PSYC100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4-6: Psychological Dependence, Classical Conditioning, Reinforcement
13 Aug 2016
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Consciousness: our awareness of ourselves and our environment. Levels: waking consciousness, altered state of consciousness, high track, low track. Why: there is no law proven to why we need sleep. But there are ideas like we need sleep to repair and restore, sleep protected our ancestors, strengthens memories, facilitates creative problem solving. Rem sleep: dreams occurred during periods of wild activity and rapid eye movement. Caused by impaired attention and slower reaction time. Dreams include some negative event or emotion. Include images from recent, traumatic, or frequent experiences. Hypnosis is called a heightened suggestibility or trance. Special state of divided consciousness of our dual track mind. You can only do suggested things if you want too. Physical dependence: user"s body craves the drug, user cannot function without the drug, requires more and more of the drug because they develop tolerance, experiences symptoms of withdrawal. Psychological dependence: belief of a user that they need the drug in order to function.
