If I am in a room of 100 people who are all talking, but am focused on the conversation I'm having with my friend, this is known as

We often tend to focus on things that are sudden changes in our environment, unusual stimuli or intense stimuli like bright colors or sharp pain

You can imagine the feeling of jumping into a cold lake on a hot summer day but you do not actually feel it.

Freud believe there were 3 levels of consciousness- Conscious, Pre conscious and

Things not in your awareness now, but can be recalled later

Referred to as the subconscious- fears, violent motives, unacceptable desires are here

Sleep is an example of an altered state of consciousness

The deepest sleep occurs in Stage 4.

If you sleep 8 hours, you go through the stages of sleep 1 time

All of the following are results of not getting enough sleep

Dreams are most vivid during REM sleep

A sleep disorder in which you cannot sleep.

A sleep disorder in which you stop breathing and won't start again until you wake up gasping for air usually

A sleep disorder in which there is bed wetting

As you sleep, the waves (electrical impulses) slow down.

You enter REM sleep about 30 minutes into Stage ....