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PSYC Chapter Five

MTA PSYC 1001 Chapter Five: Consciousness

TermDefinition
Sleep Paralysis The state of being unable to move just before falling asleep or right before waking up.
Incubus Phenomenon A type of sleep paralysis, where the sleeping person feels awake but hallucinates a human, animal, or other being that carries out aggressive acts.
Sleep Paralysis The state of being unable to move just before falling asleep or right before waking up.
Sleep Paralysis The state of being unable to move just before falling asleep or right before waking up.
Incubus Phenomenon A type of sleep paralysis, where the sleeping person feels awake but hallucinates a human, animal, or other being that carries out aggressive acts.
Incubus Phenomenon A type of sleep paralysis, where the sleeping person feels awake but hallucinates a human, animal, or other being that carries out aggressive acts.
Consciousness Our subjective experience of the world, our bodies, and our mental perspectives.
Consciousness Our subjective experience of the world, our bodies, and our mental perspectives.
Fantasy-Prone Personalities Personalities that spend at around half their lives caught up in daydreams and fantasies (2-4% of population).
Biological Clock A term for the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus (SCN) in the hypothalamus that is responsible for controlling our levels of alertness.
Locked-In Syndrome Is a misdiagnose of someone being in a coma, yet they are actually awake and alert.
Circadian Rhythm Are cyclical changes that occur on a roughly 24-hour basis in many biological processes.
Biological Clock A term for the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus (SCN) in the hypothalamus that is responsible for controlling our levels of alertness.
Rapid Eye Movement (REM) Darting of the eyes underneath closed eyelids during sleep.
Non-REM Sleep Stages 1 through 4 of the sleep cycle, during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming is less frequent and vivid.
Rapid Eye Movement (REM) Darting of the eyes underneath closed eyelids during sleep.
Stage One Sleep Lasts 5-10 minutes, the brain powers down by 50% or more, the
Non-REM Sleep Stages 1 through 4 of the sleep cycle, during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming is less frequent and vivid.
Stage One Sleep Lasts 5-10 minutes, the brain powers down by 50% or more, the
Sleep Paralysis The state of being unable to move just before falling asleep or right before waking up.
Incubus Phenomenon A type of sleep paralysis, where the sleeping person feels awake but hallucinates a human, animal, or other being that carries out aggressive acts.
Consciousness Our subjective experience of the world, our bodies, and our mental perspectives.
Fantasy-Prone Personalities Personalities that spend at around half their lives caught up in daydreams and fantasies (2-4% of population).
Locked-In Syndrome Is a misdiagnose of someone being in a coma, yet they are actually awake and alert.
Circadian Rhythm Are cyclical changes that occur on a roughly 24-hour basis in many biological processes.
Biological Clock A term for the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus (SCN) in the hypothalamus that is responsible for controlling our levels of alertness.
Rapid Eye Movement (REM) Darting of the eyes underneath closed eyelids during sleep.
Non-REM Sleep Stages 1 through 4 of the sleep cycle, during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming is less frequent and vivid.
Stage One Sleep Lasts 5-10 minutes, the brain powers down by 50% or more, the
Sleep Paralysis The state of being unable to move just before falling asleep or right before waking up.
Incubus Phenomenon A type of sleep paralysis, where the sleeping person feels awake but hallucinates a human, animal, or other being that carries out aggressive acts.
Consciousness Our subjective experience of the world, our bodies, and our mental perspectives.
Fantasy-Prone Personalities Personalities that spend at around half their lives caught up in daydreams and fantasies (2-4% of population).
Locked-In Syndrome Is a misdiagnose of someone being in a coma, yet they are actually awake and alert.
Circadian Rhythm Are cyclical changes that occur on a roughly 24-hour basis in many biological processes.
Biological Clock A term for the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus (SCN) in the hypothalamus that is responsible for controlling our levels of alertness.
Rapid Eye Movement (REM) Darting of the eyes underneath closed eyelids during sleep.
Non-REM Sleep Stages 1 through 4 of the sleep cycle, during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming is less frequent and vivid.
Stage One Sleep Lasts 5-10 minutes, the brain powers down by 50% or more, the
Sleep Paralysis The state of being unable to move just before falling asleep or right before waking up.
Incubus Phenomenon A type of sleep paralysis, where the sleeping person feels awake but hallucinates a human, animal, or other being that carries out aggressive acts.
Consciousness Our subjective experience of the world, our bodies, and our mental perspectives.
Fantasy-Prone Personalities Personalities that spend at around half their lives caught up in daydreams and fantasies (2-4% of population).
Locked-In Syndrome Is a misdiagnose of someone being in a coma, yet they are actually awake and alert.
Circadian Rhythm Are cyclical changes that occur on a roughly 24-hour basis in many biological processes.
Biological Clock A term for the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus (SCN) in the hypothalamus that is responsible for controlling our levels of alertness.
Rapid Eye Movement (REM) Darting of the eyes underneath closed eyelids during sleep.
Non-REM Sleep Stages 1 through 4 of the sleep cycle, during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming is less frequent and vivid.
Stage One Sleep Lasts 5-10 minutes, the brain powers down by 50% or more, the brain produces theta waves, we may experience hypnagogic imagery, and we also experience myoclonic jerks.
Stage Two Sleep Sleep spindles and K-complexes occur, brain activity decelerates, bodily functions become slow and relaxed.
Stages Three and Four of Sleep Slow wave deep sleep, the brain produces delta waves.
Stage Five Sleep Is known as REM sleep, increased blood pressure and heart rate, rapid breathing.
REM Rebound After being deprived of REM sleep, the amount and intensity of REM sleep increases to catch up.
Middle Ear Muscle Activity A phenomenon where our muscles of our inner ears become active, almost like they're assisting us to hear sounds in dreams.
Paradoxical Sleep Another term for REM sleep, because the brain is active at the same time the body is inactive.
REM Behavior Disorder (RBD) A disorder where someone is not paralyzed during REM sleep, causing them to act out their dream.
Lucid Dreaming The experience of becoming aware that you are dreaming.
Insomnia The most common sleep disorder, characterized by the difficulty falling and staying asleep.
Rebound Insomnia Long term use of sleeping pills can create dependency, which makes it more difficult to fall asleep once people stop taking them.
Narcolepsy A sleep disorder characterized by the rapid and unexpected onset of sleep.
Cataplexy Is a complete loss of muscle tone, leading to one's muscles becoming limp. Happens during REM sleep and to those with narcolepsy.
Orexin A hormone that plays a key role in triggering sudden attacks of sleepiness.
Sleep Apnea A sleep disorder that is caused by a blockage of the airway during sleep, which leads to people constantly waking up during sleep.
Night Terrors Sudden waking episodes characterized by screaming, perspiring, and confusion followed by a return to sleep.
Somnambulism Sleepwalking.
Sexsomnia Engaging in sexual acts while sleeping and not being able to remember what occurred.
Dream-Work Part of Freud dream protection theory, the ego disguises and contains sexual and aggressive impulses by transforming them into symbols in our dreams.
Manifest Content Details of the dream itself.
Latent Content The true, hidden meaning of a dream.
Activation-Synthesis Theory A theory that dreams reflect inputs from brain activation originating in the pons, which the forebrain then attempts to understand by weaving it into a story.
Protoconsciousness A primitive or primary state of brain organization.
Neurocognitive Theory A theory that dreams are supported by the brain's default network and are a meaningful product of our cognitive capacities, which shape what we dream about.
Dream Continuity Hypothesis The hypothesis that there is continuity between dreams, and that dreams often mirror real life circumstances.
Hallucinations Are realistic perceptual experiences in the absence of any external stimuli.
Out of Body Experience (OBE) Are experiences where the sense of our consciousness leaves our body.
Near Death Experiences (NDE) Are out of body experiences reported by people who've nearly died.
Mystical Experiences Are feelings of unity or oneness with the world, often with strong spiritual overtones.
Hypnosis An interpersonal situation in which imaginative suggestions are administered for changes in consciousness.
Induction A sort of "ritual" that marks the proceedings as hypnosis and creates positive expectations for responses to the suggestions that follow.
Self Hypnosis Is when suggestions are self-administered.
Past Life Regression Therapy Therapeutic approach that hypnotizes and supposedly age-regresses patients to a previous life to identify the source of a present day problem.
Sociocognitive Theory An approach to explaining hypnosis based on people's attitudes, beliefs, and expectations.
Dissociation Theory An approach to explaining hypnosis based on a separation between personality functions that are normally well integrated.
Dissociation Hilgard defined it as a division of consciousness, in which attention, effort, and planning are carried out without awareness.
Psychoactive Drugs Substances that contain chemicals similar to those found naturally in our brains that alter consciousness by changing chemical processes in neurons.
Substance Use Disorder Is when someone experiences recurrent significant impairment or distress associated with drugs.
Tolerance The reduction in the effect of a drug as a result of repeated use, requiring users to consume greater amounts to achieve the same effect.
Withdrawal Unpleasant effects of reducing or stopping consumption of a drug that users had consumed habitually.
Physical Dependence Is when someone continues to take a drug to avoid withdrawal symptoms.
Psychological Dependence Is when continued use of a drug is motivated by intense cravings.
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