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Psychology Chapter 5
| Front | back |
|---|---|
| conciousness | personal awareness, awareness of internal and external stimuli |
| EEG | monitoring of brains electrical activity |
| brain waves | 4 types: Beta, Alpha, Theta, Delta |
| Beta | 13-24 freq, normal waking thought and alert problem solving |
| Alpha | 8-12 freq, deep relaxation and blank mind and meditation |
| Theta | 4-7 freq, light sleep |
| Delta | less than 4 freq, deep sleep |
| Circadian rythems | 24 hr biological cycles, regulates sleep, temp, hormones, melatonin |
| Sleep stage 1 | 1-7 min, alpha-theta, hypnic jerks |
| Sleep satge 2 | 10-25 min, sleep spindles |
| sleep satge 3+4 | 30 min -slow wave sleep |
| sleep stage 5 | REM |
| REM | brain seems awake, vivid dreaming |
| why sleep | conserve energy, protection, recouperation, growth |
| symptoms of sleep deprivation | accidents, immunity, concentration, irritability |
| insomnia | difficulty falling or satying asleep |
| narcolepsy | falling asleep uncontrollaby |
| sleep apnea | reflexive gasing for air that awakens sleeper |
| nightmares | anxiety arousing dreams-REM |
| nightterrors | intense arousal to panic-NREM |
| sonanbulism | sleepwalking-NREM |
| Why Dream? | info processing, help consolidate memories, |
| pysiological function of sleep | periodic brain stimulation |
| hypnosis | a systematic procedure that increases suggestability |
| explanations of hypnosis | 1-resonse to autority figure, 2-acting like good hynotic subjects |
| divided conciousness | normal split in awareness |
| meditation | practices taht train attention to heighten awareness and bring mental prodcess under greater voluntary control |
| psychoactive drugs | changes perceptions and moods, tolerance requireing more of drug to get same effect |
| withdrawl | discomfort to stopping drug |
| dependence | requiring a drug to feel good |
| depressents | downers: reduce neural acivity and slow body down |
| alcohol | increases normal tendencies, impairs judgement, disrupts memory processing, reduces self awareness, focus on short-not long term, expectations |
| Barbituates | tranquilizers, opiates |
| tranquilizers | reduce anxiety, impair memory and judgement |
| opiates | morphine, heroin: mimic endorphins |
| stimulants | uppers: excite neural activity, speed body functions, use to stay awake, lose weight, boost mood, athletic performance, later cause crash, extreme fatigue, headaches, irritability |
| Nicotine | active ingredient in cigarettes, correlates with depression, chronic disabilities and divorce, causes releasess of epinephrine-diminish appetite, boost alertness, mental efficency |
| withdrawl symptoms of nicotine | cravings, insomnia, anxiety, irritability |
| Cocaine | extract of cocoa leaves, causes rush of euphoria then crash, causes suspiciousness, convulsion, respritory failure, rush uses up bodies supply of dopamire, seratonin and norephinepherne |
| Ecstacy | MDMA:stimulant and hallucinogen, emotinal elevation, and love for everyone, Dehydrating, disrupts sleep, impairs memory, death |
| hallicinogens | distort perceptions, evoke sensory images, LSD:Acid, Euphoria, detachments, panic, see tunnels, bright lights, may harm oneself |
| marijuana | active ingredient-THC, relaxes, disinhibits, euphoric high, impairs motor coordination, percetial skills, reaction time and memory, stays in body for 1 mo. |
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