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consciousness
our subjective awareness of ourselves and our environment
private awareness
our thoughts in our head
public awareness
what you share to others and the outside world
Wundt
linked with introspection
introspection
how to truly understand yourself
Tichner
linked with structuralism
structuralism
stacking your experiences
William James
linked with functionalism
functionalism
how the mind functions to adapt to environment
behaviorism
linked with reward, punishment, and learning; stimulus and response
congnitive psychology
study of the structure + process of the brain and how they effect us
dual processing
the principle that information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracksblind
blindsight
a condition in which a person can respond to a visual stimulus without consciously experiencing it
parallel processing
no real recollection of what happened; processing multiple aspects of a stimulus simultaneously, fast and more automated
sequential pocessing
new information; processing one apsect of a stimulus or problem one at a time, slower but more conscious processing
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
EEG scan
used to monitor brainwaves
circadian rhythms
our biological clock, influences by the hypothalmus, SCN, and melatonin
pineal
gland that secretes meltonin
EMG scan
scan used for muscle activity
EOG scan
scan used for eye movements
90 minutes
duration of a typical sleep cycle
4-5 cycles
numbers of cycles each night of sleep
NREM1
nodding, falling in and out of sleep, feeling the weight of your head
hypnagogic state
another name for NREM1
NREM2
spindles start to form, quick spike in the brainwaves
NREM3
deep sleep
breathing, heart rate, and tempurature
these decrease during NREM1, NREM2 and NREM3
REM sleep/paradoxical sleep
experiencing cataplexy
cataplexy
term for paralysis
beta waves
brainwaves that show when you are awake
alpha waves
brainwaves when you are drowsy
NREM 3
stage where delta waves start to appear
stage 4
stage where delta waves increase
stage 4
in this stage, you don’t deal with cataplexy
protection, repair, remebering memories, problem solving, growth, and energy
reason why we sleep
cortisol
chemical for stress
insomnia
struggle to fall and stay alseep
sleep apnea
repeated interruptions of breathing during sleep, repearts sleep cycle and kills braincells
narcolepsy
sudden sets of sleep(REM sleep)
sudden infant deah syndrome (SIDS)
disorder where sleeping babies stop breathing and die, can be environmental cause or physiological cause
REM behavior disorder
acting out dreams because you don’t have cataplexy
night terrors
abrupt awakenings from NREM sleep accompanied by intense phsyiological arousal and feelings of panic
nightmares
anxiety-arousing dream occuring around the end of the sleep cycle during REM sleep
sleep talking
occurs equally during NREM and REM sleep, either can be coherent sentences or single indistinct words
sleep walking
occures during NREM sleep, moving around
dream
sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts going through a person’s head while alseep
psychodynamics/psychoanalytic view
dreaming for what we wish for, driven by sex and aggression
manifest content
what you actually drempt
latent content
hidden message in the dream
the activation-synthesis hypothesis
dream happen because neurons are just firing
information processing/fundamental processing
dreams help us process information
problem-solving theory
dreams are given people a chance to review and address problems from the day