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75 Cards in this Set
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Counciouness |
Our awareness of ourselves and our environment |
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Cognitive neuroscience |
Study of brain activity linked with mental process |
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Dual track consciousness |
Conscious and unconscious |
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Unconscious |
Parallel processing, multitasking, altered states |
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States of consciousness |
Sleeping Dreaming Resting Hallucinating Meditating Day-dreaming |
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Circadian Rythm |
Biological rhythm Internal clock that regulates states of consciousness |
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Inn-attentional Blindness |
Blind to all but a tiny sliver of visual stimulus |
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Change blindness |
Blind to change |
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Selective attention |
Paying attention to only one thing at a time |
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Pineal gland |
Regulates melatonin Controlled by SCN Controlled by sunlight |
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Marvin Minsky |
"The mind is what the brain does" |
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Alpha waves |
Slow brain waves of a relaxed awake state |
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Hallucinations |
False sensory experiences Commonly experienced during NREM 1 |
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Delta waves |
Large slow brain waves associated with deep sleep |
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Name the stages of sleep in order that they occur |
Awake NREM 1 NREM 2 NREM 3 / NREM 4 NREM 2 REM |
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Sleep spindles |
Bursts of rapid with rythmatic brain activity occurring during NREM 2 |
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How long does the sleep cycle last |
About 90 minutes |
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Suprachiasmatic Nucleus (SCN) |
Decreases production of melatonin |
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Name the five things sleep help us do |
1. Sleep protects 2. sleep helps us recuperate 3. sleep helps restore and rebuild fading memories 4. sleep feeds creative thinking 5. sleep supports growth |
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Impacts of lack of sleep |
Can cause weight gain Increases ghrelin hungry hormone Decreases leptin not hungry hormone Increases cortisol stress hormone |
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Stanley Coren |
Sleep manipulation |
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John B Watson |
Behaviorist |
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Major sleep disorders |
Insomnia Narcolepsy sleep apnea Night terrors |
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Insomnia |
Persistent problems either falling or staying asleep |
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Narcolepsy |
Causes sudden attacks of overwhelming sleepiness |
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Sleep apnea |
Stop breathing during sleep until forced to inhale |
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Night terrors |
Occurs mostly in children Causes double heart and breathing rates Terrifies subjects |
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Dream |
Sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through sleep |
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Sigmund Freud |
Interpreted dreams |
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Manifest content |
The remembered storyline of a dream |
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Latent content |
The underlying meaning of a dream |
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Why do we dream |
To develop and preserve neural pathways To make sense of neural static To reflect cognitive developments |
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Cocktail party effect |
Your ability to attend the only one voice among many |
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REM rebound |
Tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation |
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Psychoactive drugs |
A chemical substance that alters perceptions and moods |
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innattentional blindness |
Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere |
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Dual processing |
The principle that information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks |
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Blindsight |
Condition where person can respond to visual stimulus without experiencing it |
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What percent of what we do is unconscious |
80 to 90% |
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Parallel processing |
The processing of many aspects of a problem simultaneously |
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Sleep |
Periodic natural loss of consciousness |
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REM Sleep |
Rapid eye movement sleep I sleep stage where vivid dreams occur A.k.a. paradoxical sleep |
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Substance use disorder |
Continued substance craving and use despite significant life disruption or physical risk |
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Tolerance |
Building up immunity to drugs requiring to take larger dose |
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Addiction |
Compulsive craving of drugs |
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Addiction |
Compulsive craving of drugs |
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Withdrawal |
Discomfort and distress that follows quitting addictive drug her behavior |
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Three major categories of psychoactive drugs |
Depressants Stimulants Hallucinogens |
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Three major categories of psychoactive drugs |
Depressants Stimulants Hallucinogens |
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Depressants |
Drugs such as alcohol, barbiturates, and opiates that reduce neural activity and slow body functions |
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Three major categories of psychoactive drugs |
Depressants Stimulants Hallucinogens |
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Depressants |
Drugs such as alcohol, barbiturates, and opiates that reduce neural activity and slow body functions |
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Barbiturates |
Tranquilizers that depress the nervous system |
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Three major categories of psychoactive drugs |
Depressants Stimulants Hallucinogens |
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Depressants |
Drugs such as alcohol, barbiturates, and opiates that reduce neural activity and slow body functions |
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Barbiturates |
Tranquilizers that depress the nervous system |
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Opiates |
Depressed neural functioning |
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Stimulants |
Excite neural activity and speeds up bodily functions |
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Stimulants |
Excite neural activity and speeds up bodily functions |
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Examples of stimulants |
Caffeine Nicotine Amphetamines Cocaine Ecstasy Methamfetamines |
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Nicotine |
A stimulating and highly addictive psychoactive drug in tobacco |
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Nicotine |
A stimulating and highly addictive psychoactive drug in tobacco |
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Cocaine |
Powerful and addictive stimulant produces temporary increase in alertness and euphoria |
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Nicotine |
A stimulating and highly addictive psychoactive drug in tobacco |
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Cocaine |
Powerful and addictive stimulant produces temporary increase in alertness and euphoria |
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Methamfetamines |
Stimulates the central nervous system accelerated body functions Associated energy and mood changes |
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Nicotine |
A stimulating and highly addictive psychoactive drug in tobacco |
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Cocaine |
Powerful and addictive stimulant produces temporary increase in alertness and euphoria |
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Methamfetamines |
Stimulates the central nervous system accelerated body functions Associated energy and mood changes |
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Ecstasy |
Produces euphoria Social intimacy |
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Nicotine |
A stimulating and highly addictive psychoactive drug in tobacco |
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Cocaine |
Powerful and addictive stimulant produces temporary increase in alertness and euphoria |
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Methamfetamines |
Stimulates the central nervous system accelerated body functions Associated energy and mood changes |
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Ecstasy |
Produces euphoria Social intimacy |
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Hallucinogens |
Disorders perception and invokes sensory images |
