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40 Cards in this Set
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Consciousness
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An awareness of the sensations, thoughts, and feelings that one is attending to at a given moment
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Attension
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A state of awareness consisting of the sensations thoughts , and feelings, that one is focused on at a given moment
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Cocktail party phenomenon
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The ability to attend selectively to one person's speech in the midst of competeing conversations
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Selective attention
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The ablility to focus awareness on a signle stimulus, as in the cocktail party phenomenon
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Divided attention
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The ability to distribute one's attention and simultaneously engage in two or more activities
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Stroop Test
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A color-naming task that demonstrates the automatic nature of highly practiced activities such as reading
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Subliminal messages
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A stimulus that is presented below the threshold for awareness
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Priming
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The tendency for a recently presented word or concept to facilitate, or "prime" responses in a subsequent situation.
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Propagnosia
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A condition stemming from damage to the temporal lobes that disrupts the ability to recognize familiar faces
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Blindsight
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A condition caused by damage to the visual cortex in which a person encodes visual information without awareness
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Biological Rhythm
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Any periodic, more or less regular fluctuation in a biological organism
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Circadian Rhythm
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A biological cycle, such as sleeping and waking, that occurs approximately every 24-hours.
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Microsleep
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A brief episode of sleep that occurs in the midst of a wakeful activity
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Presleep, alert
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Beta waves
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Presleep, relaxed
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Alpha waves
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Non-REM, stage one
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Theta waves
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Non-REM, stage two
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Spindle waves
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Non-Rem, Stage four
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Delta waves
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REM
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The rapid eye movement stage of sleep associated with dreaming
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Lucid Dreaming
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A semiconscious dream state in which a sleeper is aware taht he or she is dreaming
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Manifest content
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Freud, the content of a dream that is remembered in the morning
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Latent content
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Freud, the unconscious meaning of a dream
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Activation-synthesis theory
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The theory that dreams result from the brain's attempt to make sense of random neural signals that fire during sleep
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Insomnia
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The inability to fall asleep, stay asleep, or get the amount of sleep needed to function during the day.
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Narcolepsy
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A sleep disorder characterized by irresistable and sudden attacks of REM sleep during the day.
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Sleep apnea
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A disorder in which a person repeatedly stops breathing during sleep and awakends gasping for air.
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REM Sleep behavior disorder (RBD)
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A condition in which the skeletal muscles are not paralyzed during REM sleep, enabling a sleeper to act on his or her nightmares, often violently.
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Hypnosis
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Attention-focusing procedures in which changes in a person's behavior or mental state are suggested
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Hynotic Susceptibility
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The extent to which an individual is characteristically responsive to hypnosis
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Post-hypnotic Suggestion
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A suggestion made to a subjecct in hypnosis to be carried out after the induction session is over
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Post hypnotic amnesia
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A reported tendency for hypnosis subjects to forget events that occurred during the induction
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Hyperamnesia
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A term referring to the unsubstantiated claim that hypnosis can be used to facilitate the retieval of past memories.
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dissociation
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A division of consciousness that permits one part of the mind to operate independently of another part
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psychoactive drug
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A chemical taht alters perceptions, thoughts, moods, or behaviors
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Physical dependence
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A physiological addiction in which a drug is needed to prevent symptoms of withdrawl
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psychological dependence
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A condition in which drugs are needed to maintain a sense of well-being or relief from negative emotions
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Sedatives
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A class of depressant drugs that slow down activity in the CNS
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Stimulants
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A class of drugs that excite the CNS and energize behavior
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Hallucinogens
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Psychedelic drugs that distort perceptions and cause hallucinations
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Opiates
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A class of highly addictive drugs taht depress neural activity and provide temporary relief from pain and anxiety
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