PS264 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Lucid Dream, Autonomic Nervous System, Sleep Deprivation
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Determine intensity of response: stimuli, collative variables, stimuli characteristics that include. Can heighten arousal: tasks, activity in order to attain incentive. Chapter 5: arousal, characterizes the individual more or less independently of the situation, characterization across situations, continuous state. How on approaches: state arousal apprehension, transitory emotional response involving feelings of tension and, arises out of the individuals interaction with the environment, 2 types. Sensory overload: over stimulation, complex environment. Cognitive dissonance: when two pieces of info are contradictory, narrow attention. Chapter 6: biological rhythms, periodic fluctuation in a bio system, endogenous biological rhythms, when arousal becomes very high our attention is directed toward the location and identification of things in the environment that might threaten our survival. Every 24 hours: circadian rhythms, infradian, ultradians. Chapter 7: drug addiction, uncontrollable craving controversial, generally depends upon a physiological need created by the lack of drug.
