Psychology Assignment

Intro to Psychology

Jacee Ahnemann

Final Assignment Introduction to Psychology has been a very beneficial for me. I learned a lot about myself and others and the way we think and behave. The chapters I chose were chapters: 4, 8, 10, 12, and 13. I found them the most interesting of all the chapters.

Chapter 4 discusses the several states of consciousness. Consciousness is the recognition, or awareness, of an individual’s experiences and thoughts. The mind has been described as a stream of consciousness. The prefrontal lobe plays a very important role in consciousness along with the association areas. There are different levels of consciousness that include: Higher level, lower level, altered states, subconsciousness, and no awareness. An

Different disorders occur in different stages of sleep. The most common forms of sleeping disorders include: nightmares, night terrors, sleep apnea, sleep walking, sleep talking, narcolepsy, and insomnia. Insomnia is a disorder where the person struggles falling asleep and staying asleep, if they fall asleep at all. Women and depressed individuals are more likely to develop insomnia. Sleepwalking and sleep talking occur in the deepest stages of sleep. Night terrors and nightmares usually take place in REM(rapid eye movement) stage, but night terrors are worse than nightmares. In night terrors the individual is woken suddenly and they are overwhelmed by a surge of intense fear. Narcolepsy is a disorder where the individual randomly falls asleep at any time, even while having a conversation or driving a car. The cognitive theory of dreaming says that we can better understand our dreams if we use those same concepts while we are awake. Dreaming is a very important part of sleeping and should be recognized

However, there are different variations to the individual’s vulnerability during hypnosis because they are still unlikely to do anything that puts them in danger or breaks their moral values. With different EEG recordings, hypnosis is proven different from sleep. Hypnosis has four main steps, the first step is minimizing distractions, second is to tell the person to concentrate, third is informing the person of what to expect, and the fourth one is suggesting certain events or feelings. According to Hilgard’s divided state of consciousness, the consciousness split into separate parts, one follows the command and the other part watches and makes sure no danger occurs to the individual or their morals. Hypnosis can be used for a wide variety of things going from comic to medical. For example my brother was hypnotised into thinking he was a stripper, I saw the video, I wasn’t very impressed, but then some people trust it enough in using it for surgery instead of anesthesia. I would never trust the hypnosis, I have had surgery before and would not want to wake up in that