Psych: Chapters 5-10 (Except For 8 -_-)

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awareness of oneself and the environment

Back 1

consciousness

Front 2

five regular fluctuations in biological systems

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biological rhythms

Front 3

synchronization of rhythms with external events

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entrainment

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occur in absence of external cues

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endogenous rhythms

Front 5

"Dreams are the royal road to unconsciousness"

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--Frued

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Endogenous Rhythms

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Circadian, Infradian, Ultradian

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Endogenous rhythm that occurs about once every 24 hours (sleep cycle)

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Circadian

Front 8

Endogenous rhythm that occurs less than once a day

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Infradian

Front 9

Endogenous rhythm that occurs more frequently than once a day

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Ultradian

Front 10

A controversial disorder in which a person experiences depression during winter and an improvement in spring

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Seasonal Affection Disorder (SAD)

Front 11

The nucleus that is located in the hypothalmus that controls the sleep-wake cycle

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Suprachiasmatic nucleus

Front 12

How much of our lives is spent asleep?

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1/3

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A procedure in which the practitioner suggests changes in the sensations, perceptions, thoughts and feelings

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hypnosis

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Interaction between social influences of hypnotist and the beliefs and expectations of the subject

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Sociocognitive Theory

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Dreaming results from the cortical synthesis and interpretation of neural signals triggered by activity in the power point of the brain

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Activation-Synthesis Approach to Dreams

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Substance capable of influencing perception, mood, cognition and behavior to make a person feel awesome

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psychoactive drugs

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Speed up activity in CNS (coffee, nicotine, crack, crystal meth)

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Stimulants

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Slow down activity in CNS (alcohol, hypnotic drugs)

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Depressants

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Mimic endorphines and relieve pain (Opium, heroine, morphine)

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Opiates

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Disrupt normal thought processes (shrooms)

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Psychedelic drugs

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Blocks the brain's reuptake of dopamine and norepinephrine, raising levels of these neurotransmitters which results in over-stimulation of certain brain circuits and a brief euphoric high

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Cocaine

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Reactions to drugs depend on...

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body weight, metabolism, state of emotional arousal, physical tolerence, the # of time a person uses the drug, environment (where? with whom), mental state, expectations

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The detection of physical energy emitted or reflected by physical objects by cells

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Sensation

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organizing sensory impulses into meaningful patterns

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perception

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They say that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts (a lot of individual pictures that make up a big picture)

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Gestalt Physchologists

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Things close to one another are grouped .... .... ....

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Proximity Principle

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Brain fills in gaps < 3

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Closure

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Visual cues that require both eyes

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Binocular Cues

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The accurate perception of objects as stable or unchanged despite changes in the sensory patterns they produce

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Visual constancies

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The ability to perceive something without ordinary sensory information, has not been scientifically demonstrated

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Extrasensory Perception (ESP)

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A relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience

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Learning

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An approach to psychology that emphasizes the study of observable behavior and the role of the environment as a determinant of behavior

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Behaviorism

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The association between environmental stimuli and the organisms response

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Conditioning

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This scientist believes in extreme environmentalism

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Watson

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The process by which a perviously neutral stimulus acquires the capacity to elicit a response through association with a stimulus that already elicits a response

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Classical Conditioning

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All classical conditioning begins with an...

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Inate Reflex

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physiologist nathaniel kleitman did this:

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only person to spend entire career studying sleep. found REM correlated with sleepers brain wave patterns

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REM period avg, time

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20 mins

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non REM dreams tend to be

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shorter less vivid and more realistic.. EXCEPT in the hour before a person wakes up in the morning

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REM behavior disorder

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when the muscle paralysis in REM sleep does not occur

ex. guy dreaming about football would attempt to tackle a piece of furniture

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lucid dreams

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when you know you are dreaming and feel like you are conscious

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freud about dreams and anxiety

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every dream is meaningful but if the dreams message arouses anxiety, the mind distorts or disguises the image.

if it didnt we would be tapped into our unconscious and wake up

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manifest content of dreams vs. latent

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what you actually dream

latent-- what the dream stands for

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cognitive approach-- dreams as thinking

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during sleep we are cut off from sensory input and feedback from the world.. so our only input is our brains

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leading contender for reasons for dreaming

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cognitive (because it incorporates many beliefs -- expresses concerns and interests)