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consciousness |
a person's subjective experience of the world |
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phenomenology |
how things appears to a conscious person |
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problem of the other mind |
we can't tell what other people have in mind |
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mind-body problem |
issue on how the mind is related to the brain and the body |
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what are the 4 consciousness properties? |
intentionally: being directed toward an object unity: gather info from 5 sense, make it into 1. Also to prevent from being distracted selectivity: the capacity to include some objects but not others transience: tendency to change, the idea of consciousness is a stream, not individual sections |
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Dichotic listening |
when 2 different message go into your left/right ears at the same time |
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Cocktail-party phenomenon |
you can catch someone saying your name even in a party easily |
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minimal consciousness |
when you are sleeping (doesn't have to be), you could respond to a poke, but won't remember it afterward |
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full consciousness |
you know and you are able to report your mental state |
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self consciousness |
your attention is drawn to yourself, ex: you realise it's you when you see a mirror |
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experience-sampling technique |
people asked to record their current thoughts at particular time |
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mental control |
the attempt to change conscious state of mind |
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thought suppression |
the conscious avoidance of a thought |
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rebound effect of thought |
when that thought come back more frequently after suppression |
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the ironic monitor/ ironic processes of mental control |
a part of the brain is use to look for the word/thing you are trying not to think of |
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Sigmund Freud |
A person: Had the theory on consciousness is only the surface of a much complex mind, made up of unconscious processes |
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Dynamic unconsciousness |
an active system hiding your deepest instincts and disires |
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Repression |
a process of removing all unacceptable thoughts from conscious to unconscious |
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cognitive unconscious |
unexperienced mental processes that give rise to thoughts and behavior |
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Subliminal perception |
when thoughts or behaviors are influenced by stimuli that you are not award of |
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Altered state of consciousness |
a form of experience that is different from the normal subjective view of the world, so pretty much dreaming |
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Hypnagogic state |
presleep consciousness |
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Hypnic jerk |
a sensation of dropping |
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the Circadian rhythm |
naturally occuring 24hr cycle |
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what are the 5 stages of waves during sleeping? |
Beta - Awake Alpha - relaxed Theta - stage 1 sleep Sleep spindles + K complex - Stage 2 sleep Delta - Stage 3/4 sleep REM sleep
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REM Sleep |
Rapid eye movement and has the same level of brain activities as when you are conscious
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Eletrooculograph (EOG) |
device that measure eye movements |
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Insomia |
difficult to fall asleep |
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Night terror |
sudden awaken with panic + intense emotional arousal |
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Narcolepsy |
sudden fall asleep during doing stuff |
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Sleep paralyzed |
... you are paralyzed while you sleep |
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5 major characteristic of dream consciousness |
1) we intensely feel emotions 2) dream thoughts are illogical 3) you can feel, see, hear, every sense but pain 4) everything seems to make sense in dreams and you will just accept it make sense 5) we can remember dreams afterward |
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manifest content |
hidden meaning behind the dream |
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latent content |
the true underlying content |
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Activation - synthesis model |
dreams are produced when the brain try to mke sense of random neural activities that occur during sleep |
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Psychoactive drugs |
chemicals that influence consciousness or behavior by altering the brain's chemical message system |
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Drug tolerance |
larger does of drugs are required overtime |
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Depressant |
reduce the activity of Central Nervous System |
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Expectancy Theory |
Alcohol's effect can be different depending on the environment (ex: drink alcohol at wedding, probably won't want to fight; drink alcohol during a bar fight, probably will want to fight) |
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Balanced placebo design |
Ex: people were given water, but told it's alcohol. they will still recieve the same effect as drinking alcohol |
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Alcohol myopia |
People who drink alcohol do things the simplest way
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Stimulant |
excites the activity of Central Nervous System |
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Narcotics (opiates) |
a highly additive drugs derived from opium that relieve pain |
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Hallucinogens |
drugs that alter sensation and perception |
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Marijuana |
a gateway drug |
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Gateway drug |
drugs that get you addicted and want more drug |
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Harm reduction approach |
a respond to high risk behavior that focuses on reducing the harm such behavior have on people's lives |
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hypnosis |
when one person makes suggestions that lead to a change in another person's subjective experiences of the world |
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posthypnotic amnesia |
failure to remember after being hypnotise |
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Hypnotic Analgesia |
reduction in pain using hypnotic |
