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Consciousness

Our awareness of ourselves and our environment

Biological rhythms

Varying time periods where our bodies and minds fluctuate

Circadian rhythm

Biological clock; regular bodily rhythms that occur on a 24 hour cycle

REM sleep

Rapid eye movement sleep; when we dream; also known as paradoxical sleep, muscles are relaxed but other bodily systems are active

Alpha waves

Relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state

Sleep

Periodic, natural, reversible loss of consciousness, distinct from unconsciousness resulting from a coma, general anesthesia, or hibernation

Hallucinations

False sensory experiences such as seeing something that isn't there

Delta waves

The large slow brain waves associated with deep sleep

Insomnia

Recurring problems in falling or staying asleep

Narcolepsy

A sleep disorder where the person suffers from uncontrollable sleep attacks. May lapse directly into REM sleep at inopportune times

Sleep apnea

When someone suffers from randomly ceasing to breathe while sleeping

Night terrors

A sleep disorder characterized by a high arousal and an appearance of being terrified, unlike nightmares, they occur during stage 4 sleep within 2-3 hours of falling asleep and are seldom remembered

Dream

A sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping persons mind.

Manifest content

According to Freud, the remembered storyline of a dream

Latent content

According to Freud, the underlying meaning of a dream

REM rebound

The tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation

Hypnosis

A social interaction in which one person suggests to another that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur

Posthypnotic amnesia

Supposed inability to recall what one experienced during hypnosis; induced by the hypnotists suggestion

Posthypnotic suggestion

A suggestion made during hypnosis to be carried out after the subject is no longer hypnotized.

Dissociation

A split in consciousness, which allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously with others

Hidden observer

Hilgards term describing a hypnotized subjects awareness of experiences, such as pain, that go unreported during hypnosis

Psychoactive drug

A chemical substance that alters perceptions and mood

Tolerance

The diminishing effect with regular use of the same dose of a drug, requiring the user to take larger and larger doses before experiencing the drugs effect

Withdrawal

The discomfort and distress that follow discontinuing the use of an addictive drug

Physical dependence

A physiological need for a drug, marked by unpleasant withdrawal symptoms when the drug is discontinued

Psychological dependence

A psychological need to use a drug, such as to relieve negative emotions

Depressants

Drugs such as alcohol, barbiturates and opiates that reduce neural activity and slow body functions

Stimulants

Drugs such as caffeine, nicotine, amphetamines, and cocaine that excite neural activity and speed up body functions

Hallucinogens

Psychedelic drugs such as LSD, that distort perceptions and evoke sensory images that aren't really there

Barbiturates

Drugs that depress the activity of the ventral nervous system, reducing anxiety but impairing memory and judgement

Opiates

Opium and it's derivatives, such as morphine and heroin, they depress neural activity, temporarily lessening pain and anxiety

Amphetamines

Drugs that stimulate neural activity, causing sped up body functions and associated energy and mood changes

Ecstasy

Synthetic stimulant and mild hallucinogen. Produces euphoria and social intimacy, but has short term health risks and long term harm to seratonin producing neurons and to mood and cognition

LSD

Powerful hallucinogen drug

THC

Major active ingrediant in weed, triggers a variety of effects, including mild hallucinogens

Near-death experience

An altered state of consciousness reported after a close brush with death such as through cardiac arrest, often similar to drug induced hallucinations

Dualism

The presumption that mind and body are two distinct entities that interact

Monism

The presumption that mind and body are different aspects of the same thing

Preconscious

The memories or feelings that are not part of one's immediate awareness but that can be recalled through conscious effort.


Subconscious

that part of the mind which is on the fringe of consciousness and contains material of which it is possible to become aware by redirecting attention.