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Consciousness

Consciousness. Sensation and Perception examined the effects of sensory input and how it is interpreted. Consciousness examines how we process and define our world. Suggested supplemental material: Internet Listening : Radio Lab ( www.wnyc.org ) Season One: “Who Am I?”

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Consciousness

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  1. Consciousness Sensation and Perception examined the effects of sensory input and how it is interpreted. Consciousness examines how we process and define our world.

  2. Suggested supplemental material: Internet Listening: Radio Lab (www.wnyc.org) • Season One: “Who Am I?” • Season Two: “Where Am I?” • Season Three: “Sleep” Learning Objectives: • States of Consciousness (sleep) • Hypnosis (fantasy prone personality) • Altering Consciousness

  3. Meanings of consciousness • Sensory awareness • Select aspect of attention • Direct inner awarenessFreud: Preconscious, Unconscious, Nonconscious • Personal Unity • Waking State

  4. Sleep & Dreams • Tool: EEG • Measure: Brain Waves • States: • Awake, (beta waves) • Relaxed, (alpha waves) • Sleeping (theta, delta)

  5. 5 Stages of Sleep Stages 1 - 4 (NREM) • Stage 1: theta waves, Hypnagogic state • Stage 2: brain spindles • Stage 3: delta waves • Stage 4: Deepest Stage • sleep terror, bedwetting, sleepwalking

  6. 5 Stages of Sleep • Stage 5 (REM) • “Paradoxical Sleep” • Nightmares • Sleep paralysis • An explanation of Alien Abduction claims (solved!)

  7. SLEEP: miscellaneous • Function: Why do we sleep? • Freud: • dream interpretation • Activation-Synthesis Model • Sleep Disorders

  8. Hypnosis • Franz Anton Mesmer • “Mesmerism” • “Animal Magnetism” • Hypnosis • Hypnosis terms

  9. Theories of Hypnosis • Role Theory • Focus on hypnotic suggestions • Not Faking • Response Set Theory • Expectancies • Neodissociation Theory • Imagination as distraction

  10. Role of Fantasy • Fantasy Prone Personality • Spend much time, vivid • Normal: future situations • planning, decision making • Sexual fantasies are normal • Males: higher frequency • Deviant: sex & aggression • Males: emotionally unstable, socially alienated

  11. Theories of Hypnosis • Franz Anton Mesmer • “Mesmerism” “Animal Magnetism” Hypnosis • Hypnosis terms • Role Theory (Not Faking) • Focus on hypnotic suggestions • Response Set Theory • Expectancies • Neodissociation Theory (E. Hildegard) • Imagination as distraction

  12. CONSCIOUSNESS • Meditation • Act/process of thinking vs. ritual exercises • Spiritual, philosophical • Valuable for relaxation, lower BP • Biofeedback • Obtain environmental info • Develop control • Employ it when needed

  13. Altering Consciousness Through Drugs Depressants • Alcohol (Wernicke-Korsakoff) • Opiates • Barbiturates

  14. Altering Consciousness Through Drugs Stimulants: • Amphetamines • Nicotine • Cocaine

  15. Altering Consciousness Through Drugs Hallucinogenics • Marijuana • mild hallucinogen • Lysergic Acid Dithalimide • “LSD” • Synthetic ergot

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