Chapter 4- Consciousness

A hypothesis of dreaming proposing that the brain tries to make sense of random brain activity that occurs during sleep by synthesizing the activity with stored memories.

A failure to notice large changes in one’s environment.

Biological patterns that occur at regular intervals as a function of time of day.

One’s moment-to-moment subjective experience of the world.

Attention that is directed voluntarily.

Attention that is directed involuntarily by a stimulus.

 A facilitation in the response to a stimulus due to recent experience with that stimulus or a related stimulus.

 The stage of sleep marked by rapid eye movements, paralysis of motor systems, and dreaming.

The processing of information by sensory systems without conscious awareness.

People with this disorder act out their dreams while sleeping, often striking their sleeping partners.

The ______ theory proposes that sleep has evolved to keep animals quiet and inactive during times of the day when there is the greatest danger, usually when it is dark.

According to the ____ theory, sleep allows the body, including the brain, to rest and repair itself.

When you drift off to sleep, you enter stage 1. Here, the EEG shows short bursts of irregular waves called___ waves.

According to this______ theory of hypnosis, hypnotized people behave as they expect hypnotized people to behave, even if those expectations are faulty.

 The ____ theory of hypnosis acknowledges the importance of social context to hypnosis, but it views the hypnotic state as an altered state . According to this theory, hypnosis is a trancelike state in which conscious awareness is separated, or dissociated, from other aspects of consciousness.

Religious ceremonies often decrease awareness of the external world and create feelings of euphoria called ____ .

Being in a state that changes your subjective perception of consciousness from how you typically experience it is referred to as ____.

______ occurs when a task is so well learned that we can do it without much attention.

A mental procedure that focuses attention on an external object, an internal event, or a sense of awareness.

When athletes talk about being “in the zone,” they are referring to a state of___.

____ is necessary for circadian cycles that regulate sleep