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What is the defintion for Consciousness?
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Our awareness of ourselves and our environment.
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What did William James say about consciousness?
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It is more important to study the functions of consciousness, not its elements.
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What is Selective Attention?
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One focuses on a particular aspect as in the Cocktail Party Effect.
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What is the Cocktail Party Effect?
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One focuses on one thing and ignores everything else.
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What is the definition of Subconscious?
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Something that is not always in your mind but you can recall it.
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What is parallel fashion?
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Several things can occur in your mind simultaneously but you are unaware of everything.
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What is Day Dreaming?
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When you are physically somewhere but you are mentally absent.
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What is Circadian Ryhthm?
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the human biological clock; regular bodily ryhthms; 24-hour cycle
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What does REM stand for?
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Rapid eye movement
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What is REM sleep?
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a recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur.
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Describe the first stage of sleep
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brief; may experience fantastic images resembling hallucinations.
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Describe the second stage of sleep
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sleep spindles- bursts of rapid ryhthmic brain wave activity
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Describe the third stage of sleep
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much deeper sleep, muscles become more relaxed. breathing is steady and even at this point, it is hard to wake you up.
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Describe the fourth stage of sleep
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stage where you are dreaming, deepest stage of sleep. your blood pressure, heart rate, and brain speed up.
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What are delta waves?
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the large slow brain waves associated with deep sleep.
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What happens in REM sleep?
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about an hour after first falling asleep, you return to stage 3 and stage 2, entering REM sleep and dreaming stage
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What occurs when you are in REM sleep?
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Brain waves become rapid and irregular
Heart rate rises Breathing becomes rapid and irregular Eyes dart around behind closed lids Muscles are semi-paralyzed preventing you to act out your dreams |
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What is REM sleep also called and why?
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Paradoxical sleep; Paralyzed
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What percent of your night is spent in REM sleep?
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about 20-25%
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What is Insomnia?
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problems in falling and staying asleep.
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What is Sleep Apnea?
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temporary cessations of breathing during sleep and momentary reawakening. Most common in overweight men.
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What is and indication of Sleep Apnea?
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Snoring and next day sleepiness
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What is Narcolepsy?
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periodic, overwhelming sleepiness lasts less than five minutes, 1 in 200 people suffer from it, it is genetic, seen both in humans and dogs.
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What are Night Terrors?
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mostly seen in children, often occurs during the first hours of stage 4, often present with sleep walking and sleep talking, different from nightmares.
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What are the two contents of Dreams?
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Manifest Content and Latent Content
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What is Manifest Content?
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according to Freud, the remembered story line of a dream.
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What is Latent Content?
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according to Freud, the underlying meaning of a dream (as distinct from its manifest content) Freud believed that a dreams latent content functions as a safety valve.
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What is Hypnosis?
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a social interaciton in which one person (the hypnotist) suggests to another (the subject/person)that certain perceptions, feelings, and behavior will spontaneously occur.
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What is Posthypnotic Suggestion?
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a suggestion made during a hypnosis session, to be carried out after the person is no longer hypnotized.
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What is Posthypnotice Amnesia?
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supposed inability to recall what one experienced during hypnosis.
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What was the experiment Dr. Hilgard conducted?
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He took a hypnotized person and stuck their hand in ice water. The person had no reaction to the pain but was asked to push a key if some part of her was in pain.
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