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Consciousness |
Awareness of everything that is going on around you and inside your own head at any given moment |
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Waking consciousness |
State where thoughts, feelings, and sensations are clear and organized, and they feel awake |
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Altered state of consciousness |
Shift I'm quality or pattern of your mental activity. Thoughts may become fuzzy and disorganized and you may feel less alert, or your thoughts may take bizarre turns, as they often do in dreams. |
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Circadian Rhythm |
Cycle that takes "about a day" to complete. |
Sleep-wake cycle |
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SCN (suprachiasmatic nucleus) |
Structure deep within the hypothalamus that influences release of melatonin. The internal clock telling people when to wake up and fall asleep. |
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Microsleeps |
Brief side steps into sleep lasting only seconds. |
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Sleep deprivation |
Loss of sleep. Disrupts normal Sleep-wake cycle. |
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Adaptive theory of sleep |
Animals and humans evolved different sleep patterns to avoid predators during the predator's normal hunting times, which are generally at night. |
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Restorative theory |
Sleep is necessary to the physical health of the body. Chemical that were used up during the days activities are replenished and cellular damage is repaired. |
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REM(rapid eye movement) |
Active type of sleep where most of a person's dreaming occurs. Voluntary muscles are inhibited. |
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Non-REM sleep |
Much deeper, more restful kind of sleep. The body is free to move. |
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Beta waves |
Very small and very fast waves. A person who is awake and mentally active will show these on a EEG |
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Alpha waves |
As the person relaxes and gets drowsy, these waves will appear. They are slightly larger and slower than beta waves. |
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Theta waves |
Replace alpha waves. Even slower and larger. |
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Delta Waves |
Stages 3 and 4. May last 15 to 30 minutes. |
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REM rebound |
Greatly increased amounts of sleep after being deprived of REM sleep. |
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AIM(activation-information-mode) |
Revised version of the activation-synthesis explanation of dreams in which information that is accessed during waking hours can have am influence on the synthesis of dreams. |
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Social Cognitive Theory of Hypnosis |
People who are hypnotized are not in an altered state but are merely playing the role expected of them in the situation. |
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Psychoactive drugs |
Drugs that alter thinking, perception, memory, or some combination of these abilities. |
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Barbiturates |
major tranquilizers. Drugs that have a strong dependent feeling. |
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Benzodiazepines |
minor tranquilizers. Drugs that have a relatively mild depressant effect. |
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Manifest Content |
the remembered storyline, plot |
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Latent Content |
the underlying meaning, symbolism that is hidden. |
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Ultraradian Rhythms |
occur more than once a day |
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Infradian Rhythms |
Once a month or season, seasonal effective disorder |
Think of bears and hibernation |
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Circadian Rhythms |
24 hour cycle |
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