Consciousness
What are the 3 categories of drugs that affect consciousness
Depressants, Stimulants, Hallucinogens
A person chooses one thing or stream of information to pay attention to.
What is selective attention?
matching attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors to group norms
What is conformity?
Dreamers are aware they are dreaming and can sometimes influence/change their dreams
What is lucid dreaming?
The case surrounding Kenneth Parks, a man who murdered his mother in law while asleep, was controversial but had this result.
What is acquit?
Intentionality, Unity, Selectivity, Transience
What are the 4 properties of consciousness?
When a person experiences too much stimulation to their senses, to the point of discomfort.
What is sensory overload?
A factor which has a stronger and stronger influence on mob mentality as it increases
What is crowd size?
This is the length of an average human sleep cycle
90 minutes
The Dress was widely popular due to the controversy over what color it was. What was the cause of the Dress phenomenon?
What is an optical illusion?
Mirror Test
a common test for a measure of self awareness
A type of sensory stimulation that is below your threshold of consciousness, so you don’t perceive it but it can still affect your behavior.
What is a subliminal stimuli
Explain how loss of responsibility may lead to bullying
Members of a group may be more willing to engage in bullying since they each don’t feel individual responsibility
This is a term used to refer to the brain processing information gathered during the day through sleep
What is offline memory reprocessing?
The Solomon Asch Experiment consisted of participants viewing three lines and answering with which one was the longest. What did the participants of the Solomon Asch Experiment have a tendency for?
What is mob mentality/conformity?
What are xanax, valium, alcohol, and narcotics categorized as?
Tranquilizers
The minimum amount of stimulation required to detect a stimulus
What is an absolute threshold?
The definition of compliance
What is a change in public behavior, but not private beliefs
A type of nap taken in advance to a period of sustained wakefulness
What is a prophylactic nap?
In Gordon Gallup Jr.’s Mirror Test, animals were placed in front of mirrors for people to observe whether or not they had a sense of self through these gestures.
What is a self-directed behavior?
Stroop Test
What test was used to demonstrate that congruent stimuli are more quickly registered than incongruent stimuli?
The type of processing where you process details in parts to put together a bigger picture.
What is bottom up processing?
Give an example of Identification.
Answers may vary. Ex: vegetarian when out with other vegetarian friends (and genuinely believe in vegetarianism then but when they’re gone, the person can’t help themselves and end up eating meat.
compliance: changes public behavior AND private beliefs BUT only in presence of group
This sleep disorder may be caused by a lack of hypocretin
What is narcolepsy?
In a video on a sleep disorder, dogs were shown to be experiencing narcolepsy. What is a symptom of narcolepsy in the dogs that the narrator mentioned?
What is the loss of muscle control?