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Consciousness and altered states of consciousness

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Consciousness   awareness of sensations,thoughts and feelings being experienced at a given moment.  
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Selective attention   trying to concentrate listening to a person talking while ignoring the background noise.  
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Divided attention   a person talking on the phone while doing the cooking and watching television  
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cocktail party phenomenon   you tend to listen to a conversation that interests you in spite of other conversations going on around you  
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inattention blindness   looking for a particular item and while doing so, failed to notice a friend who was also shopping a few feet away  
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Characteristics common to all altered states of consciousness   decreased sense of self, distorted perception of time, decreased sense of inhibition or loss of self control, alteration in thinking  
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Sleep   is needed by the body to function well. it is not a state of unconsciousness, it is a state of "alternate consciousness"  
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benefits of sleep   increased secretion of growth hormone,strengthen our capacity to remember - learning,it serves to repair the wear and tear on our bodies  
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how many states of sleep are there   4  
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describe stage one of sleep   transition between wakefulness and sleep,images can appear but not true dreaming,low voltage brain waves  
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describe stage two of sleep   person is difficult to wake up,slower,more regular wave patterns, "sleep spindles" appear  
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describe stage three of sleep   slow brain waves, with greater peaks and valleys in the wave pattern  
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describe stage four of sleep   person is least responsive to outside  
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insomnia   dissatisfaction with the amount or quality of one's sleep  
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narcolepsy   a sleep disorder characterized by sleep attack irresistibly falling asleep at in appropriate times  
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sleep apnea   a sleep disorder characterized by temporary cessations of breathing during sleep and repeated momentary awakenings. Brain fails to send breathe signal to the diaphragm and other breathing muscles -breathing stop  
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Night terrors   a sleep disorder charachterized by high arousal and an appearance of being terrified  
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Hypnosis   is a specific and unusual form of verbal control that apparently enables one person to control some of another persons behaviour, including thinking and perceiving  
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Dreams   a sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping persons mind  
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functions of dreams   dreaming as wish fullfillment, dreaming as story constuction,dreaming as learning  
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Homeostatic sleep process   8 hours of sleep to 16hours of wakefulness every 24 hours  
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Circadian rhythm process   are biological processes that occur repeatedly on approximately 24 hour cycles (internal clock)  
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Melatonin   the hormone secreted by the pineal gland which help promote sleep  
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