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A person's awareness of everything that is going on around him/her at any given moment.
Used to organize behavior. |
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| Altered States of Consciousness |
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| Shift in the quality or pattern of mental activity as compared to waking consciousness. |
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| A cycle of bodily rhythm that occurs over 24 hours. |
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| Any significant loss of sleep, resulting in problems in concentration and irritability. |
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| Factors Influencing Sleep |
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Hypothalamus controlled.
Melatonin production.
Body temperature. |
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| Theory of sleep saying that animals and humans evolved sleep patterns to avoid predators by sleeping when they're most active. |
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| Theory of sleep saying that sleep is necessary to the physical health of the body and serves to replenish chemicals and repair cellular damage. |
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Stage of sleep in which your eyes move quickly under the eyelids.
Person is typically experiencing dreams. |
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| Any of the stages of sleep that are not the REM stage. |
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| When you can't get to sleep, stay asleep, or get a good quality of sleep. |
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| When a person falls into REM sleep at random without warning. |
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| When people who are sleeping stop breathing for nearly half a minute or more. |
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Light Sleep
-Theta Wave Activity
- People may not believe they were actually asleep if awakened in this stage. |
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Sleep Spindles
-Brain emits brief bursts of activity lasting for only a second or two. |
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| -Delta Waves emerge. (20-50% of brain wave pattern) |
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-Delta waves are 50%>
Deepest stage of sleep |
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| Freud's Interpretation of Dreams |
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Problems from patients stemmed from conflicts/events from childhood.
- Conflict, events, & desires represented in dreams. |
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The actual dream itself.
ex) Dreaming of crawling out of a bathtub. The dream is literally that. |
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The hidden content of a dream.
- Which Freud believed could only be expressed in symbols. |
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| Activation-Information-Mode Model (AIM) |
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| Info that is accessed during the waking hours can have an influence on the synthesis of dreams. |
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State of consciousness where a person is susceptible to suggestion.
- Hypnosis only works on some people. |
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| The biological aspects of a male of female. |
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| The psychological aspects of being a male or female. |
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Male vs. Female sex glands
Estrogen vs. Testosterone
Prenatal exposure to hormones |
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| A person's sense of being male/female. |
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| Cognitive Gender Differences |
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| Each sex uses hemisphere of brain differently. Score differently on tests, etc. |
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| Social/Personality Differences |
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Each sex interacts with peers differently.
ex)Men "report" to their friends, women "relate" to their friends. |
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| A person who is biologically born one sex but is psychologically another sex. |
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| A Person who possesses ambiguous sexual organs, making it difficult to determine actual sex at birth. |
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| Cultures have specific expectations for masculine and feminine behavior, including attitudes, actions, and personality traits associated with being male/female in that culture. |
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| Social Learning Theory (Sex/Gender) |
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| Gender role development has been learned. |
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| Child develops mental pattern for being male/female and then organizes observed and learned behavior around that schema. |
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| Acceptance of positive stereotypes of males/females that leads to unequal treatment. |
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| Prejudice about males/females leading to unequal treatment. |
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| People whose personalities reflect positive characteristics of both genders. |
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| The first observational study of human sexual behavior. |
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Phase one: Excitement
Phase two: Plateau
Phase three: orgasm
Phase four: Resolution |
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Organic- physical problems such as illness, side effects from meds, physical disabilities, etc...
Sociocultural- being taught things that help form a negative opinion towards sex or guilt for interest in sex acts i.e Religions
Psychological- low self esteem, depression, anxiety |
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| a disorder in which the person either prefers, or must, achieve sexual arousal from strange sex acts |
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| the scientific study of ow a persons thoughts, feelings and behavior are influenced by the real, imagined or implied presence of others. |
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| the process through which the real or implied presence of others can directly or indirectly influence the thoughts, feelings, and behavior of an individual |
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| changing ones own behavior to match that of someone else. |
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| kind of thinking that occurs when people place more importance on maintaining group cohesiveness than on assessing the facts of the problem with which the group is concerned. |
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| changing ones behavior as a result of other people asking for the change |
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| the tendency for the presence of other people to have a positive impact on the performance of an easy task |
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| the tendency for the presence of other people to have a negative impact on the performance of a difficult task |
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| the tendency for people to put less effort into a simple task when working with others on that task |
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ABC
Affective component: is the way a person feels towards the object, person or situation.
Behavior component: is the action that a person takes in regard to the person, object or situation.
Cognitive component: the way a person thinks about a person, object of situation. |
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| sense of discomfort or distress that occurs when a persons actions are not the same as their attitudes. |
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