Facts I
Involves the existence of two or more personalities within a single individual
Multiple Personality Disorder
Activity requiring low level awareness, often occuring during automatic processes; involves fantasizing or dreaming while awake
Daydreaming
What condition did John Nash suffer from?
Schyzophrenia
Result of using anything from hypnosis to meditation, psychoactive drugs, or sleep deprivation; produces awareness which differs from normal consciousness
Altered States
Altered state of consciousness, involving 5 stages. Deepest state borders on unconsciousness
Sleep and Dreams
Average number of REM cycles per night
Four
Your body is paralyzed during this phase of sleep
REM
REM stand for
Rapid Eye Movement
Somnambulism
Sleep Walking
total lack of sensory awareness & complete loss of responsiveness to environment; result of disease, trauma, blow to head, or general medical anesthesia
Unconsciousness
Referred to as delta sleep (delta waves occur); deep sleep lasts 30 minutes. Bed-wetting & sleepwalking can occur
Stage 4 Sleep
Begins sleep cycle, and is relatively light. Transitions between wakefulness & sleep
Stage 1 Sleep
Unconscious/Implicit Memory: memories stored in the “unconscious” which we don’t want to recall (eg. abuse) ~ Psychoanalytic Theory
Sigmund Freud
These two techniques help to relax a person
Meditation and Hypnosis
Stage sleepwalking occurs
Stage 3
A sudden loss of memory, usually following a particularly stressful or traumatic event.
Dissociative Amnesia
A person’s unrealistic obsession w/the fear that they have a serious disease.
Hypochondria
NREM
Non-Rapid Eye Movement
Amnesia characterized by a loss of their personal identity, which can result in traveling to another location and the assumption of a new identity
Dissociative Fugue
A region of the brain within the hypothalamus that acts as the ‘master clock’ for the circadian rhythm
Suprachiasmatic Nucleus
Separation of certain personality components or mental processes from conscious thought
Dissociative Disorder
A preoccupation w/some imagined physical defect in a normal person when there is no physical explanation
Somatoform Disorders
A preoccupation w/an imagined physical defect in appearance, physique or self-image, despite no disfigurement or defect
Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)
Internal biological process that regulates sleep-wake cycles.
Circadian Rhythm
Sleep/Dreaming, Meditation/Hypnosis, Drug-Induced
Altered States of Consciousness