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Dream, Drugs, Hypnosis, Human Development
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04/11/2011

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Term
Hypnosis
Definition
an altered state of consciousness characterized by suggestibility and the feeling that one's actions are occurring involuntarily
Term
Franz Anton Mesmer
Definition
  • early form of hypnosis created by him
  • physician in Paris
  • made people think he was magical when he wasn't
  • made people think they where cured
  • found some people are easier to hypnotise
Term
Hypnotic Effects
Definition
  • can do more under hypnosis then in full consciousness
  • some might not be hypnotised but still go with it
  • cures memory loss
Term

Posthypnotic Amnesia

 

Definition

Failure to retrieve memories folloeing hypnotic suggestions to forget

 

Told durring Hypnotice not to remember something and they don't remember when they are out of hypnotice

Term
Hypnotic Analgesia
Definition

reduction oof pain through hypnosis in people who are hypnotically susceptible

 

sometimes works better than drugs

Term
Sleep
Definition
Your mind is off when you sleep but there is still dreams
Term
Altered State of Consciousness
Definition
form of experience that departs significantly from the normal subjective experience of the world and mind
Term
Hypnagogic
Definition
presleep state
Term
hypnotic jerk
Definition
sensation of dropping
Term
Circadian Rhythm
Definition
A naturally occurring 24-hour cycle
Term
EGG
Definition
Measured the sleep cycle and what the brain was doing when you are asleep
Term
Beta Wave
Definition

Awake

(high frequency wave)

Term
Alpha waves
Definition

Drowsy/awake

(low frequence waves)

Term
Theta Waves
Definition
Stage 1 sleep
Term
Sleep Spindles
Definition
Stage 1 sleep
Term
Delta Waves
Definition

deepest sleep

(3/4) slow wave

Fast random

Rem sleep

Term

Rem Sleep

 

Definition
stage of sleep characterized by rapid eye movement and high levels of brain activity
Term

EOG

(Electrooculograph)

 

Definition
instrament that measures eye movement
Term
William Dement / Nathaniel Kleitman
Definition

studied sleep and found dreams happen in real time

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Brain goes from stage to stage when you sleep

 

Going to stage 4 shortens as the night progresses and REM sleep lengthes as the night goes on

 

Go through 5 None REM and REM cycles a night

Term
Sleep lenghts
Definition

sleep alot as a child but as you get older you sleep less

 

adults get 7-7.5 hours on average

Term
Randy Gardner
Definition
Stayed awake for 246 hours and 12 min.
Term
Robert Stickgold
Definition

Found people can't learn things if they are up late

 

they need REM sleep

REM sleep is very important

Term

Sleep Disorders

1

Definition

insomnia

       - most common sleep disorder

       -difficulty in falling asleep and staying asleep

       -15% of adults have it bad 15% have it ever now and then

Sleeping Pills

         -can make sleep disorders worse

Sleep Apnea

         -person stops breathing for a brief perios while asleep

         -ushally snores

Somnambulism

         -sleepwalking

         -most common is children 11 or 12

Narcolepsy

         -fall asleep all of the sudden in the middle of the day

 

Term

Charicteristics of Dreaming

 

Definition
  • feel emotion
  • thoughts are illogical
  • sensations
  • uncritical acceptance
  • difficulty of remembering
  • most remembered is nightmares
  • trauma causes nightmares
Term
Freud
Definition
  • Thinks dreams are designed to be confusing and obscure
  • dreams are wishes we want but are seen as taboo
  • if you think about something before you go to bed you will dream about it
Term

Manifestcontent

 

Definition
dreams apparent topics of superficial meaning
Term
activation-synthesis model
Definition
dreams are produced when the mind attempts to make sense of random neural activity that occurs in the brain during sleep
Term
Psychoactive drugs
Definition
chemicals that influence consciousness or behavior by altering the brain's chemical message system
Term
Use and Abuse of drugs
Definition
  • they take drugs to exsperience an altered state of consciousness
  • ushally plesant at first
  • is adictive
  • not addicted at first but get addicted over usage
Term
Using drugs over time you become...
Definition
  • drug tolerant
  • physically dependent
  • psychologically dependent
Term
Drug Tolerance
Definition

tendency for larger doses of a drug to be require over time to achieve the same effect

 

can lead to overdoses

 

when drugs taken away you can exsperience withdrawl

 

 

Term
What physical dependence causes
Definition

Pain

 

Convulsions

 

Hallucinations

 

other unpleasnat symptoms

Term
What Psychological Dependence causes
Definition

still crave it though your body gave it up

 

an emotional need

 

 

Term

Play now / Pay late

idea

Definition

people have the earge to want fun now and can't see the consequences later

 

you continue is mostly with the people you did it with but take that away and you are more likely to quit

Term
Depressants
Definition
substances that reduce the activity of the central nervous system
Term
What depressants cause
Definition

most commenly used in alcohol

 

has a calming effect

 

get sleepy if you take to much

 

can arrest breathing

 

can cause physical and psychological dependence

 

Term
Alcohol
Definition

12 < (52%) have drank in the last month


18-25 (60%) have drank in the last month


young people drink a lot


influences increased activity in the neuratrons-mitter GABA


GABA-transmitts neural impulses


depressent

Term
Expectancy theory
Definition
suggests that alcohol effects are produced by people's expectations of how alcohol eill influence them in particular situations
Term
Balanced Placebo Design
Definition

behavior is ebserved following the presence or absence of an actual stimulus ans also folloeing the presence or absence of a placebo stimulus

 

people who thought they where drinking alcohol acted drunk

Term
Alchohol Myopia
Definition

alcohol hampers attention, leading people to respind in simple ways to complex situations

 

they do things you always wanted but never could

Term

Barbiturates

Benzodiazepines

Toxic Inhalants

Definition

Perscribed by doctors to treat anxiety or sleep problems

 

causes physical and psychological dependence

Term
stimulants
Definition

excites the central nervous system, heightening arousal and activity levels


was once perscribed


can cause insomnia, aggression, paranoia


increases teh levels of dopamine and norepinephrine in the brain


increases alertness and energy


when taken away causes fatigue and negative emotions

Term
Narcotics / Opiates
Definition

drugs derived from opim that are capable of relieving pain

 

relaxes the user

 

long term uses causes tolerance and dependance

 

brain makes endorphins and endogenous opiates which are neurotransmitters that are closely related to opiates

Term
Hallucinogens
Definition

Produces the most exstreme alterations of consciousness


they're drugs that alter sensations and perceptions often causing hallucinations


ushally derives from plants


the effects are unpredictable


less likely to get hooked on these drugs


overdose deaths are rare

Term
Marijuann
Definition

the leaces and buds of teh hemp plant

 

effects judgment short term memory and impairs motor skills and coordinations

 

makes you hungry

Term
full couscious
Definition
React with suroundings
Term
minimal couscious
Definition
something happended and you respond but don't know it's happening
Term
alterd states of cousciousness
Definition

sleep

 

drugs

 

hypnosis

Term
sleep
Definition

less seep leads to more and more sleep deprivition


how much sleep you need is genetically realted


sleepless leads to agression obiesity learning retriction and illness


Echidna is the only mammal that doesn't sleep EDGAR


adenosine makes you feel sleepy and caffeen blocks it / computers do too


no good reason to why we sleep but it might be related to learning and healing

Term

Sleep Cycles

 

Definition

Awake - Beta waves

Drowsy/Relaxed - Alpha waves

Stage 1 sleep - Theta waves

Stage 2 sleep - Sleep spindals

deep sleep stage 3/4 sleep - Delta waves

REM sleep - Fast random waves

 

get deeper sleep at the begging of sleep and more REM and dreams close to the end of the sleep

Term
Dreams
Definition

2/3 of your dreams have negative emotions to them


Men

2/3 of dreams about men

outdoor

agressive


Women

1/2 of dreams about men

indoors

friendly

Term
Psychoanalytic
Definition

Froid said "Dreams are the road to contiousness"

 

Dreams are uncontiousness

 

Manifest Content - is ovious

Latent content - Hidden

 

The dream itself is manifest

The interpitation is latent

Term
cognitive
Definition
dreams are the way to shift thgough all the info of teh day. It helps you solve problems
Term

How to get a good night sleep

 

 

 

(might highly be on test)

Definition

eat meat of drink milk which has ceritonam which makes you sleep


don't drink caffeen or smoke close to bed because they are steramin


stay away from large meals before bed


go to bed at the sames time and get up at the same time


can't fall asleep after 20 min. get up and do something relaxing


don't use computes before bed


don't look at clock


exersise but not right before bed

Term
substance abuse
Definition
use has gotten in the way of every day funtion or life
Term
substance dependence (adiction)
Definition

tolerance toward teh drug

 

have to take more to get the same effect

Term
physiological effect
Definition
go to quit but you get ill
Term
Agonists / antagonists
Definition

effects the nueron comunication in the brain


by

  • altering production of neurotransmitter
  • change the amount stored of released by the neuron
  • alter the effect of the neuro transmitter on the recievine neuron
  • block the action of the neuro transmitter (how it's taken back up)
Term
Human Developmet
Definition

Called developmental psychology

 

deals with how people develope over a life span

Term
John Lock
Definition

trobularasa theory where you're born with a clean slate "nothing"

 

Babies come with nothing and have to be nurture and exsperience for babies to get knowledge

 

Babies need to do stuff without interference and learn it

Term
Fevel Child
Definition
wild child
Term
Arnold Gessel
Definition

Maturation

natural unfolding of humans ability with age

Term
Teratogens
Definition

when child is in the womb there's many problems that can happen

 

things outside that causes birth defects of a critical development of the child

Term
Mothers who drink causes
Definition
Term
Mothers who smoke causes
Definition
Term
3 stages of new borns
Definition
Term
New Borns
Definition

sleep alot

just stair at things

can't hear well

really atune to speech

have smell and taste preferences

don't like bad smells

know mothers smeill

unvolentary unlearned actions are called reflexes

Term
Cephalocaudal Rule
Definition
learn to control things from top to bottom
Term
proximodistal rule
Definition
control funtion from inside out
Term
ceperation
Definition
infints internal sence of being apart from mom
Term
Individuation
Definition
development of baby into becoming ones self
Term
Identification
Definition
one wishes to be like someone else
Term
autmory
Definition
the child funtions indavidually
Term
Identity
Definition
sence of self awarness "I am me."
Term
Critical Period
Definition

Time when something has to happen and if it doesn't it's bad


things have to happen


few critical periods for humans


sensitive period - an ideal time for it to happen


Rumanian Babies -  didn't have interaction with people a lot when they where small


emotional development is beg at this time

Term
Harry Harlow
Definition

the harlow exsperiment

 

studied monkies

 

monkies stayed on warm fuzzy dummy not on the wire dummy even when the wire dummy had food

 

human babies want mothers for more than just food it's called attachment

Term
Jan Piaget's Theory and Exsperiment
Definition

studied how children think

 

genetic Episitimologist

branch of philosophy dealing with what we know

 

theory deals with

schema

assimilate accomidates

how babies think

Term
schema
Definition

way to view something

 

Prejudice

the schema is too ridged

 

have to adopt to seroundings

-assimilate = take it in

-accomedate = alter or change schema

Term
Assimilate accomidate periods
Definition
  • sensorimotor    Birth - 2
  • Preoperational   2-6
  • Concrete operational   7-12
  • Foemal operational    12-up

operation - is using logic in your thoughts

Term
Animism
Definition
tendency to give life to inanimate objects
Term
artificialism
Definition
idea that humans have created everything
Term
literal thinking
Definition
taking something for face value think everything is true children do this alot
Term
Egosentriasm
Definition
failure to understand that the world appears differently to others
Term
concreat operational thinking
Definition
what it is exactly
Term
Formal Operational thinking
Definition
think abstractly
Term
Attachment
Definition
emotional bond between a care taker and a new born
Term
John Bowlby
Definition

tested how kids reacted away from mom

 

he's the person who figured out attachment

Term
Mary Ainsworth
Definition

Who tested Bowlby's idea 


figured

children have survival chariteristics to live on


"Stranger situation"

Secure - 60%

avoidant - 20%

ambivalent - 15%

disoorganized - 5%


pg. 423

 

Term
"working model"
Definition
my parents are reliable and will be there for me
Term
wmotional refueling
Definition
can go back to mom and get what they need
Term
Temperament
Definition

the reactive nature of the child

 

kids come into the world with a personality

 

parents can modify the childs behavior

Term
Parent Child Relationship
Definition

moms are the emotional switchboard


dad are guids just like moms


parents treat kids differntly

girls are fragile

boys are tough

Boys- good at spacial relations and good at throwing, more agressive


boys and girls aren't that differnent

Term
How should parents raise thier kids?
Definition

Parents can be demanding or un demanding

Parents can be accepting of rejecting

 

demanding + accepting= authoritative parents

demanding + rejecting = authoritarian parents

Undemanding + accepting = Indulgent parents

Undemanding + rejecting = Neglecting parents

Term
Authogitive parents
Definition

have clear standards but are open to listen to their kids

 

positively asocsiated with child selfasteem, responsible, independence, get self exeptance

Term
Authoritarian parents
Definition

very rigide in the rules and wont exsplain the rules

 

child is not hurd

 

punishing

 

lack social skills, withdrawn, don't have a good contience

 

More abusice house holds

Term
Indulgent parents
Definition

tollerant of child


gives them what they want


gives into childs impusise


child is impulsive, agressive, don't take repondibility


spoild brats


parents pay the kids off

Term
Neglecting
Definition

univolved in kids lives

 

have abuse or asult

 

child is a burden to the family

 

 kids can be exstreemly needy

Term
Adolecents
Definition

girls mature earlier than boys

girls who mature early have less selfasteem

boys who mature early have higher self asteem

both sexes have both hormones

"adolecents" are a new thing

12 - 22/25 years


Early 12-15

Middle 15-18

Later 18-22/25


last part of the brain to develope is the prefrutal cortes

Term

Identity

 

Definition

Early adolecents 12-15 have little

Middle adolecents 15-18 have some but not put together

Late adolecents 18-22/25 have most found out

 

develps extire idenities (clicks)

difficult time being alone

Term
Who loves me?
Definition

Identity - who am I   <-> Intimcay - who loves me

 

20-40 young adult hood

40-69 Middle adult hood

65-85 Later adult hood

85-up OLD

Term
Erikson's stages of Human development
Definition
pg. 436
Term
Intimacy
Definition
getting to tell someone who you are
Term
John Bobie
Definition

farther of attachment

 

Mary Answork tested his theories

Term
James Marcia
Definition

tested the theory of Identity

 

relationships

work

beliask (with politics)

Term
College kids = crisis
Definition

you question and dout something then test it

 

then you find the answer and commit

Term
crisis - commitment
Definition

when you come out of a crisi you come out with a new identity

 

achievement

moratorium

foreclosure

diffusion

Term
Identity achievement
Definition
questioned and unsertainty and you found the answer
Term
Identity Moratorium
Definition
still surching for the answer to the crisis/questions
Term
Identity foreclosure
Definition
chose not to go through a crisis and straight to commitment
Term
identity diffusion
Definition

they didn't have a crisis but didn't commite, don't care and are not woried about it

They are into drugs and drinking they just go with the flow

never grew up

Term

Formal Operational

of

Adolecent Thinking

Definition

These are Piaget's Ideas

 

adult thinking

logical

hypethotical (what if)

abstract

critical

fall in love with thier own ideas

Term
What's happening durring early adolesents 12-15
Definition

pseydo stupidity

what you say is stupid but you are not

false stupidity

blurt out random things


imaginary audience

think people are looking at them

wonders and worries what others think about them


personal fable

think they'e invinsable

thouth they they are special

Term
Lary Kohlbery
Definition

defined what is justice


define justice by how you reason about morality


his chart is a handout

pg 426 / 427

 

most adults are in stages 3 and 4

stage 1/2 -> selfish "I"

stage 3/4 -> do it because it's the law

stage 5/6 -> do it because it's morally right

Term
Morality
Definition

get out of punishment

 

includes Empathy

this was Kohlberg's ideas

 

What is just and what is fair

Term
convention
Definition
typical things people do
Term
Empathy
Definition
ability to feel the feelings of someone as if you have that feeling
Term
sympathy
Definition
you know the pain but you feel the feeling at that time
Term

Moral Thinking

 

Martin Hoffman

Definition

Empathy thinker

4 stages of his thoery

  • Global Empathy (birth) - biologically wired to care and be empathic to others. When kids are sad they shake all over
  • Egocentiric Empathy (2) - doing something that makes them feel good so they five it to the person who feels bad
  • Empathy for another (5-8)- see others have differnt feelings and you feel bad with them (only 1 person)
  • Empathy for another situation (teens)- feel bad for the others this can be for many people
Term
Moral interition
Definition

just know what is right and what is wring

gut feeling

Term
Gilligan
Definition

-says women are different then men

-women have ethics of care

-men have ethics of justice

Term

Sleep disorders

2

Definition

Sleep paralysis

         -waking up unable to move

Night terrors

         -abrupt awakening with panic and intense emotional arousal, occurs in non-REM sleep, can't remember dreams

Nightmares

         -occur durring REM sleep, scary dreams, ushally remembers them

Broxseam

         -teeth grinding

REM behavior disorder

         -you move in your sleep durring REM sleep

sexsomia

        -very contoversal, sleep sex, can be mones to raping others

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