Would anyone be able to give me a list of Psychological and Physiological effects of ASC's and sleep deprivation (also is sleep deprivation an ASC)? Because the only one I can think of is time distortions (psychological), impaired memory (psychological but not sure whether it just to ASC's or sleep deprivation), and slowed down movement (physiological).
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I'm pretty sure sleep deprivation is an ASC,
The psychological indicators of ASCs are:
-changes to levels of awareness
-changes to the ability to perform controlledand automatic processes
-changes to content limitations
-cognitive distortions
-perceptual distortions
-changes to emotional awareness
-changes to self control
-changes to the perception of time orrientation
the reason I say 'changes', is because you are required to contrast an ASC to NWC with reference to these psychological indicators. I'm not really sure if i'm interpreting your question correctly, but this is how you would apply these factors to sleep deprivation:
- Levels of awareness: Awareness is the extent to which a person is conscious of their internal and external enviornment, in comparison to NWC, Sleep deprivation is likely to result in lower levels of awareness, whereby people are less conscious of the internal and external enviornment in this state.
-controlled and automatic processes: During NWC, a person is capable of performing controlled processes which require selective attention and the ability to direct awareness towards one action and ignore other stimuli, additionally, in NWC a person is also capable of performing automatic processes which do not require high levels of mental effort, it is possible to therefore divide attention for these by simultaneously directing awareness to multiple stimuli. In a sleep deprived state, a person is less able to perform both types of processes, however, performance on autmatic processes declines to a greater extent to performance on controlled processes. Because sleep deprived individuals have lower levels of awareness they cannot moderate their attention by selecting or dividing their attention, this difference is indicative that this state is an ASC.
-content limitations: NWC is characterised by high content limitations, whereby thoughts are more controlled and restricted to reality. However, it sleep deprivation likely results in fewer content limitations, due to the low levels of awareness that characterize this state, sleep deprived individuals have less control over their thoughts, and it is likey that the content of their consciousness is unsequential or random in comparison to NWC
- cogntive distortions: NWC is characterised by logical, clear organised cognitive abilities, whereas studies indicate that sleep deprivation is likely to have a negative effect on cognitive ability whereby sleep deprived individuals experience a reduction in problem solving ability, sustained attention, language comprehension and working memory. These differences to NWC are indicative that this state is an ASC.
-perceptual distortions: NWC consciousness is characterised by acurate perceptions, however sleep deprivation is likely to result in perceptual distortions, whereby one's sensory threshold may increase or decrease and their perceptions of external stimuli may be inacurate to reality. For example they may perceive the prick of a needle as more or less painful than they would in NWC.
-emotional awarenss: NWC is characterised by appropriate regulation, display and perception of emotions.However sleep deprivation is likely to result in an increase in negative moods, irritability, mood swings, and amplified affective responses.
-self control: In NWC a person is in control of their volountary movements and decisions. This decreases in a sleep deprived state, where an individual may experience behavioral effects such as difficulty walking in a straight line, increase in microsleeps and clumsiness. Additionally they may engage in risk taking behaviour.
-time orrientation: Time may be perceived as moving faster or slower in a sleep deprived state, whereby perception of the passage of time is disorriented in comparison to a sleep deprived state.
I guess for physiological indicators the main one would be brain waves (and talking about changes to the amplitude and frequency of a wave relative to NWC)