1. Consciousness and self-consciousness

2. Consciousness
Sensation and Perception examined the effects of sensory input and how it is interpreted. Consciousness examines how we process and define our world.

3. Suggested supplemental material:
Internet Listening:
Radio Lab (
Season One: “Who Am I?”
Season Two: “Where Am I?”
Season Three: “Sleep”
Learning Objectives:
States of Consciousness (sleep)
Hypnosis (fantasy prone personality)
Altering Consciousness

4. Meanings of consciousness
Sensory awareness
Select aspect of attention
Direct inner awareness Freud:
Preconscious, Unconscious, Nonconscious
Personal Unity
Waking State

5. Sleep & Dreams Tool: EEG Measure: Brain Waves States:
Awake, (beta waves)
Relaxed, (alpha waves)
Sleeping (theta, delta)

6. 5 Stages of Sleep Stages 1 - 4 (NREM)
Stage 1: theta waves, Hypnagogic state
Stage 2: brain spindles
Stage 3: delta waves
Stage 4: Deepest Stage
sleep terror, bedwetting, sleepwalking

7. 5 Stages of Sleep Stage 5 (REM) “Paradoxical Sleep” Nightmares
Sleep paralysis
An explanation of Alien Abduction claims (solved!)

8. SLEEP: miscellaneous Function: Why do we sleep? Freud:
dream interpretation
Activation-Synthesis Model
Sleep Disorders

9. Hypnosis Franz Anton Mesmer Hypnosis terms “Mesmerism”
“Animal Magnetism”
Hypnosis
Hypnosis terms

10. Theories of Hypnosis Role Theory Response Set Theory
Focus on hypnotic suggestions
Not Faking
Response Set Theory
Expectancies
Neodissociation Theory
Imagination as distraction

11. Role of Fantasy Fantasy Prone Personality Normal: future situations
Spend much time, vivid
Normal: future situations
planning, decision making
Sexual fantasies are normal
Males: higher frequency
Deviant: sex & aggression
Males: emotionally unstable, socially alienated

12. Theories of Hypnosis Franz Anton Mesmer Role Theory (Not Faking)
“Mesmerism” “Animal Magnetism” Hypnosis
Hypnosis terms
Role Theory (Not Faking)
Focus on hypnotic suggestions
Response Set Theory
Expectancies
Neodissociation Theory (E. Hildegard)
Imagination as distraction

13. CONSCIOUSNESS Meditation Biofeedback
Act/process of thinking vs. ritual exercises
Spiritual, philosophical
Valuable for relaxation, lower BP
Biofeedback
Obtain environmental info
Develop control
Employ it when needed

14. Altering Consciousness Through Drugs
Depressants
Alcohol (Wernicke-Korsakoff)
Opiates
Barbiturates

15. Altering Consciousness Through Drugs
Stimulants:
Amphetamines
Nicotine
Cocaine

16. Altering Consciousness Through Drugs
Hallucinogenics
Marijuana
mild hallucinogen
Lysergic Acid Dithalimide
“LSD”
Synthetic ergot