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65 Cards in this Set
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Rene’s Descarte (Renay Daycart) |
Dualist; doubted everything so he could learn what he could know for sure. He knows he exists “I think therefore I am” |
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Software (psychology) |
the description of how something works; mind |
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hardware (psychology) |
where something works; brain |
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The mind is brain activity |
The mind is what the brain does |
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Consciousness |
everything out mind does subjective; only you have access to your conscious |
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phenomenology |
if something feels real; it is real. If you believe it, it’s true to you |
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relativism |
relative to belief, two people having contradicting opinions but both are true |
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minimal consciousness |
when you’re entered into a world of thoughtlessness (zoned out) helps save mental resources |
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full consciousness |
purpose/reason to your thoughts |
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self-consciousness/centeredness |
develops around 18 months consists of embarrassment, paranoia, meditation, pondering, nervous. can help people be ethical |
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selective attention |
only paying attention to what they are focused on |
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innitention |
not paying attention to something |
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divided attention |
trying to pay attention to a few things/people at once |
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cocktail party phenomenon |
despite being able to tune out most things; somethings can’t be tuned out (someone calling your name, “fire!”) |
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dichotic listening |
what you pay attention to comes at a cost of what you don’t pay attention to |
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daydreaming |
conserves thoughts, let’s your brain pause |
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mental control |
purposely trying to change your thoughts |
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thought suppression |
avoiding thoughts on purpose |
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rebound effect |
trying not to think about something, causing you to think about it more also doing something so much it goes the opposite way (liking someone so much you push them away) |
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Stage 3 sleep |
Delta waves = low brain activity, knocked out cold (sleep walking) 20-25% of sleep |
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Rem Sleep |
sawtooth waves (looks like beta brain waves, as active as if u were awake) dreaming, rapid eye movement, 20-25% |
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Rem Rebound |
skipping all other sleep steps, going straight into rem sleep |
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muscle inhibition |
body releasing neurons that paralyze you while you sleep |
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commission |
Actively doing something wrong |
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Ommission |
fail to do the right thing |
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what’s one of the most sacred things in life? |
sleep |
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restorative theory |
sleeping to recharge mentally and physically, rebuilding mental resources |
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evolutionary theory (sleeping) |
humans who slept at night lived longer; passed down from generation to generation eyes don’t work well at night |
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wakefullness |
beta waves = high brain activity |
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relaxation |
alpha waves = low brain activity |
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Stage 1 Sleep |
theta waves = lower then alpha, easy to wake up, 5% of sleep |
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Stage 2 sleep |
sleep spindles/ k complex= short bursts of brain activity 50% of sleep |
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Rem Sleep |
sawtooth waves (looks like beta brain waves, as active as if u were awake) dreaming, rapid eye movement, 20-25% increases pulse, heart take, and sexual arousal memory is processed while asleep |
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Circadian Rythm |
internal clock synchronizes sleep with sun & moon helps us sleep & stay awake |
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Night Terrors |
nothing to do with dreams, not nightmares, no knowable source of anxiety/fear. Almost only in children |
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activation-synthesis model |
helps us explain why some dreams are random neurons that aren’t used will die; so they fire up while dreaming to be used which results in weird dreams |
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Melatonin |
hormone/pill that helps start the sleep cycle |
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S.A.D. |
seasonal affected disorder •Alaska •Washington •Oregon |
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Deep sleep and Rem sleep do what… |
deep sleep: strengths immune system rem sleep: strengthens memories |
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Randy Gardner |
did a sleep deprivation study-> stayed awake 264 hours -> slept 14. Scientists believed sleep is expendable; it is not. |
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Insomnia |
Cant fall asleep; cant stay asleep |
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Sleep Apnea |
when breathing during sleep stops, causing to wake up, or death. caused by overweight or genetics |
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Narcolepsy |
when someone falls asleep due to high arousal due to genetics |
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somnambulism |
sleep walking; delta waves (stage 3) common in children, usually grow out of it |
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sleep paralysis |
being paralyzed after you wake up; sometimes seeing your dream while awake |
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Circadian Rythm |
internal clock synchronizes sleep with sun & moon helps us sleep & stay awake |
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Night Terrors |
nothing to do with dreams, not nightmares, no knowable source of anxiety/fear. Almost only in children |
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activation-synthesis model |
helps us explain why some dreams are random neurons that aren’t used will die; so they fire up while dreaming to be used which results in weird dreams |
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consolidation of memories |
condensing memories when sleeping; dreaming about what happened in the day |
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Freud; Conciousness |
how you’re feeling, what you did, being awake & aware |
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Freud; subconscious |
not at the tip of your tongue, have to do a little digging to figure out |
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Freud; unconscious |
don’t know what’s there, deepest darkest feelings, what makes you uncomfortable and what you don’t want to remember |
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2 main fears in life |
Fear of Punishment Fear of Abandonment |
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Freud; dreams |
dreams have meaning because the unconscious wants to be let out but can’t be |
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Melatonin |
hormone/pill that helps start the sleep cycle |
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S.A.D. |
seasonal affected disorder •Alaska •Washington •Oregon |
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Deep sleep and Rem sleep do what… |
deep sleep: strengths immune system rem sleep: strengthens memories |
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Randy Gardner |
did a sleep deprivation study-> stayed awake 264 hours -> slept 14. Scientists believed sleep is expendable; it is not. |
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Insomnia |
Cant fall asleep; cant stay asleep |
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Sleep Apnea |
when breathing during sleep stops, causing to wake up, or death. caused by overweight or genetics |
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Narcolepsy |
when someone falls asleep due to high arousal due to genetics |
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somnambulism |
sleep walking; delta waves (stage 3) common in children, usually grow out of it |
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Freud; dreams |
dreams have meaning because the unconscious wants to be let out but can’t be •manifest: the stuff in your dream •latent content: emotions that cause the dream |
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psychological dependency |
wanting something for your brain |
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physiological dependency |
needing something for your body |
