Levels of Consciousness
What is the conscious level?
Information about yourself or your environment that you are aware of.
What is the circadian rhythm?
Our pattern of our metabolic and thought processes during the day.
What are dreams?
What are psychoactive drugs?
Substances that change the chemistry in our body and alter our states of consciousness.
What are split brain patients?
Epileptic patents who had their corpus callosum cut to divide the brain hemispheres and stop seizures.
What is priming?
When we respond more quickly to stimuli we've seen before in our environment even if we don't remember seeing them.
What sleep waves are produced in stage 4 sleep?
Delta waves.
What was Freud's theory about dreaming?
Believing that dreams are an important tool to understand or process your unconscious wishes and desires.
What is the difference between agonist and antagonist drugs?
Agonists mimic neurotransmitters and antagonists block neurotransmitters.
What is the Hawthorne effect?
Individuals acting differently because of the knowledge of being observed, regardless of any changes made to environment.
What is mere-exposure effect?
When your brain chooses a familiar stimulus over a stimulus that is new even if we don't remember the old stimulus.
True or false: Sleep is part of and unconscious level.
False. Sleep is a state of consciousness, you are just less aware of yourself or environment than in your regular state of consciousness.
True or False: The activation synthesis theory looks at dreams as paranormal or spiritual brain experiences.
False. Activation synthesis theory looks at dreams as a biological phenomenon.
What is tolerance?
A change in your body that requires a higher need of the drug to achieve the same effect.
What is the nonconscious level?
Involuntary body processes such as digestion, breathing, and heart-beat.
Name 5 known sleep disorders.
What is the difference between manifest content and latent content?
Manifest content is the actual images we see while we dream and latent content is the meanings behind the manifest content.
True or False: Marijuana is a depressant drug.
True. Marijuana is a depressant but also a hallucinogen, a stimulant, and an opiate.
What is the difference between subconscious and nonconscious?
Unconscious are events or feelings repressed in our unconscious mind that we cannot process.
What happens during REM and what's it's purpose?
Heart rate elevates, no body movement, eye muscles move rapidly, brain waves as active as when you are awake.
Process information gathered during the day.
What is protected sleep?
Sigmund Freud's theory that when you slept, your ego protected you by representing your unconscious wishes through symbols and images in your dreams.
What are the four most addicted drugs among teens?
Alcohol, marijuana, nicotine, and adderall.