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Consciousness
Individual and Society Consciousness Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Awareness of what is currently happening in one's environment | Consciousness |
| Easily accessible and remembered information below our consciousness | Subconscious |
| Thoughts and desires we have little or no memory of. Freud argued these come out in our dreams | Unconscious |
| Sequence of events or behaviors in one's body that happen every 24 hours. The cycle of high and low energy in one's day. | Circadian Rhythm |
| Relaxed state before sleep, "dozing" | Twilight stage |
| Stage of sleep: NOT dreaming, muscles and body is fully at rest | Non-REM sleep |
| Stage of sleep: dreams occur, stiff muscles, deepest stage of sleep | REM sleep |
| Dreaming stage of sleep | REM sleep |
| Psychologist who wrote "Interpretation of Dreams," believed that discussing one's dream may help a patient gain insight into their lives | Sigmund Freud |
| Inability to fall asleep or stay asleep | Insomnia |
| Immediately falling into REM sleep (skipping twilight and NREM stages) | Narcolepsy |
| One never gets a good nights rest with this disorder- wake up 100's of times a night from snoring/stop breathing | Sleep Apnea |
| Substance which speeds up bodily functions. There is a crash when the effects wear off. | Stimulant |
| Slows down bodily functions and reduces sensitivity | Depressant |
| Interferes with messages between brain and nervous system, resulting in distortions in perception of reality and time | Hallucinogen |
| Therapy technique were a patient is deeply relaxed and focused on a single train of thought. This creates a situation of high suggestibility. | Hypnosis |
| Turning one's attention away from distracting thoughts and focusing on the present moment | Meditation |
| Heightened alertness, enhanced performance, and "crash" | Stimulant |
| Dulled senses, relaxed muscles | Depressant |
| Hallucinations, feelings of panic and paranoia | Hallucinogen |
| Length of average sleep cycle | 90 minutes |
| Occurs several times a night | Sleep cycles (REM and NREM sleep) |
| Hypnotherapist | A certified therapist |
| 1-Putting the day's events into memory, 2- solving problems, 3- organizing random thoughts and brain impulses are... | Dream Theories |
| Expressing our suppressed wishes and desires that we can't think or act on in our waking life | Freud's Dream Theory |