Concious

• ​Aspects of concious
  

  • ​concious

    • ​Monitoring

    • ​Controlling

    • ​Alerted states of concious
      

  • ​preconcious

    • ​remember sth.
      

  • ​unconcious

    • ​dreams

  • • ​Automaticity

    • ​Dissociation

• ​Meditation

  • ​Opening-up meditation
    

    • ​yoga

    • ​Zen
      

  • ​Concentrative meditation
    

• ​Hypnosis

  • ​Characteristic of the hypnotized state
    

    • ​Planfulness ceases
      

    • ​Attention
      

    • ​Enriched fantasty
      

    • ​Reality testing
      

    • ​Suggestibility

    • ​Posthypnotic amnesia
      

  • ​Hallucinations

    • ​Positive

    • ​Negative

  • ​As therapy
    

• ​Psychoactive drugs
  

  • ​Drug dependence
    

    • ​Tolerance

    • ​Withdrawal

    • ​compulsive use
      

  • ​Depressants

    • ​effect

      • ​depress the CNS
        

      • ​inhibit neurotransmitters
        

      • ​slow down communication
        

    • ​Alcohol

      • ​effects

        • ​light-headedness

        • ​relaxation

        • ​release of inhibitations
          

        • ​motor reactions
          

        • ​self-confidence
          

      • ​fetal alcohol syndrome
        

  • ​Illicit drugs
    

    • ​Cannabis

      • ​effect

        • ​high feeling
          

        • ​cognitive and motor impairments
          

        • ​hallucinations

      • ​2 stages
        

        • ​stimulation&euphoria

        • ​tranquility&sleep

      • ​2 clear effect on memory
        

  • ​Opiates

    • ​effects

      • ​reduce pain
        

      • ​alter mood
        

      • ​reduce anxiety
        

    • ​Heroin

      • ​decrease endorphin production
        

      • ​replace body's own natural opiates
        

    • ​develop drugs
      

      • ​Agonists

        bind to the opiod receptors to produce a feeling of pleasure and thereby reduce the craving of opiates.

        but cause less impairment.

        • ​Methadone
          

      • ​Antagonists

        lock onto the opiod receptors but in a way that does not activate them. produce no feeling of pleasure and the craving is not satisfied.

        • ​Naltrexone

  • ​stimulants

    • ​effect

      • ​stimulate neurotransmitters
        

      • ​speed up communication
        

      • ​increasing heart rate and blood pressure
        

      • ​causing the person to become hyperalert
        

    • ​Amphetamines

    • ​Cocaine

    • ​Ecstasy

• ​Sleep and dreams
  

  • ​Stages of sleep
    

    • ​EEG

    • ​5 stages
      

      • ​4 different depth of sleep
        

        • ​Non-REM
          

          • ​no eye movement
            

          • ​heart and breathing rates
            

          • ​muscles

          • ​the brain's metabolic rate
            

      • ​1highly active stage
        

        • ​REM
          

          • ​eye movement rapidly
            

          • ​heart rate
            

          • ​the brain's metabolic
            

          • ​paralyzed

          • ​dreams

          • ​no motor outputs
            

          • ​emotional memories
            

  • ​Sleep theory
    

    • ​Opponent-process model of sleep and weakfulness
      

      • ​Homeostasis sleep drive
        

      • ​Clock-dependent alerting process
        

        • ​so-called biological clock
          

          • ​2 tiny structures
            

          • ​exposure to light
            

            • ​melatonin

  • ​Sleep disorders
    

    • ​Deprivation

    • ​Insomnia

      • ​Subject matter
        

    • ​Narcolepsy
      

      • ​hypocretin deficiency
        

      • ​the intrusion of REM episodes
        

    • ​Apnea

  • ​Dreams

    • ​Theories of dreams
      

      • ​Sigmund Freud