Psych Ch. 7 (Consciousness and Sleep)

Adaptation theory

Sleep helps animals making a living (Meat eating lions)

Analytic introspection

Break down stimulus to parts

Cataplexy

Muscle weakness when person awakes

Change blindness example

Ask bystander for questions → door passes by → person asking question changes → bystander doesn’t notice

Circadian Rhythm

Body’s 24 hr internal clock

Consciousness

Awareness of whatever’s happening in mind

Dopamine

Pleasure hormone

Dualism

Physical/Mental

Electroencephalogram (EEG)

Brain

Electromyogram (EMG)

Muscle tone

Electrooculogram (EOG)

Eye movement

Emergrent Property

Entire mind over neurons

Emergent Stage 1 Sleep (Paradoxical/REM)

Combine light (EEG)/deep sleep (EMG)

Empiricism

Experience = Human knowledge basis

Evil Genius

Tricking Descartes w/sensory illusions

GABA

Gamma Aminobutyric Acid (Dopamine’s mirror image; discourages neurons sending action potential)

Hallucinogens

Generate hallucinations/binds serotonin receptors

Hypersomnia

Sleep too much

Hypnotic Analgesia

Hypnosis for pain relief

Idealism

Mental

Insomnia

Can’t sleep

Latent Content

Id acts out actual fantasy in dreams

Manifest Content

Id disguises people/things of fantasy

Materialism

ONLY physical

Mental Rotation

Rotated objects/find if same or diff (blocks)

Mesmerism

Hypnosis’ former version

Mind-body problem

Mental can’t influence physical (2 distinct/separate things)

Monism

One thing

Narcolepsy

Hypersomnia disorder (Fall asleep during day)

Narcotic

Opium poppy plant drug

Occam’s razor

Simplest answer = correct

Paradoxical sleep

Emergent stage one (ex: dolphins)

Psychoactive drugs

Change how brain works

Qualia

Subjective experience

Rationalism

Logic

REM

Rapid Eye Movement

Restorative theory

Wear and Tear healing (Sleep after exercise)

Sleep paralysis

End of REM; awake but paralyzed

Suprachiasmatic Nucleus (SCN)

Cell bundle in hypothalamus

Tabula Rasa

Blank slate

What kind of attention do we have

Selective!

Hard problem of consciousness

Does neuron activity explain ALL of human experience

Easy problem of consciousness

Mental states verbally reported/focus attention

Change blindness (Def)

External objects switched

Choice blindness

secretly switched option/justify said option

circadian rhythm example

Jetlag: Resynchronize clock to new time

Jetlag recovery is quicker for

Westward Travel! Lengthens day (NYC to San Francisco)

Optic Chiasm

Optic nerves crossing over

At what sleep stage do penile erections/REM occur?

Emergent stage 1

What does emergent stage 1 sleep emphasize?

Sleep ascends into stage 1 from deeper sleep

Obstructive sleep apnea

Insomnia where neck muscle weakens → can’t breathe → wake up

Animal Magnetism

Animals/inanimate objects exchange energy

Hypnosis

From Franz Mesmer