AP Psychology- Sleep: Consciousness

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consciousness

our subjective awareness of ourselves and our environment

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private awareness

our thoughts in our head

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public awareness

what you share to others and the outside world

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Wundt

linked with introspection

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introspection

how to truly understand yourself

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Tichner

linked with structuralism

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structuralism

stacking your experiences

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William James

linked with functionalism

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functionalism

how the mind functions to adapt to environment

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behaviorism

linked with reward, punishment, and learning; stimulus and response

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congnitive psychology

study of the structure + process of the brain and how they effect us

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dual processing

the principle that information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracksblind

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blindsight

a condition in which a person can respond to a visual stimulus without consciously experiencing it

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parallel processing

no real recollection of what happened; processing multiple aspects of a stimulus simultaneously, fast and more automated

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sequential pocessing

new information; processing one apsect of a stimulus or problem one at a time, slower but more conscious processing

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sleep

a periodic natural loss of consciousnes; a unique state of altered consciousness where you are not away of many stimuli but aren’t completely unaware either

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EEG scan

used to monitor brainwaves

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circadian rhythms

our biological clock, influences by the hypothalmus, SCN, and melatonin

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pineal

gland that secretes meltonin

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EMG scan

scan used for muscle activity

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EOG scan

scan used for eye movements

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90 minutes

duration of a typical sleep cycle

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4-5 cycles

numbers of cycles each night of sleep

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NREM1

nodding, falling in and out of sleep, feeling the weight of your head

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hypnagogic state

another name for NREM1

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NREM2

spindles start to form, quick spike in the brainwaves

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NREM3

deep sleep

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breathing, heart rate, and tempurature

these decrease during NREM1, NREM2 and NREM3

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REM sleep/paradoxical sleep

experiencing cataplexy

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cataplexy

term for paralysis

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beta waves

brainwaves that show when you are awake

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alpha waves

brainwaves when you are drowsy

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NREM 3

stage where delta waves start to appear

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stage 4

stage where delta waves increase

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stage 4

in this stage, you don’t deal with cataplexy

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protection, repair, remebering memories, problem solving, growth, and energy

reason why we sleep

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cortisol

chemical for stress

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insomnia

struggle to fall and stay alseep

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sleep apnea

repeated interruptions of breathing during sleep, repearts sleep cycle and kills braincells

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narcolepsy

sudden sets of sleep(REM sleep)

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sudden infant deah syndrome (SIDS)

disorder where sleeping babies stop breathing and die, can be environmental cause or physiological cause

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REM behavior disorder

acting out dreams because you don’t have cataplexy

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night terrors

abrupt awakenings from NREM sleep accompanied by intense phsyiological arousal and feelings of panic

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nightmares

anxiety-arousing dream occuring around the end of the sleep cycle during REM sleep

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sleep talking

occurs equally during NREM and REM sleep, either can be coherent sentences or single indistinct words

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sleep walking

occures during NREM sleep, moving around

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dream

sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts going through a person’s head while alseep

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psychodynamics/psychoanalytic view

dreaming for what we wish for, driven by sex and aggression

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manifest content

what you actually drempt

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latent content

hidden message in the dream

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the activation-synthesis hypothesis

dream happen because neurons are just firing

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information processing/fundamental processing

dreams help us process information

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problem-solving theory

dreams are given people a chance to review and address problems from the day