud theorized about. This is the part of consciousness that is unavailable to awareness under most circumstances
What is the Unconscious
Daily Double: Give one example of how the unconscious works on a daily basis
300
Stage ____________ is the lightest stage of sleep, while stages _____________ & ______________ are the deepest stages of sleep
Stage One
Stage Three
Stage Four
400
People with this type of disorder have psychological problems (such as depression) but experience inexplicable physical symptoms (Such as not being able to move parts of their bodies)
List 3 of the 5 main ways that consciousness can be altered
Sleep, Meditation, Biofeedback, Hypnosis, Drugs
400
How would the biological perspective explain the cause of dreams?
Random neurons fire in the brain and the brain weaves a story in order to make sense of this firing.
500
The main cause of dissociative disorders is ______________. This is because dissociation allows individuals to __________.
First blank: Traumatic Events
Second blank: avoid feelings of guilt shame or pain. They dissociate from stressful traumatic events by selectively forgetting them. This results in reduced anxiety.
500
Explain how the recent trend of mass shootings is a symptom of a failing mental health system
The people committing the mass shootings are people who should be receiving treatment for their schizophrenia. Because of the stigmatization of the disorder and lack of an adequate mental health system, these people do not receive the treatment they need and end up acting on their auditory hallucinations and paranoid delusions.
500
Explain why consciousness is a psychological construct
Consciousness cannot be seen, touched, or measured directly. However, they are known by their effects on their behavior and they play roles in psychological theories
There are different meanings for consciousness
500
What is the purpose of sleep? List at least four purposes.
Revive the tired body, build up resistance to infection, recover from stress, preserve memories, regulate emotions, regulate hormone levels, sustain attention spans