Chapter 5: Psyc 1-01 Consciousness

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Consciousness

awareness of events around us and our internal world

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Introspection

observing one's own conscious expereince and describing

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Synesthesia

people experience infortmation from one sensory as if were coming through multiple senses, Varies amoungst individuals

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key awareness

arousal (wakefulness or alterness), awareness

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Sekective attention

prioritizing awareness of relavant information

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Inattentional blindness

Occurs prioritizing awareness of relavant information

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Inattentional blindness

occurs when people fail to see things outside their focus of attention

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Automaticity

The ability to perform complex activities with minimal conscious awareness

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Mind Wandering

help organize and structure plans

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unconscious mind

monitor, understand, and respond to experiences without awareness

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Conscious awareness

focuses on current awareness

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Preconscious

consciously accessible thoughts, feelings, and memories

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Dynamic Unconscious

inaccesible memories, instincts, and desires

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congnitive unconscious

perception, memory, and thinking without conscious awareness

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Thalamus

reticular activating system, controls alertness

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Frontal and Parietal lobes

involved in focused and slective attention

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default mode network

more active during mind wandering

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Hippocampus

active during thinking and mind wandering

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Global workspace hypothesis

suggest conscious awareness arises from synchronized brain activity

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circadian rhythm

synchronizes arousal levels to 24 hour cycle

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Suprachiasmatic nucleus

adjusts arousal patterns to fit the current schedule

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Stage 1

hallucinations, floating sensations, and falling

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Stage 2

rapid rhythmic brain

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Stage 3

deeper sleep and delta waves

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REM (rapid eye movement )

sleep occurs about an hour after faling asleep and is considered paradoxical

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Sleep

helps animals stay safe, conserve resources, learn, and remember

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Animals

adjust their sleep patterns based on survival risks

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Unihemispheric sleep

seen in dolphins, involves one hemisphere sleeping while the other remains awake

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insonmia

difficulty in falling asleep, awakening frequently during the night, or awakening early

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Sleep Apnea

Causes breathing interruptions leading to gasping for air

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REM Behavior

involves acting our dreams, more common in older adults

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Night Terrors

appear awake, terrified, with increase heart rates

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Narcolepsy

uncontrollable sleep attacks at unusal times

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What are Dreams?

Dreams are sequences of images, emotions, and thoughts during sleep

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What are in dreams?<

Dreams are often ongoing life events and may contain negative emotions

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REM Rebound

leads to increase REM sleep and deprivation

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Manifest Content

Uncensored, symbolic version of latent content representing unconscious drive and wishes

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Activation

Synthesis

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Psychoactive drugs

influence consciousness by altering brain chemical messages

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Drug Tolerance

leads to higher doses for the same effect

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drug addiction

Physical Dependence and Withdraw

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Depressants

Lower nervous system activity, potentially leading to withdrawal symptoms, decrease nervous system activity, such as alcohol

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Stimulants

increase neural activity, caffeine and cocaine

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Psychedelics

causes dramatic changes in consciousnees, disorting perception and triggering sensory expericnes LDS

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Hyposis

highly relaxes state of mind for therapeutic purposes

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