5833337523 | consciousness | immediate awareness | 0 | |
5833339276 | William James | described consciousness as a stream | 1 | |
5833344175 | cocktail party effect | attend to one stream of speech while ignoring others | 2 | |
5833347194 | inattentional blindness | do not notice a significant object that is in our field of vision | 3 | |
5833351867 | change blindness | do not notice a change in a stimulus | 4 | |
5833356860 | multi-tasking | results in division of attention | 5 | |
5833359639 | circadian | about a day | 6 | |
5833365248 | SCN | governs circadian rhythms, located in the hypothalamus | 7 | |
5833367591 | melatonin | secreted by the pineal gland | 8 | |
5833368769 | pineal gland | endocrine gland located in the brain | 9 | |
5833377022 | EEG | records brain activity | 10 | |
5833380648 | Hans Berger | invented the EEG | 11 | |
5833385411 | beta brain waves | small & fast, while you are awake | 12 | |
5833386902 | alpha brain waves | while you are relaxed | 13 | |
5833388824 | delta brain waves | large & slow, while you are asleep | 14 | |
5833393647 | hypnagogic hallucination | vivid sensory phenomena in light sleep | 15 | |
5833399116 | myoclonic jerk | involuntary muscle spasm, sleep starts | 16 | |
5833414379 | sleep spindles | bursts of brain activity, stage 2 NREM | 17 | |
5833415797 | slow wave sleep | delta waves in stage 3 & 4 NREM | 18 | |
5833474556 | microsleeps | episodes of sleep that last only a few seconds | 19 | |
5833481032 | NREM/REM rebound | person deprived of a type of sleep increases time at the first opportunity | 20 | |
5833489049 | sleep mentation | sleep thinking, ruminations in NREM sleep | 21 | |
5833490786 | dream | happens in REM sleep, perceived as reality | 22 | |
5833493249 | nightmare | happens in REM sleep, vivid & disturbing | 23 | |
5833504018 | Sigmund Freud | wrote The Interpretation of Dreams, dreams are "wish-fulfillment" | 24 | |
5833509401 | manifest content | details of the dream as remembered | 25 | |
5833514276 | latent content | hidden meaning of a dream | 26 | |
5833516319 | Hobson & McCarley | theorized the "Activation-Synthesis" model of dreaming | 27 | |
5833522967 | dyssomnias | sleep disorders that involve disruption of the quality or quantity of sleep | 28 | |
5833525658 | parasomnias | sleep disorders that involve undesirable physical behaviors usually during NREM sleep | 29 | |
5833530680 | insomnia | person regularly experiences inability to fall or stay asleep | 30 | |
5833534454 | obstructive sleep apnea | person stops breathing during sleep | 31 | |
5833536003 | narcolepsy | excessive daytime attacks of sleep throughout the day, a disorder | 32 | |
5833541050 | cataplexy | sudden loss of voluntary muscle control, seen in narcolepsy | 33 | |
5833545336 | sleep/night terrors | occur during NREM sleep, no recollection of event | 34 | |
5833547574 | somnambulism | sleep walking | 35 | |
5833561181 | hypnosis | state of heightened suggestibility | 36 | |
5833563971 | posthypnotic suggestion | suggestion made that participant will act on after a hypnotic session | 37 | |
5833569786 | posthypnotic amnesia | participant unable to recall the hypnotic session | 38 | |
5833578001 | Ernest Hilgard | developed the Neodissociation Theory of Hypnosis | 39 | |
5833582972 | meditation | technique in which attention is focused & awareness is heightened | 40 | |
5833588300 | open monitoring techniques | in meditation, present-centered awareness | 41 | |
5833599419 | drug tolerance | increasing amounts of a drug needed to get desired effect | 42 | |
5833605007 | depressants | class of drugs that inhibit central nervous system activity | 43 | |
5833610137 | alcohol, inhalants, barbituates, tranquilizers | examples of depressants | 44 | |
5833611295 | opiods | class of drugs that relieve pain and produce euphoria | 45 | |
5833622844 | heroin & codeine | examples of opiods | 46 | |
5833625097 | stimulants | class of drugs that increase brain activity | 47 | |
5833631079 | caffeine, nicotine, amphetamines, cocaine | examples of stimulants | 48 | |
5833634663 | stimulant induced psychosis | hallucinations & paranoid ideas as a result of stimulant drug use | 49 | |
5833639596 | psychedlics | class of drugs that create perceptual distortions, mind-manifesting | 50 | |
5833644860 | psilocybin, marijuana, LSD | examples of psychedelics | 51 | |
5833651956 | designer drugs | class of drugs, also known as club drugs | 52 | |
5833654456 | ecstasy (MDMA) | increases serotonin, feelings of well-being, a club drug | 53 | |
5833659743 | PCP | a club drug, a dissociative anesthetic, produces detachment from reality | 54 |
AP Psych Ch. 4 Flashcards
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