Consciousness Chapter 5

Chapter 5 work1.Track your dreams for interpretation

2.Keep a record of the number of hours you and other members of your family sleep each night for next 4 nights. We will compare the data in class.

3. DO each Section of chapter 51 page106 1-32 page 112 1-33 page116 1-34 page 121 1-2

•Graphic Organizer and Review handouts

5. Chapter 5 review Page 122-123 Terms and concepts review 1-10

Critical Thinking 1-5

Section 1

Consciousness: Awareness of things inside and outside of ourselves

Awareness 3 types

1. Sensory• aware of your environment through sight,

taste, smell, hearing

Are U Always aware of your environment?

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2. Direct inner awareness• Being aware of things inside of yourself• Thinking abstract concepts, memories

ex: feeling angry, love, fairness, ( no hearing, touching or smelling involved)

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3. Sense of self (each person experiences)• Aware of ourselves and our existence• A child does not use his name until he

realizes I am an Unique individual separate from other people

3 Levels of Consciousness

Preconscious level

• What you can recall if you had to

Unconscious level (subconscious)

• is unavailable to awareness• Information is hidden• Allowing things to interfere with your plans

Non-conscious level

• Biological functions– Blinking of your eyes– Breathing– Nails and hair growing– Pupils adjusting to light

Section 2Sleep and Dreams

Freud’s theory on Dreams

• Certain memories are painful or considered unacceptable.

• We develop defense mechanisms to push things from our conscious mind into our unconscious mind

Altered states of consciousness

• In which a person’s sense of self or sense of the world changes

• Sleeping• Under the influences of drugs• Meditation• Biofeedback• Hypnosis

SLEEPING

UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF DRUGS

MEDIATION

BIOFEEDBACK

Hypnosis

Sleep and Dreams

• Circadian Rhythms–Biological clocks• Body temperature, blood pressure and

sleepiness and wakefulness during a 24 hour period

Sleep

• Defined in terms of brains wave patterns which can be measured by a EEG (electroencephalograp)

Stages of sleep

1. Lightest sleep- Brief dream like images that resemble vivid photographs 30-40 minutes

2. Starting deeper sleep3. Deep sleep stage-- slow brain waves4. Deepest sleep stage-- hardest to wake up in5. REM (rapid eye movement sleep)

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• The first 4 stages are known as NREM --non rapid eye movement or

• Most people go through these stages 5 X during the night

• Periods of REM become longer each time• Morning REM may last as long as 30 minutes

Why do we sleep?

• Revive the tired body• Build up resistance to infection• Brain development in babies and young

children• Exercise the brain in babies• Release growth hormone

• No sleep– irritable, memory lapses,

and speech difficulties

• REM rebound from no sleep– learn slower, forget more

rapidly

• Can you catch up on your sleep?

DREAMS

• During REM most vivid• Black and white and Color• Every time we sleep we dream• People dream in real time

Sleep Problems

• Insomnia– the inability to sleep

• Nightmares– common for most

people• Night Terrors– same as nightmares but

much more sever– Children have them

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• Sleep walking– usually out grow this with age

• Sleep Apnea– breathing is interrupted (linked to SIDS)

• Narcolepsy– rare sleep problem– Suddenly falling a sleep– No known cause

Meditation, Biofeedback and HypnosisSection 3

Meditationa method to narrow their consciousness

• the stresses of the outside world fade away

Biofeedback

• A system that provides or feeds back information about something happening in the body.

• Used to relax, slow the heart, lower blood pressure, and release muscle tension.

Hypnosis

• Is an altered state of consciousness during which people respond to suggestions and behave as though they are in a trance.

• Can you be hypnotized?

Section 4

Side effects of drugs

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROlUB99IJRs

Drugs and consciousness

• Addiction– Distorts people’s perceptions– change their moods– see or hear things that are not there

• Depressants– Alcohol--------Intoxication– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMs7-MQb5as&NR=1

• Narcotics– Addictive, depressant – reduce pain – induce sleep– TYPES• Morphine• Heroin• codeine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBWcRMonvWA

Raise blood pressure, increase heart rate, distorts brain activity “hallucination and delusions”

–Nicotine–Amphetamines–Cocaine

Hallucinogens–Marijuana, LSD,

flashbacks

Treatment for drug abuse

• Detoxification – the removal of the harmful substance from the

body

• Maintenance programs– Counseling – support groups---AA

Dream Away

The end!!