PSYC 2000 Chapter : Chapter Four
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Chapter four: consciousness sleep, dreams, hypnosis: consciousness is a person"s awareness of everything that is going on and drugs. 4. 1 what does it mean to be conscious, and are there different levels of consciousness? at any given moment. Most waking hours are spent in waking consciousness: altered states of consciousness are shifts in the quality or pattern of mental activity. It is accompanied by paralysis of the voluntary muscles but rapid movement of the eyes. 4. 5 why do people dream, and what do they dream about: manifest content of a dream is the actual dream and its events. This is called the social- cognitive theory of hypnosis. When deprived of the drug, the user will go through physical withdrawal. level of the drug. After a time, the user must take more and more of the drug to get the same effect.
