Psychology Chapter on Consciousness

Sensory awareness of the world outside, direct inner awareness of one's thoughts and feelings, personal unity, and the waking state.

The focus of one's consciousness on a particular stimulus.

Knowledge of one's own thoughts, feelings, and memories without the use of sensory organs.

<p>Material that is not in awareness but can be brought into awareness by focusing one's attention.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ideas and feelings that are not available to awareness; also defined as being without consciousness.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The automatic ejection of anxiety-evoking ideas, impulses, or images from awareness.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Descriptive of bodily processes, such as growing hair, of which we cannot become conscious.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The deliberate placing of certain ideas, impulses, or images out of awareness.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A cycle connected with the 24-hour period of the earth's rotation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Rapid low-amplitude brain waves linked to feelings of relaxation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The first four stages of sleep.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A stage of sleep characterized by rapid eye movements, which have been linked to dreaming.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Slow brain waves produced during the hypnagogic state.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Strong, slow brain waves usually emitted during stage 4 sleep.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The view that the content of dreams tends to be consistent with previous cognitive activity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The view that dreams reflect activation of cognitive activity by the reticular formation and synthesis of this activity into a pattern.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A 'sleep attack' in which a person falls asleep suddenly and irresistibly.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Temporary absence or cessation of breathing while sleeping.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Frightening, dream-like experiences that occur during the deepest stage of NREM sleep.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An altered state of consciousness in which people are highly suggestible and behave as though they are in a trance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A theory that explains hypnotic events in terms of the person's ability to act as though he or she were hypnotized.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The view that response expectancies play a key role in the production of the experiences suggested by the hypnotist.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A simplified form of meditation used as a method for coping with stress.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A form of meditation that provides techniques to focus on the present moment rather than ruminate about problems.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A system that provides information about a bodily function to an organism.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The systematic feeding of information back to an organism about a bodily function so that the organism can gain control of that function.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Muscle tension.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Drugs that have psychological effects such as stimulation or distortion of perceptions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A drug that lowers the rate of activity of the nervous system.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A drug that increases activity of the nervous system.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Loss of control over usage, social impairment, risky use, and tolerance and withdrawal symptoms.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Habituation to a drug, resulting in the need for increasingly higher doses to achieve similar effects.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A characteristic cluster of withdrawal symptoms that results from sudden decrease in an addictive drug's level of usage.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They act by slowing the activity of the central nervous system.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Having five or more drinks in a row for a male, or four or more for a female.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A group of narcotics derived from the opium poppy that provide a euphoric rush and depress the nervous system.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Drugs used to relieve pain and induce sleep, usually reserved for opiates.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chemicals that act on opiate receptors but are not derived from the opium poppy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An addictive depressant.</p> Signup and view all the answers