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consciousness
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awareness of ourselves and our environment
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states of consciousness
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consciousness comes to us in altered states, including, daydreaming, sleeping,meditating, and drug- induced hallucinating
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selective attention
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the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus
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inattentional blindness
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failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere
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change blindness
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the failure to see a change in a situation because your attention is so focused on another task
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choice blindness
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the failure to notice the difference between the choices you made... or something like that
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pop- out
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to attend a stimuli unwillingly
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circadin rhythm
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the biological clock; regular bodily rhythms that occur on a 24 hour cycle
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hallucinations
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sensory experiences that occur without sensory stimulus
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REM sleep
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rapid eye movemement sleep
a recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur. Also known as paradoxical sleep, because the muscles are relaxed (except for minor twitches) but other body systems are active. |