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Unit 5 States of
Consciousness and Memory
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Essential
Questions:
- What is consciousness?
- Whats going on as we
sleep?
- What role or purpose does
sleep play in our lives? How
does it affect behavior?
- What are dreams?
- Is Hypnosis a real thing
and if so what is it?
- What are psychoactive drugs
actually doing to our consciousness and how do they affect behavior?
- What are memories?
- How do humans encode,
store, and retrieve information in the memory systems?
- How can humans enhance
memory, encoding, storage, and retrieval?
- Are memories stored or
reconstructed?
- How much can a person
remember?
- What are the conditions
under which memories are made more easily or completed versus poorly?
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Objectives:
- Define consciousness.
- Identify the different
states of consciousness.
- Describe the sleep cycle
and its stages.
- Discuss the different
theories of dreams.
- Identify the common sleep
disorder, their causes and consequences.
- Discuss hypnosis, the
different theories and uses of hypnosis.
- Discuss the controversy of
the uses of hypnosis.
- Describe the common
psychoactive drugs and their effects.
- Describe how certain drugs
actually impact the synapse.
- Discuss the nature and
physiology of chemical dependence, addiction, tolerance, and
withdrawal.
- Discuss the different
models for the memory system.
- Analyze how humans encode,
store, and retrieve memories.
- Distinguish between
automatic and effortful processing.
- Compare and contrast the
capacity and duration of sensory, short term (working), and long term
memory.
- Distinguish between
implicit and explicit memory
- Describe the importance of
retrieval cues
- Discuss the effects of
interference and motivated forgetting on retrieval.
- Describe evidence for the
constructive nature of memory.
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Activities,
Readings
and Viewings:
- Read - Myers chapters 7 and
9
- Hypnosis Experience - CD
- Video The Brain: Sleep
and Circadian Rhythms
- Video Discovering
Psychology: hypnosis
- Video The Mind: addiction
- Read Excerpts from The
Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Sack
- Video The Mind: memory
- Memory activity
Experiencing Psychology
- Memory Experiment Project
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Evaluation:
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