 Aim: Students will be able to understand altered states of consciousness Homework: 1. Exam on Sensation/Perception and States of Consciousness on Friday 2. Learning unit Cornell notes due next Tuesday, December 8 Do Now: Write down your response and explain why it is the best answer The tendency to group together objects that are the same size, shape, color or form is known as a. closure b. continuation c. similarity d. proximity

Hypnosis  Form of altered consciousness in which people become highly suggestible to changes in behavior and thought  Posthypnotic suggestion: a suggestion made during hypnosis that influences the participant’s behavior afterward  Biofeedback: process of learning to control bodily states with the help of machine monitoring Aim: Students will be able to understand altered states of consciousness

Can you hypnotize yourself?  Stretch your arms in front of you making sure the palms are facing each other at the same height and about two inches apart  Close your eyes. Imagine that your right arm is getting heavier and heavier, while your left arm is getting lighter and lighter  To help yourself, imagine that your right hand is holding a strap wrapped around several heavy books, while your left hand is holding a string tied to a helium balloon Aim: Students will be able to understand altered states of consciousness

 Analysis  After about a minute, open your eyes and see how far your hands have actually moved.  Are they one or two inches apart or several inches apart? Aim: Students will be able to understand altered states of consciousness

Dreams  Occur during REM stage of sleeping  Manifest Content: according to Freud, the remembered story line of a dream (as distinct from its latent or hidden content)  Latent Content: according to Freud, the underlying meaning of a dream (as distinct from its manifest content) Aim: Students will be able to understand altered states of consciousness

Theories of Dreams  Wish-fulfillment theory: proposed by Freud, psychic safety valve  Information Processing Theory: dreams help sift, sort and fix the day’s experience in our memory  Physiological need: provides the sleeping brain with periodic stimulation  Neural Activation: brains attempt to make sense of random neural activity  Cognitive Development: content reflects dreamers’ cognitive development Aim: Students will be able to understand altered states of consciousness

Psychoactive Drugs  Depressants: calm neural activity and slow body functions  Alcohol  Barbiturates  Opiates  Stimulants: excites neural activity and speeds up body functions  Caffeine  Amphetamines  Nicotine:  Cocaine:  Methamphetamine  Ecstasy  Hallucinogens  LSD  Marijuana Aim: Students will be able to understand altered states of consciousness

Socrative  You will be assigned a color  Make sure that your assigned color becomes your team name  Read and answer all questions carefully (they are all practice AP questions) Aim: Students will be able to understand altered states of consciousness