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Psychology chap
Psychology chap 4-6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Consciousness or awareness | is defined as everything of which we are aware at any given time |
| Sleep is an | altered state of consciousness |
| An altered state of consciousness | is a change in awareness produced by sleep, medication, hypnosis, or drugs |
| The restorative theory of sleep | suggests that being aware produces wear and tear on the body and the brain, while sleep serves the function of restoring body and mind. |
| Insomnia | is a sleep disorder characterized by difficult falling or staying asleep, waking too early or by sleep that is light restless or of poor quality |
| one-third of adult | in the united state suffer from insomnia |
| dreamer and the latent content | the underlying meaning of the dream- which he considered more sign cant |
| Hypnosis | is a procedure through which one person the hypnotist, uses the power of suggestion to induce changes in thoughts, feelings, sensation, perception, or behavior in another person, the subject. |
| The Atkinson-shiffrin model suggest that three memory | 1. Sensory 2. Short-term memory 3. Long-term memory |
| Sensory Memory | is the system of memory the holds information from senses for period of time ranging from a fraction of a second to about 2second (also call icon/ visual memory) |
| Short- term memory | also known as working memory, holds, about seven item for less than 30 second without rehearsal |
| Short-term memory often conforms to the | 7plus or minus 2 rule |
| Long-term memory | is a person vast storehouse of permanent or relatively permanent memories |
| There are two subsystem of long term memory | 1. Declarative memory (or explicit memory) 2. No declarative memory (or implicit memory) |
| Declarative memory | stores facts, information, and personal events that can be brought to mind verbally or in the form of images declared or stated. |
| Two kind declarative memory | 1. Episodic memory 2. Semantic memory |
| Episodic memory | is the type declarative memory that records events as they have been subjectively experience |
| Semantic memory | is memory for general knowledge or objective facts and inform form. |
| Non declarative memory | is the subsystem within long-term memory that metor skills, habits and simple classically conditioned responses. |
| Three type of amnesia | 1. Retrograde amnesia 2. Anterograde amnesia 3. Infantile amnesia |
| Retrograde amnesia | is a loss of memory for experiences that occurred shortly before a loss of consciousness |
| Anterograde amnesia | is the inability to form long-term memory of events occurring after brain trauma although memory form before the trauma are usually intact |
| Infantile amnesia | is the relative inability of older children and adult to recall events from the first few years of life |
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