Consciousness

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Consciousness

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One's subjective experience of the world, resulting from brain activity

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Automatic processing

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Tasks that are so well learned that they require little attention

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Controlled processing

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Difficult or unfamiliar tasks that require much attention, slower

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inattentional blindess

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A failure to notice something obvious in ones environment

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change blindness

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If you let you notice large changes in one's environment

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Adaptive behavior: sleep

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Research suggests sleep is a doctor for three functions.

1. restoration

2. following of circadian rhythms

3. facilitation of learning

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restorative theory

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Sleep allows the body to rest and repair itself

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keeping busy

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Three activities in which we can" lose ourselves" at enter an altered state

1. exercise

2. religion

3. flow- total engagement and asked for its own sake- focused on reward or escaping once problems

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psycho active drugs

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Mind altering substances that change the brain neurochemistry.

1. stimulants are drugs that increase behavioral and mental activity and activate that sympathetic nervous system

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depressants

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Reduced behavioral and mental activity by depressing the central nervous system

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opiates

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Sometimes called narcotics, our pain relievers

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Hallucinogens

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Sometimes called psychedelics, produce alterations in cognition, mood, and perception

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Ecstasy (MDMA)

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Lowers dopamine; more serotonin activity