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14 Cards in this Set
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Consciousness
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Our awareness of ourselves and the environment
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Biological Rhythms
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Periodic physiological fluctuations
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Circadian
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the biological clock, regular bodily rhythms that occur on a 24 hour cycle
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REM sleep
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Rapid eye movement sleep, a recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur. Also known as paradoxical sleep, because the muscles are relaxed(except for minor twitches) but other body systems are active
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Alpha waves
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the relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state
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Sleep
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Periodic, natural, reversible loss of consciousness-as distinct from unconsciousness resulting from a coma, general anesthesia, or hibernation
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hallucinations
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false sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus
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delta waves
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the large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep
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Narcolepsy
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A sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks
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Sleep apnea
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A sleep disorder characterized by temporary cessations of breathing during sleep and repeated momentary awakenings
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Night Terrors
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A sleep disorder characterized by high arousal and an appearance of being terrified. Unlike nightmares, night terrors occur during stage 4 sleep, within two or three hours of falling asleep, and are seldom remembered.
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dream
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a sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping person's mind. Dreams are noticeable for their hallucinatory imagery, discontinuities, and for the dreamer's delusional acceptance of the content and later difficulties remembering it.
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Manifest Content
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according to freud, the remembered story line of a dream
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Latent Content
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According to freud, the underlying meaning of a dream
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