Consciousness
The awareness of ourselves and our environment
What is consciousness?
Being unable to sleep/stay asleep
What is insomnia?
A social interaction where one person suggests to another that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur
What is hypnosis?
chemical substances that alter perceptions and mood, and thus affect consciousness
What are Psychoactive Drugs?
A sudden arousal from sleep with intense fear accompanied by a physiological reaction
What are night terrors?
believe that consciousness comes from your brain’s interpretation of numerous and simultaneous brain events
Who are neuroscientists?
Scientific name for sleepwalking
What is somnambulism?
Suggestion carried out after the subject is no longer hypnotized
What is Posthypnotic Suggestion?
Undesirable effects after stopping a drug that one is addicted to
What is withdrawal?
Dreams help with memories
What is information processing?
Processes several things at one time, like heart beat and breathing
What is the unconscious mind?
Strong mental engagement, the brain exhibits low amplitude and fast, irregular beta waves (15-30 cps)
What is Awake and Alert?
Hypnosis is a separate state of consciousness
What is Divided Consciousness Theory?
The major active ingredient in marijuana that triggers a variety of effects, including mild hallucinations
What is THC?
Our dreams are just random brain firing that we tie together into a cohesive story
What is Activation-Synthesis Theory?
Periodic Physiological Fluctuations are known as
What are biological clocks?
Our dreams are just random brain firing that we tie together into a cohesive story
What is Activation-Synthesis Theory?
Hypnotic subjects may simply be imaginative actors playing a social role
What is Social Influence Theory?
drugs that depress the activity of the central nervous system, reducing anxiety but impairing memory and judgment, sleeping pills
What are Barbiturates?
Freud’s Theory, what the dream means; dreams show unconscious desires
What is Wish Fulfillment?
believe in near death experiences, because they believe the mind and body are separate
What is dualism?
When someone is deprived of REM sleep their future sleep will contain more REM than normal
What are REM Rebounds?
inability to recall what one experienced during hypnosis
What is Posthypnotic Amnesia?
what two stimulants increase heart and breathing rates and other autonomic functions to provide energy
What are caffeine and nicotine?
We dream to improve thinking
What is Cognitive Development?