Psychology 101: Introduction to Psychology. What is Psychology?
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Psychology-
Chapter 5
Consciousness
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Assignment
Keep a dream journal for 10 days to see what you can remember.
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Study of consciousness
Construct Concept used to talk about something
we cannot see, touch, or measure directly
Examples Intelligence, emotions, consciousness
Consciousness tends to mean awareness
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Types of Consciousness Consciousness of sensory awareness
sounds or smell around you Selective attention- Focusing on
particular stimulus- Watching TV and Studying Teenage Brains:
Can they multitask?, Digital Natives Experiment Pick out the speech of an individual in a
crowded room with everyone talking.
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Consciousness as direct inner awareness Imagination….. Trip to the lake
Consciousness as sense of self Young child “ Name wants milk” how we exist in the world Matrix ???? Men in Black
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Levels of consciousness
Preconscious level not aware of right now but can be
thought of in an instant
Unconscious level Not available in most instances, gut
feeling on things??? Sigmund Freud
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Non-conscious level internal organs working, fingernails
growing, judging distance, shapes
Altered states of consciousness sleep, drugs, hypnosis
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Sleep and dreams Circadian rhythms-
24 hours long Stages of sleep-
Measured by EEG
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Brain wave patterns
Beta When we are awake and alert, short and
quick
Alpha When brain waves slow and we start to relax
Theta First stages of sleep, slower waves
Delta Deepest level of sleep, very slow waves
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Stages of Sleep
Stage 1- Stage 2- Stage 3- Stage 4- REM- Rapid eye movement
Chart 108
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Sleep Facts
Sleep facts Next slides Sleeping and coffee Sleeping and Alcohol Sleep and Driving
What is the good habits of sleep? Why is it difficult to accomplish?
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Interesting Sleep Facts
Ducks at risk of attack by predators are able to balance the need for sleep and survival, keeping one half of the brain awake while the other slips into sleep mode
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A new baby typically results in 400-750 hours lost sleep for parents in the first year –
REM sleep occurs in bursts totalling about 2 hours a night, usually beginning about 90 minutes after falling asleep.
- Dreams, once thought to occur only during REM sleep, also occur (but to a lesser extent) in non-REM sleep phases. It's possible there may not be a single moment of our sleep when we are actually dreamless.
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Seventeen hours of sustained wakefulness leads to a decrease in performance equivalent to a blood alcohol-level of 0.05%.
- The 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska, the Challenger space shuttle disaster and the Chernobyl nuclear accident have all been attributed to human errors in which sleep-deprivation played a role.
The NRMA estimates fatigue is involved in one in 6 fatal road accidents
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- It's impossible to tell if someone is really awake without close medical supervision. People can take cat naps with their eyes open without even being aware of it.
- Anything less than five minutes to fall asleep at night means you're sleep deprived. The ideal is between 10 and 15 minutes, meaning you're still tired enough to sleep deeply, but not so exhausted you feel sleepy by day
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Experts say one of the most alluring sleep distractions is the 24-hour accessibility of the internet.
- The extra-hour of sleep received when clocks are put back at the start of daylight in Canada has been found to coincide with a fall in the number of road accidents
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-The record for the longest period without sleep is 18 days, 21 hours, 40 minutes during a rocking chair marathon. The record holder reported hallucinations, paranoia, blurred vision, slurred speech and memory and concentration lapses
- After five nights of partial sleep deprivation, three drinks will have the same effect on your body as six would when you've slept enough.
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Some of the more scientific explanations of why we yawn are caused by physical needs. One likely explanation is that the yawning reflex is triggered when our blood needs more oxygen. The deep breath helps replenish the levels of oxygen in our blood. Another common theory is that the yawn help regulate our body temperature. Other hypotheses suggest that the same chemicals in our brain that affect our moods and emotions cause us to yawn.
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Interesting Yawning Facts * The average yawn lasts about six seconds. * Your heart rate can rise as much as 30
percent during a yawn. * 55 percent of people will yawn within five
minutes of seeing someone else yawn. * Blind people yawn more after hearing an
audio tape of people yawning. * Reading about yawning will make you
yawn. * Olympic athletes often yawn before
competition.
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Sleep facts
We go through the stages an average of 5 times
Bodies are paralyzed (most of the time)
Each cycle lasts about 90 minutes REM becomes longer closer to
morning Each cycle is shorter in time.
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Why do we sleep?
Rest, stress reliever, immune system Will change the aging process if you
don’t get enough sleep Need 8 hours a night? Can you catch up on your sleep? Polyphasic Sleep
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Micro sleep Microsleeps are brief, unintended episodes of loss of
attention associated with events such as blank stare, head snapping, prolonged eye closure, etc., which may occur when a person is fatigued but trying to stay awake to perform a monotonous task like driving a car or watching a computer screen.4
Microsleep episodes last from a few seconds to several minutes, and often the person is not aware that a microsleep has occurred. In fact, microsleeps often occur when a person's eyes are open.
While in a microsleep, a person fails to respond to outside information. A person will not see a red signal light or notice that the road has taken a curve.
Microsleeps are most likely to occur at certain times of the day, such as pre-dawn hours and mid-afternoon hours when the body is "programmed" to sleep.
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Dreams
Lucid Dreams- Know that you are dreaming
Freuds dreams- dreams reflect a persons unconscious wishes and urges. “wishes your heart makes”
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Biological Approach
When neurons fire in the brain- our brain likes to make sense of everything so it makes up dreams to make sense of it.
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Dreams interpretation
http://www.dreammoods.com/http://www.dreammoods.com/dreamdictionary/http://petrix.com/dreams/everything.html
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Sleep problems
Insomnia 34-42 billion spent on sleep aides
Nightmares Not deep stages Remember them
Night terrors- deep stage of sleep Can’t remember younger /
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Sleep walking- Sleepwalkers are not conscious of their actions on a level where memory of the sleepwalking episode can be recalled, and because of this, unless the sleepwalker is woken or aroused by someone else, this sleep disorder can go unnoticed. Sleepwalking is more commonly experienced in people with high levels of stress, anxiety or other psychological factors and in people with genetic factors (family history) or sometimes a combination of both.
18% of the world's population is prone to sleepwalking Sleep talking-Sleep talking or somniloquy, refers to any
utterance made during sleep, and may range from a single word to entire sentences. Although sleep-talking episodes vary, a person typically starts while in deep sleep or NREM. Sleep talking can, however, happen during REM sleep too. It can be initiated by stress or illnesses and is relatively harmless, although disturbing to roommates.
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Sleep apneais a sleep disorder characterized by pauses in breathing during sleep. These episodes, called apneas (literally, "without breath"), each last long enough so one or more breaths are missed, and occur repeatedly throughout sleep. The standard definition of any apneic event includes a minimum 10 second interval between breaths, with either a neurological arousal
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Meditation narrow their consciousness so that
the stresses of the outside world fade away.
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Biofeedback
System that provides information about something happening in the body.
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Hypnosis Altered state of consciousness during
which people respond to suggestions and behave as if in a trance.
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Hypnotize
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Effectiveness of hypnosis
Memory- lose or gain? Pain prevention Habits Dangerous suggestions
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Drugs and consciousness
Addiction After taking a drug for a while their
body craves the drug just to feel normal.
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Depressants
Alcohol Intoxication-1/2 traffic deaths Narcotics- numbness or stupor
Heroine, morphine, codeine
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Ten warning signs of alcoholism
1. Drinking alone 2. Making excuses, finding excuses to drink 3. Daily or frequent drinking needed to function 4. Inability to reduce or stop alcohol intake 5. Violent episodes associated with drinking 6. Drinking secretly 7. Becoming angry when confronted about drinking 8. Poor eating habits 9. Failure to care for physical appearance 10. Trembling in the morning
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Stimulants
Nicotine- 400,000 die birth defects second hand smoke 50,000 deaths each year
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Narcotics- numbness or stupor Heroine, morphine, codeine
Crack Cocaine
Meth
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Amphetamines
uppers, speed-effects of the drug?
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Hallucination
perception of an object or sound that seems real but is not
Delusion- false thought or idea that seems real.
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Cocaine
What are the effects of this drug?
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Hallucinogens
Marijuana what are the effects of the drug
LSD-effects?
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Drug treatment
Detoxification Maintenance programs Counseling support groups.