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States of Consciousness

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An individual's awareness of external events and internal sensatins under a condition of arousal, including awareness of the self and thoughts about one's experiences.   Conciousness  
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Term used by William James to describe the mind as a continuous flow of changing sensations, images, thoughts, and feelings.   Stream of Consciousness  
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choosing to attend to stimuli that draws our attention   pop-out phenomenon  
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When we meet people we immediately and unconciously react to   gender, age, and appearance before becoming aware of our repsonse.  
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The most alert states of human consciousness; individuals actively focus their efforts toward a goal.   Controlled processes  
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Involves controlled processing in which individuals actively focus their efforts on attaining a goal; the most alert state of consciousness.   High-level Consciousness  
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Includes automatic processing that requires little attention as well as daydreaming.   Lower-level consciousness  
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Can produced by drugs, trauma, fatigue, possibly hypnosis, and sensory deprivation.   Altered states of consciousness  
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Can occur when people are awake as well as they are sleeping and dreaming   Subconcscious Awareness  
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Freud's belief that some unconcious thoughts are too laden with anxiety and other negative emotions for consciousness to admit them.   No awareness  
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States of consciousness that require little attention and do not interfere with ongoing activities. Automatic processes require less conscious effort than controlled processes.   Automatic processes  
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According to Freud, a reservoir of unacceptable wishes, feelings, and thoughts that are beyond conscious awareness .   Unconscious thought  
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The most alert states of human consciousness; individuals actively focus their efforts toward a goal.   controlled processes  
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States of consciousness that require little attention and do not interfere with other ongoing activities. Automatic processes require less conscious effort than controlled processes.   automatic processes  
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According to Freud, a reservoir of unacceptable wishes; feelings, and thoughts that are beyond conscious awareness.   unconscious thought  
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Periodic physiological fluctuations in the body, such as the rise and fall of hormones and accelerated/decelerated cycles of brain activity, that can influence behavior.   biological rhythms  
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Daily behavioral or physiological cycles that involve the sleep/wake cycle, body temperature, blood pressure, adn blood sugar level.   circadian rhythms  
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A small brain structure that uses input from the retina to synchronize its own rhythm with the daily cycle of light and dark; the body's way of monitoring the change from day to night.   suprachiasmatic nucleus (scn)  
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An active stage of sleep during which dreaming occurs.   REM sleep  
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According to Freud, the surface content of a dream, containing dream symbols that disguise the dream's true meaning.   manifest content  
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According to Freud, a dream's hidden content; its unconscious and true meaning.   latent content  
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Theory proposing that we can understand dreaming by applying the same cognitive concepts we use in studying the waking mind.   cognitive theory of dreaming  
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Theory that dreaming occurs when the cerebral cortex synthesizes neural signals generatee from acivity in the lower brain and that dreams result from the brain's atempts to find logic in random brain activity that occurs during sleep.   activation-synthesis theory  
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