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Consciousness |
Our awareness of ourselves and our environment |
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Biological rhythms |
Varying time periods where our bodies and minds fluctuate |
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Circadian rhythm |
Biological clock; regular bodily rhythms that occur on a 24 hour cycle |
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REM sleep |
Rapid eye movement sleep; when we dream; also known as paradoxical sleep, muscles are relaxed but other bodily systems are active |
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Alpha waves |
Relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state |
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Sleep |
Periodic, natural, reversible loss of consciousness, distinct from unconsciousness resulting from a coma, general anesthesia, or hibernation |
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Hallucinations |
False sensory experiences such as seeing something that isn't there |
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Delta waves |
The large slow brain waves associated with deep sleep |
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Insomnia |
Recurring problems in falling or staying asleep |
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Narcolepsy |
A sleep disorder where the person suffers from uncontrollable sleep attacks. May lapse directly into REM sleep at inopportune times |
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Sleep apnea |
When someone suffers from randomly ceasing to breathe while sleeping |
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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 |
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Dream |
A sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping persons mind. |
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Manifest content |
According to Freud, the remembered storyline of a dream |
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Latent content |
According to Freud, the underlying meaning of a dream |
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REM rebound |
The tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation |
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Hypnosis |
A social interaction in which one person suggests to another that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur |
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Posthypnotic amnesia |
Supposed inability to recall what one experienced during hypnosis; induced by the hypnotists suggestion |
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Posthypnotic suggestion |
A suggestion made during hypnosis to be carried out after the subject is no longer hypnotized. |
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Dissociation |
A split in consciousness, which allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously with others |
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Hidden observer |
Hilgards term describing a hypnotized subjects awareness of experiences, such as pain, that go unreported during hypnosis |
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Psychoactive drug |
A chemical substance that alters perceptions and mood |
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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 |
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Withdrawal |
The discomfort and distress that follow discontinuing the use of an addictive drug |
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Physical dependence |
A physiological need for a drug, marked by unpleasant withdrawal symptoms when the drug is discontinued |
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Psychological dependence |
A psychological need to use a drug, such as to relieve negative emotions |
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Depressants |
Drugs such as alcohol, barbiturates and opiates that reduce neural activity and slow body functions |
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Stimulants |
Drugs such as caffeine, nicotine, amphetamines, and cocaine that excite neural activity and speed up body functions |
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Hallucinogens |
Psychedelic drugs such as LSD, that distort perceptions and evoke sensory images that aren't really there |
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Barbiturates |
Drugs that depress the activity of the ventral nervous system, reducing anxiety but impairing memory and judgement |
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Opiates |
Opium and it's derivatives, such as morphine and heroin, they depress neural activity, temporarily lessening pain and anxiety |
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Amphetamines |
Drugs that stimulate neural activity, causing sped up body functions and associated energy and mood changes |
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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 |
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LSD |
Powerful hallucinogen drug |
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THC |
Major active ingrediant in weed, triggers a variety of effects, including mild hallucinogens |
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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 |
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Dualism |
The presumption that mind and body are two distinct entities that interact |
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Monism |
The presumption that mind and body are different aspects of the same thing |
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Preconscious |
The memories or feelings that are not part of one's immediate awareness but that can be recalled through conscious effort. |
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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. |