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Psy 120 - Chapter 5 - ConsciousnessConsciousness - correct answer Our awareness of ourselves and our environment Alternate State of Consciousness (ASC) - correct answer A mental state, other than ordinary waking consciousness, that occurs during sleep, dreaming, psychoactive drug use and hypnosis Selective Attention - correct answer The process of focusing conscious awareness onto a specific stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli occurring simultaneously Perciptual Blindness / Inattentional Blindness - correct answer The failure to notice an unexpected stimulus when our attention is directed elsewhere. Levels of Awareness - correct answer Controlled process Autonomic process Subconscious Little or no awareness Alternate states of consciousness Controlled Process - correct answer Highest level of consciousness. Requires focused, maximum attention (studying, learning to drive) Automatic Process - correct answer Requires minimal attention (walking & talking on phone, listening to boss & daydreaming) Subconscious - correct answer Below conscious awareness (subliminal perception, sleeping, dreaming) Little or No Awareness - correct answer Biological based lowest level of awareness (head injury, anesthesia, coma). Also the unconscious mind (reportably consisting of unacceptable thoughts and feelings too painful to be admitted to consciousness) Alternate States of Consciousness (ASCS) - correct answer Lowest level of awareness Can exist on many levels of awareness (drugs, sensory deprivation, sleep, dreaming etc) Awareness Location in the Brain - correct answer Cerebral Cortex (frontal lobe) Arousal Location in the Brain - correct answer Brainstem activation Circadian Rhythms - correct answer Consistent pattern of cyclical bodily activities, governed by our internal biological clock - a 24 -25 hour cycle. Sleep Depervation - correct answer Increased risk of cancer, heart disease, obesity etc. Chronic = degeneration of the neurons and premature aging of the brain Stages of Sleep - correct answer 4 -5 cycles each lasting approximately 90 minutes. Sequence = NREM-1-2-3-REM4- 3-2-1 Non- Rapid Eye Movement (NREM) Sleep - correct answer Stages 1-3 of sleep during which a sleeper does not show REM (Dreams occur less frequently) Stage 1 NREM - correct answer Light stage of sleep Myclonic jerks - sudden muscle movement accompanied with feeling of falling Stage 2 NREM - correct answer Light stage of sleep Muscle activities further decrease and sleep spindles occur (sudden surge of brainwave frequency) Stage 3 NREM - correct answer Deepest level of sleep