STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
This is your awareness of everything going on around you at a given moment.
What is consciousness?
The body’s natural sleep-wake cycle.
What is the circadian rhythm?
Inability to fall or stay asleep.
What is insomnia?
A state where a person is highly open to suggestion.
What is hypnosis?
Drugs that increase nervous system activity.
What are stimulants?
A state where thoughts are clear, organized, and you feel alert.
What is waking consciousness?
Brain structure that controls circadian rhythms.
What is the hypothalamus?
Disorder where breathing repeatedly stops during sleep.
What is sleep apnea?
Mental practice that refocuses attention and promotes relaxation.
What is meditation?
Drugs that slow down the nervous system.
What are depressants?
A shift in mental activity compared to normal awareness (ex: hypnosis, drugs).
What is an altered state of consciousness?
Stage of sleep where vivid dreams occur.
What is REM sleep?
Sudden sleep attacks during the day.
What is narcolepsy?
Theory that hypnosis is just people acting out expected behavior.
What is social-cognitive theory?
Drugs that distort perception and cause hallucinations.
What are hallucinogens?
Processing that requires attention and awareness.
What is explicit processing?
Theory stating sleep helps repair the body.
What is the restorative theory?
Occurs in deep sleep (N3) and involves walking with no memory.
What is sleepwalking (somnambulism)?
A state where you lose track of time while fully engaged in an activity.
What is flow state?
Brain chemical released in the reward pathway during drug use
What is dopamine?
Driving a familiar route without remembering the trip uses this type of processing.
What is implicit processing?
Theory suggesting dreams come from random brain activity in the brainstem.
What is the activation-synthesis hypothesis?
Difference: occurs in REM and involves vivid fear vs occurs in N3 with panic and no recall.
What are nightmares vs night terrors?
Theory that part of the mind remains aware during hypnosis.
What is dissociation theory?
Needing larger doses over time to achieve the same effect.
What is tolerance?