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Consciousness
awareness of events around us and our internal world
Introspection
observing one's own conscious expereince and describing
Synesthesia
people experience infortmation from one sensory as if were coming through multiple senses, Varies amoungst individuals
key awareness
arousal (wakefulness or alterness), awareness
Sekective attention
prioritizing awareness of relavant information
Inattentional blindness
Occurs prioritizing awareness of relavant information
Inattentional blindness
occurs when people fail to see things outside their focus of attention
Automaticity
The ability to perform complex activities with minimal conscious awareness
Mind Wandering
help organize and structure plans
unconscious mind
monitor, understand, and respond to experiences without awareness
Conscious awareness
focuses on current awareness
Preconscious
consciously accessible thoughts, feelings, and memories
Dynamic Unconscious
inaccesible memories, instincts, and desires
congnitive unconscious
perception, memory, and thinking without conscious awareness
Thalamus
reticular activating system, controls alertness
Frontal and Parietal lobes
involved in focused and slective attention
default mode network
more active during mind wandering
Hippocampus
active during thinking and mind wandering
Global workspace hypothesis
suggest conscious awareness arises from synchronized brain activity
circadian rhythm
synchronizes arousal levels to 24 hour cycle
Suprachiasmatic nucleus
adjusts arousal patterns to fit the current schedule
Stage 1
hallucinations, floating sensations, and falling
Stage 2
rapid rhythmic brain
Stage 3
deeper sleep and delta waves
REM (rapid eye movement )
sleep occurs about an hour after faling asleep and is considered paradoxical
Sleep
helps animals stay safe, conserve resources, learn, and remember
Animals
adjust their sleep patterns based on survival risks
Unihemispheric sleep
seen in dolphins, involves one hemisphere sleeping while the other remains awake
insonmia
difficulty in falling asleep, awakening frequently during the night, or awakening early
Sleep Apnea
Causes breathing interruptions leading to gasping for air
REM Behavior
involves acting our dreams, more common in older adults
Night Terrors
appear awake, terrified, with increase heart rates
Narcolepsy
uncontrollable sleep attacks at unusal times
What are Dreams?
Dreams are sequences of images, emotions, and thoughts during sleep
What are in dreams?<
Dreams are often ongoing life events and may contain negative emotions
REM Rebound
leads to increase REM sleep and deprivation
Manifest Content
Uncensored, symbolic version of latent content representing unconscious drive and wishes
Activation
Synthesis
Psychoactive drugs
influence consciousness by altering brain chemical messages
Drug Tolerance
leads to higher doses for the same effect
drug addiction
Physical Dependence and Withdraw
Depressants
Lower nervous system activity, potentially leading to withdrawal symptoms, decrease nervous system activity, such as alcohol
Stimulants
increase neural activity, caffeine and cocaine
Psychedelics
causes dramatic changes in consciousnees, disorting perception and triggering sensory expericnes LDS
Hyposis
highly relaxes state of mind for therapeutic purposes
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