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Consciousness Chapter 5. Chapter 5 work Track your dreams for interpretation Keep a record of the number of hours you and other members of your family sleep each night for next 4 nights. We will compare the data in class. 3. DO each Section of chapter 5 1 page106 1-3
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Chapter 5 work • Track your dreams for interpretation • Keep a record of the number of hours you and other members of your family sleep each night for next 4 nights. We will compare the data in class. • 3. DO each Section of chapter 5 • 1 page106 1-3 • 2 page 112 1-3 • 3 page116 1-3 • 4 page 121 1-2 • Graphic Organizer and Review handouts • 5. Chapter 5 review Page 122-123 • Terms and concepts review 1-10 • Critical Thinking 1-5
Consciousness: Awareness of things inside and outside of ourselves
Awareness 3 types • Sensory • aware of your environment through sight, taste, smell, hearing Are U Always aware of your environment?
Continued….. • Direct inner awareness • Being aware of things inside of yourself • Thinking abstract concepts, memories ex: feeling angry, love, fairness, ( no hearing, touching or smelling involved)
Continued….. 3. Sense of self (each person experiences) • Aware of ourselves and our existence • A child does not use his name until he realizes I am an Unique individual separate from other people
Preconscious level • What you can recall if you had to
Unconscious level (subconscious) • is unavailable to awareness • Information is hidden • Allowing things to interfere with your plans
Non-conscious level • Biological functions • Blinking of your eyes • Breathing • Nails and hair growing • Pupils adjusting to light
Freud’s theory on Dreams • Certain memories are painful or considered unacceptable. • We develop defense mechanisms to push things from our conscious mind into our unconscious mind
Altered states of consciousness • In which a person’s sense of self or sense of the world changes • Sleeping • Under the influences of drugs • Meditation • Biofeedback • Hypnosis
Sleep and Dreams • Circadian Rhythms • Biological clocks • Body temperature, blood pressure and sleepiness and wakefulness during a 24 hour period
Sleep • Defined in terms of brains wave patterns which can be measured by a EEG (electroencephalograp)
Stages of sleep • Lightest sleep- Brief dream like images that resemble vivid photographs 30-40 minutes • Starting deeper sleep • Deep sleep stage-- slow brain waves • Deepest sleep stage-- hardest to wake up in • REM (rapid eye movement sleep)
Continue….. • The first 4 stages are known as NREM --non rapid eye movement or • Most people go through these stages 5 X during the night • Periods of REM become longer each time • Morning REM may last as long as 30 minutes
Why do we sleep? • Revive the tired body • Build up resistance to infection • Brain development in babies and young children • Exercise the brain in babies • Release growth hormone
No sleep • irritable, memory lapses, and speech difficulties • REM rebound from no sleep • learn slower, forget more rapidly • Can you catch up on your sleep?
DREAMS • During REM most vivid • Black and white and Color • Every time we sleep we dream • People dream in real time
Sleep Problems • Insomnia • the inability to sleep • Nightmares • common for most people • Night Terrors • same as nightmares but much more sever • Children have them
Continued….. • Sleep walking • usually out grow this with age • Sleep Apnea • breathing is interrupted (linked to SIDS) • Narcolepsy • rare sleep problem • Suddenly falling a sleep • No known cause
Meditationa method to narrow their consciousness • the stresses of the outside world fade away
Biofeedback • A system that provides or feeds back information about something happening in the body. • Used to relax, slow the heart, lower blood pressure, and release muscle tension.
Hypnosis • Is an altered state of consciousness during which people respond to suggestions and behave as though they are in a trance. • Can you be hypnotized?
Side effects of drugs • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROlUB99IJRs
Drugs and consciousness • Addiction • Distorts people’s perceptions • change their moods • see or hear things that are not there • Depressants • Alcohol--------Intoxication • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMs7-MQb5as&NR=1
Narcotics • Addictive, depressant • reduce pain • induce sleep • TYPES • Morphine • Heroin • codeine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBWcRMonvWARaise blood pressure, increase heart rate, distorts brain activity “hallucination and delusions” • Nicotine • Amphetamines • Cocaine Hallucinogens • Marijuana, LSD, flashbacks
Treatment for drug abuse • Detoxification • the removal of the harmful substance from the body • Maintenance programs • Counseling • support groups---AA
Dream Away The end!!