States Of Consciousness

Front 1

Daydreaming

Back 1

Provide stimulation and allows you to have positive emotions

Front 2

Attention

Back 2

State of focused awareness

Front 3

Consciousness

Back 3

Awareness of the outside world and yourself, including mental processes, etc.

Front 4

Preconscious

Back 4

Level of consciousness that is outside of awareness but contains feelings and memories that can be brought into conscious awareness.

Front 5

Nonconscious

Back 5

Level of consciousness devoted to processes completely inaccessible to conscious awareness. Ex. Blood flow

Front 6

Unconscious

Back 6

Level of consciousness that includes unacceptable feelings, wishes, etc, that are not available to conscious awareness.

Front 7

Unconsciousness

Back 7

Loss of response to the environment.

Front 8

Hypothalamus

Back 8

Controls biological clock

Front 9

Circadian Rhythms

Back 9

Cycles of changes

Front 10

Reticular Formation

Back 10

Works with thalamus involved in the changes in wakefulness, arousal, and attention.

Front 11

Sleep

Back 11

Combination of states of consciousness and physiological arousal.

Front 12

Electroencephalograms

Back 12

Reveal brain waves; shows changes throughout sleep cycle

Front 13

Hypnagogic State

Back 13

Semi-wakeful state of dreamlike awareness

Front 14

Nightmares

Back 14

Occur during REM sleep. Dreams from other are less vivid

Front 15

Lucid Dreaming

Back 15

Ability to be aware of one’s dreams

Front 16

Manifest content

Back 16

Story line of a dream

Front 17

Latent content

Back 17

Underlying meaning of a dream

Front 18

Activation-synthesis theory

Back 18

Proposed by Robert McCarley & J. Alan Hobson; During a dream, pons generates bursts of action potential to forebrain=activation, dreamer tries to make sense of stimulation by creating a story line=synthesis.

Front 19

Insomnia

Back 19

Inability to fall asleep/stay asleep.

Front 20

Narcolepsy

Back 20

Suddenly falling into REM sleep

Front 21

Sleep apnea

Back 21

A sleep disorder; Temporary cessations of breathing

Front 22

Night Terrors

Back 22

Disruptions in stage 4, child will scream and have intense fear

Front 23

Somnambulism

Back 23

Sleep walking; rise out of bed/do complex activity, stage 4

Front 24

Psychoactive Drugs

Back 24

Chemicals that can pass through the blood-brain barrier into the brain to alter perception, thinking, etc

Front 25

Psycho. Dependence

Back 25

Person has intense desire to achieve drugged state

Front 26

Tolerance

Back 26

Decreased responsiveness

Front 27

Addiction

Back 27

Changes in brain chemistry develop; to prevent withdrawal symp

Front 28

Withdrawal Symp.

Back 28

Include intense cravings and effects opposite of the drug

Front 29

Depressants

Back 29

Drugs that reduce activity of central nervous system

Front 30

Narcotics

Back 30

Depress central nervous system/pain reducers

Front 31

Stimulants

Back 31

Drugs that activate motivational centers/reduce inhibitors

Front 32

Hallucinogens

Back 32

Drugs that alter moods, distort perceptions, evoke sensory

Front 33

Stage 1 of Sleep

Back 33

EEG shows theta waves, which are higher in frequency and lower amplitude then beta waves. Hypnagogic State

Front 34

Stage 2 of Sleep

Back 34

EEG shows high frequency bursts of brain activity and K complexes.

Front 35

Stage 3 of Sleep

Back 35

Falling more deeply into sleep; EEG shows very high amplitude and very low frequency delta waves

Front 36

Stage 4 of Sleep

Back 36

Deepest sleep stage; EEG shows mostly delta waves, heart rate, blood flow, temp, etc are reduced, secrete growth hormone