Consciousness
Name a naturally occurring altered state of consciousness
Sleep or daydreaming
A typical sleep cycle lasts
90 mins
Name the 3 sections on the mental health continuum
Mentally Healthy - Mental Health Problem - Mental Health Disorder
How is a phobia different to stress?
Keeping the results of an experiment private upholds what ethical principle?
Confidentiality
According to the BPS model, substance abuse is a _______ factor
biological
Type of treatment where a patient is slowly exposed to the phobic stimulus?
Systematic desensitisation
The results of an experiment are the ______ variable.
dependent
Brainwaves visible on an EEG when we are awake and alert
Beta waves
Having a BAC of 0.05 is the same as _____ hours without sleep
17
A mentally health person has high levels of:
resilience / social wellbeing / functioning.
What neurotransmitter may be low in someone with a phobia?
GABA
Comparing sets of twins would be what type of experimental design?
Matched participants
What type drug is alcohol?
Depressant
Restoration theory says we have NREM sleep to repair our ____
body
What does it mean to "ruminate"?
Overthink / dwell on an issue
According to BPS model, psychoeducation for phobia intervention is what type of factor?
social
Why can't experiments that use convenience sampling be generalised?
The results do not reflect the wider population accurately
Sam is meditating and can't feel pain, This is due to what type of psychological change from reduced awareness?
Perceptual distortion
What would the EMG of a patient in REM sleep would show and why?
No activity due to muscle atonia.
Factors that inhibit a patients recovery, such as stigma, are called: ____
perpetuating
A person with a phobia thinking all spiders try to jump on him is showing what type of psychological thinking?
Cognitive bias
What are the 3 Measures of Central Tendency we can use in descriptive statistics?
Mean, Median, Mode