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a state of awareness of internal events and the external environment.
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consciousness
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the body of information of which you are aware
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consciousness
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ordinary walking consciousness includes your...?
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perceptions, thoughts, feelings, images, and desires
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memories accessible to consciousness only after something calls your attention to it.
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preconscious
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participants provide information about their thoughts and feelings in the normal course of their daily lives
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experience-sampling method
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people that often carry devices that will go off and then they call in to tell the researcher their thoughts and feelings at that moment is called?
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experience-sampling method
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used to document the mental strategies and representations of knowledge that participants employ to do the task
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think-aloud protocols
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participants that are asked to speak aloud as they work through a variety of complex tasks
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think-aloud protocols
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comes out of the experience of watching yourself from this privileged "insider" position
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sense of self
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your unique interpretation of a current situation based on your general knowledge, memories of past experiences, current needs, values, beliefs, and future goals.
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personal construction of reality
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a time cycle that your body is attuned to
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circadian rhythm
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your arousal levels, metabolism, heart rate, body temperature, and hormonal activity ebb and flow according to your...?
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internal clock
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how much of your circadian rhythm is devoted to sleep
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1/3
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without the corrective effects of external time cues, the human internal "pace maker" establishes what?
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a 24.18 hour cycle
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how much brain wave activity in cps is there during awake stage
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low voltage - irregular, fast
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how much brain wave activity in cps is there during stage 1
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3-7 cps
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what are the brain wave activity in stage 1 called
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theta waves
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how much brain wave activity in cps is there during stage 2
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12-14 cps
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how much brain wave activity in cps is there during stage 3 and 4
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1/2 - 2 cps
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how much brain wave activity in cps is there during REM sleep
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low voltage - random, fast with saw tooth waves
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what are the brain wave activity in stage 2 called
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sleep spindles and k complexes
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what are the brain wave activity in stage 3 and 4 called
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delta waves>75 mV
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provides measures of ongoing brain activity
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EEG
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when you go to sleep how fast are your brain waves moving
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14 cps
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what is cps mean
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cycles per second
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what happens when you get in bed
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you relax and brain waves slow down
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what happens in stage 3 and 4
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you are in very deep relaxation, and your breathing and heart rate decrease
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when do you begin to dream
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REM stage
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how long does the first 4 stages take
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90 min
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how long does REM sleep last
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10 min
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how many times do you pass through the sleep cycle in one night
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4-6 times
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with each time the amount of time spent in the cycles a night your deep sleep (stage 3) ______ and your REM sleep ______.
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decreases; increases
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how do we design our sleep habits?
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to get enough sleep you need to standardize your bed time and rising time throughout the week
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provides the brain with an opportunity to interrupt that damage and undertake repairs of the brain's cells
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NREM sleep
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what does REM sleep do for infants
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necessary for the development of normal function in the visual system and perhaps other sensory and motor systems
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what does REM sleep do for adults?
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Plays in learning and memory
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how does age effect our sleep patterns?
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as we get older our REM sleep decreases and NREM sleep decreases less sharply
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when people are dissatisfied with their amount or quality of sleep
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insomnia
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a women goes to the doctor and tells him that she is unable to fall asleep quickly, frequent arousal during sleep, and early-morning awakening... what would he say she has
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insomnia
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what percent of Americans say that they had experience insomnia at least once a month
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52.5%
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what percent of americans say that they experience insomnia every night
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7%
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a sleep disorder characterized by sudden and irresistible instances of sleepiness during the day-time
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narcolepsy
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a women goes to the doctor and says that she falls asleep instantly at work and she has vivid dreams and sometimes hallucinations. what does she have?
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narcolepsy
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how many people are affected by narcolepsy
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1 of every 20,000
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what sleep disorder is considered to be genetic based
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narcolepsy
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an upper-respiratory sleep disorder in which the person stops breathing while alseep
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sleep apnea
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what happens when your blood's oxygen level drop and emergency hormones are secreted
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you wake up and breathe again
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what percent of adults does sleep apnea effect
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2 %
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why do people sleep less today than they did in the past?
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too many things keeping you up... electricity, television...etc.
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the hidden meaning. represents the socially or personally unacceptable version but also the true "uncut" one
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latent content
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appears to the dreamer after a distortion process that Freud referred to as the story
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manifest
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the theory that conscious awareness of dreaming is a learnable skill that enables dreamers to control the direction and content of their dreams.
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lucid dreaming
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what happens to your heart rate during lucid dreaming
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it goes up
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a researcher put goggles on someone that would shine a red light when the EEG showed that the patient was in REM sleep so that the patient would know that they were dreaming. what kind of dreaming is the doctor trying to make
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lucid dreaming
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what effect hypnotizability
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your IQ the higher it is the less likely you will be able to be hypnotized
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what are the goals of meditation?
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pain reduction, reduce stress, higher IQ
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false perception that occurs in the absence of objective stimulation
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hallucinations
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leads to a loss of boundary between self and nonself
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Hallucination
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most common hallucinations are...?
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LSD and PCP
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what can cause hallucinations
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stress, fear, dehydration, drugs, and fever
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a large dose of what plant with psychoactive effects with an active ingredient of THC which is found in hashish and marijuana can create hallucinations
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cannabis
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when your body becomes used to something and it takes more of that substance for it to affect your body
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tolerance
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what mimics natural chemicals released by the brain?
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nicotine
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a person is at a party and she is talking to her friend. in the conversation across the room she hears her name what is this called?
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unattended information
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the period during which a sleeper does not show rapid eye movement; characterized by less dream activity than during REM sleep
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NonREM
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an altered state of awareness characterized by deep relaxation, susceptibility to suggestions, and changes in perception, memory, motivation, and self-control
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hypnosis
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the degree to which an individual is responsive to standardized hypnotic suggestion
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hypnotizability
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a form of consciousness change designed to enhance self-knowledge and well being by achieving a deep state of tranquility
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meditation
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