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24 Cards in this Set
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a concept requiring a belief in something that cannot be seen or touched but that seems to exist
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construct
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the organisms awareness of, or possibility of knowing, what is happening inside or outside itself
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consciousness
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consiousness just below our present awareness
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subconscious
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thoughts or desires about which we have no direct knowledge
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unconscious
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internal chemical units that control regular cycles in parts of the body
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biological clocks
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cycles set up by biological clocks that are under their own control, ignoring the environment
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free-running cycles
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the process of alterning the free-running cycle to fit a different rhythm
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entrainment
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sequences of behavioral changes that occur every 24 hours
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circadian rhythm
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relaxed state just before we fall asleep
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twilight state
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rapid eye movement sleep; the stage of sleep when dream occurs
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REM sleep
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rapid brain waves; appear when a person is awake
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beta waves
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fairly relaxed brain waves that occur in stage 1, just before we go to sleep
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alpha waves
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slow,lazy.deep-sleep brain waves
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delta waves
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non-rapid eye movement sleep; sleep involving partial thoughts,images, or stories that are poorly organized
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NREM sleep
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frightening dream that occurs during REM
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nightmare
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increase in the number of dreams after being deprived of REM sleep
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REM rebound
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a horrible dream occuring during NREM, when the body is not prepared for it; also called an incubus attack
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night terror
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the inability to get enough sleep
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insomnia
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disorder in which a person falls instantly into sleep no matter what is going on in the environment
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narcolepsy
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condition in which a person"s breathing often stops while the person is asleep
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sleep apnea
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a state of relaxation in which attention is focused on certain objects,acts or feelings
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hypnosis
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process of reliving one's very early childhood under hypnosis
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age repression
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another word for the state of deep relaxation that can occur during hypnosis
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trance
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a form of self- control in which the outside world is cut off from consciousness
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meditation
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