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26 Cards in this Set
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Consciousness
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Awareness of yourself and your environment
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Selective Attention
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Focused Awareness on a single stimulus to the exclusion of all others
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Divided Attention
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Attention that is split and simultaneously focused on different stimuli
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Daydreaming
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Relatively passive state of waking consciousness that involves turning attention away from external stimuli to internal thought and imaginary situations
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Fantasy-prone personalities
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ppl. who have regular, vivid fantasy and who sometimes cannot separate fantasy from reality.
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Mindfullness
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A heightened state of awareness of present movements
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Sleep
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non-waking state of consciousness characterized by minimal physical movement and minimal responsiveness to one's surroundings
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Circadian Rythyms
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Internally generated behavioral and physiological changes that occur on a daily basis
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Suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN)
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cluster of neurons in hypothalamus that controls timing of sleep-wake cycle
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Melatonin
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Hormone produced by pineal gland that induces drowsiness
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Beta Waves
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Very fast, low amplitude brain waves associated with an active alert state of mind
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Alpha waves
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fast, low amplitude brain waves associated with a relaxed wakeful state. (Meditation)
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NREM sleep
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Non- Rapid Eye Movement, relatively inactive phase in the sleep cycle.
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REM sleep
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relatively active phase in sleep cycle characterized by rapid eye movements, in which dreaming occurs
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Theta Waves
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Irregular, low amplitude brain waves associated with stage 1 sleep
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Sleep spindles
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Bursts of rapid rhythmic electrical activity in the brain characteristic of stage 2 sleep
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Delta Waves
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Slow high amplitude brain waves most typical of stage 4 sleep
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Restorative Theory of sleep
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A theory that sleep allows the body to restore itself following the rigors of daily life
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Adaptive Theory of Sleep
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Theory that sleep prevents us from moving about and being injured during a time of the day in which our bodies are not well adapted
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Dream
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Story-like sequence of vivid visual images experienced during sleep
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Lucid Dreams
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Dream in which dreamer is aware of dreaming and is often able to change the plot of the dream
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Manifest Content
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The dream that is remembered by the dreamer
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Latent Content
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the true meaning of the dream that is concealed from the dreamer trough the symbols that make up the manifest content
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Problem solving theory
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theory that dreaming provides the opportunity to creatively solve everyday problems because dreams are not hampered by logic or realism
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Off-line dream theory
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theory that the cognitive processing that occurs during dreaming consolidates and stores info gathered during the day, thus allowing us to maintain a smaller and more efficient brain
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Activated Synthesis Theory
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Theory that dreaming is a by product of Random brain activity, which the forebrain weaves into a somewhat logical story
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