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CONSCIOUSNESS AND ITS ALTERED STATES - Coggle Diagram
CONSCIOUSNESS AND ITS ALTERED STATES
Consciousness - state of awareness; perceive our environment; being aware; alert and active
Dreams - extension of everyday experiences; mechanism for debuggingand tuning the networks of cells in the cerebral cortex to avoid information overload; carry personal meanings; represent repressed wishes; special message about what is missing in our lives; take their origin from the unconscious
Symbolization - images in a dream to stand for something else by reason of similarity
Manifest Content - remembered content
Latent Content - idden thought/desire/ conflict that is indirectly expressed
Sleeping - falling near one end of the range of consciousness
Circadian rhythm - Daily cyclical changes in bodily processes
States
Semi-Conscious
Unconscious Processes - mental activities that are more or less permanently unavailable to consciousness
Preconscious Processes - subconscious activities that can be brought into awareness
Unconscious
Highly Conscious
Flowing - awareness drifts from one thought to another
Daydreaming - eriod of focused, directed thinking and feeling about fantasies
Directed - conscious awareness is focused, ordered and one-tracked
Drugs - substance whose chemical action alters the structure or functioning of the body
Terms Related
Psychological dependence - take drugs because of its pleasurable effects
Physical Dependence - unpleasant withdrawal symptoms
Addiction - loses ability to control his drug intake
Tolerance - Body’s adaptation to a person’s repeated use of a drug
Common Psychoactive Drugs
Stimulants - pop people up; give a pleasant "high"
Caffeine - causes headaches; fights or counteracts such depressants and sedatives
Amphetamines - stimulate sympathetic part of the autonomic nervous system; improve one’s ability to concentrate while also reducing the feeling of fatigue
Dexedrine
Methedrine
Benzedrine
Narcotics and Analgesics - kill pain, lessen anxiety, and give a pleasant “high”
Heroine - potent drug derived from morphine
Cocaine - deaden the nerves of the skin senses
Hypnotics and Sedatives - depress the activity of the brain and cause drowsiness and sleep
Alcohol - difficulty with concentration and memory
Barbiturates - sleeping pills
Tranquilizers and Antidepression - prescribed for “ nervous tension” or feelings of anxiety
Hallucinogenic - produced distortions of perceptionsaccompanied by altered feelings and moods
Marijuana - experience a euphoric high
General Purposes
Experimental - psychedelic; different altered states of consciousness
Therapeutic - prescribed to alleviate conditions associated with mental disorders