Psych, chpt 8- consciousness
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- consciousness
- the person's subjective experience of the world and mind
- cartesian theatre
- rene descartes. a mental screen or stage on which things appear to be presented for viewing by the mind's eye
- phenomenology
- how things seem to a conscious person
- problem of the minds
- the fundamental difficulty we have in perceiving the consciousness of others
- Mind/Body problem
- The issue of how the mind is related to the brain
- Dichotic Listening
- A task in which people wearing head phones hear different messages presented to each ear. selectivity of consciousness
- Cocktail party phenomenon
- when people filter out conversations and tune others in
- minimal consciousness
- a low level kind of sensory awareness and responsiveness that occurs when the mind inputs sensations and may output behavior
- full consciousness
- consciousness in which you know and are able to report your mental state
- self-consciousness
- consiousness in which you know and are able to report your mental state
- Mental control
- the attempt to change conscious states of mind
- thought suppression
- the conscious avoidance of a thought
- Rebound Effect of thought suppression
- the tendency of a thought to return to conciousness with greater frequency following suppression
- ironic processes of mental control
- mental processes that can produce ironic errors because monitoring for errors can itself produce them
- Dynamic unconscious
- an active system that removes unacceptable thought and memories from consciousness
- Cognitive unconsious
- The mental process that give rise to the person's thoughts, hoices, emotions, and behavior even though they are not experienced by a person
- Subliminal perception
- A thought or behavior hat is influenced by stimuli that a person cannot conciouslyy report percieving
- Altered states of conciousness
- forms of experience that depart from the normal subjective experience of the world and the mind
- Circadian rythm
- a naturally occuring 24-hour cycle
- REM sleep
- a stage of sleep characterized with rapid eye movements and high brain activity
- Manifest Content
- A dreams apparent topic or superficial meaning
- latent content
- a dreams underlying meaning
- activation-synthesis model
- the theory that dreams are produced when the brain attempts to make sense of activations that randomly occur
- psychoactive drug
- a chemical that influences consciousness or behavior by altering the brain's chemical message system
- depressants
- substances that reduce the activity of the central nervous system
- expectancy theory
- the idea that alcohol effects can be produced by people's expecations of how alcohol will influence them in particular situations
- Balanced placebo design
- a study design in which behavior is observed following the presence or absence of a placebo stimulus
- alcohol myopia
- a condition that results when alcohol hampers attention, leading peple to respond in simple ways to complex situations
- stimulants
- substances that excite the central nervous system, heightening arousal and activity levels
- narcotics/opiates
- highly addictive drugs derived from opium that relieve pain