An indivual's awareness of external events and internal sensations
What is consciouness?
100
Theory of mind mechanism
What is TOMM
100
Controlled processing, in which indiviuals actively focuson efforts on attaining a goal
What is the description of higher-level consciouness?
100
Pain relief
What is medical use for Alcohol?
100
Light sleep lasting up to 10 minutes, includes theta waves.
What is Stage 1's pattern characteristics?
200
a reservoir of unacceptable wishes, feelings, and thoughts that are beyond conscious awareness
What is unconscious thought?
200
Suprachiasmatic nucleus
What is SCN?
200
Automatic process that requires little attention
What is the description of lower-level concsciouness?
200
Sleeping pill
What is the medical use for barbiturates?
200
Deeper sleep characterized by occasional "sleep spindles"
What is stage 2's pattern characteristics?
300
The dream's surfave content which contains dream symbols that disguise the dream's true meaning
What is manifest content?
300
Electroencephalograph
What is an EEG?
300
Can be produced by drugs, trauma, fatigue, possibly hypnosis, and sensory deprivation
What is the description of altered states of consciouness?
300
Anxiety reduction
What is the medical use for tranquilizers?
300
Progressively more muscle relaxation and emergence of delta waves
What is pattern characteristic of the 3rd stage?
400
The dream's hidden content
What is Latent Content?
400
Rapid eye movement
What is REM?
400
Can occur when people are awake, as well as when they are sleeping and dreaming
What is the description of subconsciouness awareness?
400
Pain relief
What is the medical use for opiates?
400
Deep sleep when sleeper is difficult to rouse.
What is stage 4's pattern characteristic?
500
An altered state of consciousness or a psychological state of altered attention and expectation in which the indiviual is unusually receptive to suggestions.
What is hypnosis?
500
Ventral tegmental area
What is VTA?
500
Freud's belief that some unconscious thoughs are too laden with anxiety and other negative emotions for concsiousness to admit them
What is the description of no awareness?
500
weight control
What is the medical use for amphetamines?
500
The individual shows EEG patterns similar to those of relaxed wakefulness. Most dreaming occurs in this stage.