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Chapter 6
Chapter 6: States of
Consciousness
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Some Early Definitions
• Consciousness: All the sensations,
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perceptions, memories, and feelings you are
aware of in any instant
– Waking Consciousness: Normal, clear,
organized, alertness
Altered State of Consciousness (ASC):
Changes that occur in quality and pattern of
mental activity
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Sleep
• Innate, biological rhythm
• Microsleep: Brief shift in brain-wave patterns
similar to those during sleep
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Figure 6.4
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Sleep Problems
• Sleep Deprivation: Sleep loss; being deprived
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of needed amounts of sleep
Sleep-Deprivation Psychosis: Confusion,
disorientation, delusions, and hallucinations
that occur because of sleep loss
Sleep Patterns: Daily rhythms of sleep and
waking
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Rhythms
• Circadian Rhythms: Bodily changes that
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occur every 24 hours
Biological Rhythm: Any repeating cycle of
biological activity
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Jet Lag
• Disturbed body rhythms caused by rapid
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travel east or west
Major time shifts (5 hours or more) can cause
very slow adaptation
Direction of travel affects adaptation, and
thus, severity of jet lag
– MUCH easier to go from east to west, than
west to east
Preadaptation: Gradual matching of sleepwaking cycles to a new time schedule
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Measuring Sleep Changes
• Electroencephalograph (EEG): Brain-wave
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machine; amplifies and records electrical
activity in the brain
Beta Waves: Small fast waves associated
with being alert and awake
Alpha Waves: Large, slow brainwaves
associated with relaxation and falling asleep
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Stage 1 Sleep
• Small, irregular waves produced in light sleep
(people may or may not say they were
asleep)
– Hypnic Jerk: Reflex muscle contraction
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Stages of Sleep, Part 1
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Stage 2 Sleep
• Deeper sleep; sleep spindles (bursts of
distinctive brain-wave activity) appear
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Stages of Sleep, Part 2
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Stage 3 Sleep
• Deeper sleep; Delta waves appear; very large
and slow
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Stages of Sleep, Part 3
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Stage 4 Sleep
• Deepest level of normal sleep; almost purely
Delta waves
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Stages of Sleep, Part 4
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Figure 6.3
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Two Basic Kinds of Sleep
• Rapid Eye Movements (REM): Associated
with dreaming; sleep is very light
– Body is very still during REM sleep
– Lack of muscle paralysis during REM sleep
is called REM Behavioral Disorder
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Stages of Sleep, Part 5
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Non-REM (NREM) Sleep
• Occurs during stages 1, 2, 3, and 4; no rapid
eye movement occurs
– Seems to help us recover from daily
fatigue
– EEG patterns return to Stage 1
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Stages of Sleep, Part 6
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Figure 6.8
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Some Sleep Disturbances
• Insomnia: Difficulty in getting to sleep or
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staying asleep
– Sleeping pills exacerbate insomnia; cause
decrease in REM and Stage 4 sleep and
may cause dependency
Drug-Dependency Insomnia: Sleeplessness
that follows withdrawal from sleeping pills
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Types and Causes of Insomnia
• Temporary Insomnia: Brief period of
sleeplessness caused by worry, stress, and
excitement
– Avoid fighting it and read a book, for
example, until you’re struggling to stay
awake
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Some More Sleep Concerns
• Chronic Insomnia: Exists if sleeping troubles
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last for more than three weeks
– Adopt regular schedule; go to bed at the
same time each night, for example
Tryptophan: Amino acid (chemical) that
produces sleep
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Sleep Disturbances
• Sleepwalking (Somnambulism): Occurs in
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NREM sleep during Stages 3 and 4
Sleeptalking: Speaking while asleep; occurs
in NREM sleep
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Some Other Sleep Disturbances
• Nightmares: Bad dreams that occur during
REM sleep
– May occur once or twice a month; brief and
easily remembered
– Imagery Rehearsal: Mentally rehearse the
changed dream before you go to sleep
again; may help to eliminate nightmares
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Night Terrors
• Night Terrors: Total panic and often
hallucinations of frightening dream images
may occur
– Occurs during Stage 4 sleep
– Most common in childhood; may occur in
adults
– Not remembered
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Physiological Sleep Problems
• Sleep Apnea: Repeated interrupted breathing
during sleep; cause of very loud snoring
– Hypersomnia: Extreme daytime sleepiness
– Apnea can be treated by
• Surgery
• Weight loss
• Breathing mask
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Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
• Sudden, unexplained death of an apparently
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healthy infant (infants should sleep on back
or on side to try to prevent)
Also known as Crib Death
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Dreams
• Psychodynamic (Freudian) Theory:
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Emphasizes internal conflicts, motives, and
unconscious forces
Wish Fulfillment: Freudian belief that many
dreams are expressions of unconscious
desires
– Much evidence to refute this
Dream Symbols: Images that have a deeper
symbolic meaning
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Activation-Synthesis Hypothesis
• Dream content may be affected by motor
commands in the brain during sleep that are
not carried out
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Hypnosis
• Altered state of consciousness characterized
by intensely narrowed attention and
increased openness to suggestion
– Mesmer: Believed he could cure diseases
by passing magnets over body; true
“animal magnetism” (“mesmerize” means
to hypnotize)
– Must cooperate to become hypnotized
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Hypnotic Susceptibility
• How easily a person can be hypnotized
• Basic Suggestion Effect: Tendency of
hypnotized people to carry out suggested
actions as though they were involuntary
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Table 6.2
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Hypnosis Can
• Help people relax
• Reduce pain
• Get people to make better progress in
therapy
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Hypnosis Cannot
• Produce acts of superhuman strength
• Produce age regression
• Force you to do things against your will
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Stage Hypnosis
• Simulation of hypnotic effects, done to
entertain
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Tricks of the Hypnosis Trade
• Waking Suggestibility: People on stage do not
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want to spoil the act, so they will follow any
instruction
Selection of Responsive Subjects: Any
“volunteer” who does not get hypnotized in the
stage group and does not follow instructions is
removed
The Hypnosis Label Disinhibits: On stage, once
you are “in a hypnotic trance,” your
responsibility for actions is removed; you can
do whatever you want!
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More Stage Hypnosis “Tricks of the Trade”
• Hypnotist as Director: Once they are in a
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trance, the “volunteers” are suddenly the
show’s stars, and they will act like it; the
hypnotist only needs to direct them
Stage Hypnotists Use Tricks: Stage hypnosis
is 50% deception and 50% taking advantage
of the situation
Conclusion: Stage hypnotists entertain; they
rarely hypnotize
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Meditation
• Mental exercise designed to focus attention
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and interrupt flow of thoughts, worries, and
analyses
Concentrative Meditation: Attention is paid to
a single focal point (i.e., object, thought, etc.)
– Produces relaxation response and thus
works to reduce stress
Receptive Meditation: Based on widening
attention span to become aware of everything
experienced at a given moment
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More on Meditation
• Mantra: Word(s) or sound(s) repeated silently
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during concentrative meditation
Relaxation Response: Occurs at time of
relaxation; innate physiological pattern that
opposes body’s fight or flight responses
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Sensory Deprivation (SD)
• Any major reduction in amount or variety of
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sensory stimulation
Benefits
– Sensory enhancement
– Relaxation
– Changing habits
– Benefits called REST: Restricted
Environmental Stimulation Therapy
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Figure 6.12
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Mindfulness
• Open, nonjudgmental awareness of current
experience
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Drugs and Altered States of Consciousness
• Psychoactive Drug: Substance capable of
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altering attention, judgment, memory, time
sense, self-control, emotion, or perception
Stimulant: Substance that increases activity in
body and nervous system
Depressant: Substance that decreases
activity in body and nervous system
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Dependence
• Physical Dependence: Addiction based on
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drug tolerance and withdrawal symptoms
– Drug Tolerance: Reduction in body’s
response to a drug
– Withdrawal Symptoms: Physical illness
following withdrawal of the drug
Psychological Dependence: Drug
dependence based on psychological or
emotional needs
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Figure 6.13
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Stimulants
• Amphetamine: Synthetic stimulants that
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excite nervous system
– Dexedrine and Methamphetamine are two
types of stimulants
Amphetamine Psychosis: Loss of contact with
reality because of amphetamine use; user
tends to have paranoid delusions
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Interaction of Dopamine and Amphetamines
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Cocaine
• Central Nervous System stimulant derived
from leaves of coca plant; also used as local
anesthetic
– From 1886-1906, Coca-Cola did indeed
have cocaine in it!
– Highly addictive drug
– Anhedonia (Inability to Feel Pleasure):
Common after cocaine withdrawal
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Interaction of Dopamine and Cocaine
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MDMA (Ecstasy)
• Chemically similar to amphetamine; created
by small variations in a drug’s structure
– May cause severe liver damage and fatal
heat exhaustion
– Repeated use damages serotonergic brain
cells
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Caffeine
• Most frequently used psychoactive drug in
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North America; present in colas, chocolate,
coffee, tea
Causes tremors, sweating, talkativeness,
tinnitus, suppresses fatigue or sleepiness,
increases alertness
– May be hazardous to pregnant women if
used excessively; may cause birth defects
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Caffeinism
• Physiological dependence on caffeine
– Symptoms include: Insomnia, irritability,
loss of appetite, chills, racing heart,
elevated body temperature
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Nicotine
• Natural stimulant found mainly in tobacco;
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known carcinogen
In large doses it causes stomach pain,
vomiting, diarrhea, confusion, tremors
Addictive
Smoking responsible for 97% of lung cancer
deaths in men, 74% in women
Sum: DON’T SMOKE; SMOKING KILLS (SO
DOES CHEWING TOBACCO)
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Understanding Addiction
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Sedatives
• Barbiturates: Sedative drugs that depress
brain activity
– Seconal and Amytal are two types
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Interaction of GABA and Barbiturates
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GHB
• GHB (Gamma-Hydroxybutyrate): Central
Nervous System (CNS) depressant that
relaxes and sedates; combination of
degreasing solvent and drain cleaner
– Sedative effects may result in nausea, loss
of muscle control, and either sleep or a
loss of consciousness
– Inhibits gag reflex, so some choke to death
on their own vomit
– Addictive and deadly
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Tranquilizers
• Tranquilizers: Lower anxiety and reduce
tension
– Valium, Xanax, Halcion, and Librium are
four types
– Rohypnol: Related to Valium; lowers
inhibitions and produces relaxation or
intoxication; larger doses can induce shortterm amnesia and sleep
• Date rape drug because it’s odorless
and tasteless (“Roofies”)
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Drug Interaction
• One drug increases the effect of another
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Alcohol
• Ethyl Alcohol: Intoxicating element in
fermented and distilled liquors
– NOT a stimulant but DOES lower
inhibitions
– Depressant
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Binge Drinking
• Consuming five or more drinks in a short
time, or four or more for women
– Serious sign of alcohol abuse
– May lead to up to 10 percent loss of brain
power, especially memory
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How a Drinking Problem may Develop
(Jellinek, 1960)
• Initial Phase: Social drinker turns to alcohol to
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relieve tension or feel good
Crucial Phase: Person begins to lose control
over drinking
Chronic Phase: Person is now alcohol
dependent
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Treatment for Alcohol Abuse and Dependence
• Detoxification: Withdrawal of the person from
alcohol; occurs in a medical setting and is
tightly controlled; oftentimes necessary
before long-term treatment begins
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Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
• Worldwide self-help organization composed
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of recovering alcoholics; emphasizes
admitting powerlessness over alcohol usage
and wanting to recover
– Spiritual component
– Free; around for over 70 years!
Rational Recovery, and Secular
Organizations for Sobriety (SOS): Nonspiritual AA Alternatives
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Table 6.3a
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Table 6.3b
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Some Hallucinogens
• Hallucinogen: Substance that alters or
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distorts sensory impressions
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD):
Hallucinogen that can produce hallucinations
and psychotic disturbances in thinking and
perception
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Some More Hallucinogens
• Mescaline (Peyote) and Psilocybin (Magic
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Mushrooms)
PCP (Angel Dust): Initially can have
hallucinogenic effects; also an anesthetic and
has stimulant and depressant effects
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Marijuana (Pot)
• Cannabis Sativa (Marijuana; Pot): Leaves
and flowers of the hemp plant
– Active chemical: THC
– Effects: Relaxation, time distortion,
perceptual distortions
– Psychologically, NOT physiologically,
addictive
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Some Health Risks of Using Marijuana
• Can cause precancerous changes in lung
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cells
Can suppress immune system, increasing
risk of disease
Activity levels in the cerebellum are lower
than normal in pot users
Pot may damage some of the brain’s memory
centers
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Dream Interpretation
• Freud: Four dream processes (mental filters)
that hide true meanings of dreams
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Condensation
• Combining several people, objects, or events
into a single dream image
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Displacement
• Directing emotions or actions toward safe or
unimportant dream images
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Symbolization
• Non-literal expression of dream content
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Secondary Elaboration
• Making a dream more logical and adding
details while remembering it
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Perls’ Views on Dreams
• Most dreams are a special message about
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what is missing in our lives, what we avoid
doing when awake, or feelings that we need
to re-own
Dreams fill in gaps in our personal experience
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Lucid Dreaming
• Person feels fully awake within the dream
and feels capable of normal thought and
action