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43 Cards in this Set
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Consciousness
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Our awareness of ourselves and our environment
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Cognitive Neuroscience
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The interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition (including perception, thinking, memory, and language).
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Dual Processing
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The principle that information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks.
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Blindsight
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a condition in which a person can respond to a visual stimulus without consciously experiencing it.
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Selective Attention
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The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus
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Inattentional Blindness
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Falling to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere.
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Change Blindness
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Failing to notice changes in the environment
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Circadian Rhythm
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The biological clock; regular bodily rhythms (for example, temperature and wakefulness) that occur on a 24-hour cycle.
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REM Sleep
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Rapid eye movement sleep, a recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur. Also known as paradoxical sleep, because the muscles are relaxed (except for minor twitches) but other body systems are active.
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Alpha Waves
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The relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state.
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Sleep
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Periodic, natural, reversible loss of consciousness-asdistrinct from unconsciousness resulting from a coma, general anesthesia, or hibernation.
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Hallucinations
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False sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus.
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Delta Waves
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The large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep
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Insomnia
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Recurring problems in falling or staying asleep
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Narcolepsy
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A sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks. The sufferer may lapse directly into REM sleep, often at inopportune times.
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Sleep Apnea
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A sleep disorder characterized by temporary cessations of breathing during sleep and repeated momentary awakenings
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Night Terrors
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A sleep disorder characterized by high arousal and an appearance of being terrified; unlike nightmares, night terrors occur during NREM-3 sleep, within two or three hours of falling asleep, are are seldom remembered.
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Dream
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A sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping person's mind. Dreams are notable for their hallucinatory imagery, discontinuities, and incongruities, and fro the dreamer's delusional acceptance of the content and later difficulties remembering it.
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Manifest Content
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According to Freud, the remembered story line of a dream (as distinct from its latent, or hidden, content).
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Latent Content
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According to Freud, the underlying meaning of a dream (as a distinct from its manifest content).
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REM rebound
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The tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation (created by repeated awakenings during REM sleep).
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Hypnosis
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A social interaction in which one person (the hypnotist) suggests to another (the subject) that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviours will spontaneously occur.
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Posthypnotic Suggestion
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A suggestion, made during a hypnosis session, to be carried out after the subject is no longer hypnotized; used by some clinicians to help control undesired symptoms and behaviours.
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Dissociation
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A split in consciousness which allows some thoughts and behaviours to occur simultaneously with others
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Psychoactive Drug
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A chemical substance that alters perceptions and moods
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Tolerance
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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 drug's effect.
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Addiction
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Compulsive drug cravings and use, despite adverse consequences
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Withdrawal
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The discomfort and distress that follow discontinuing the use of an addictive drug
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Physical Dependence
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A physiological need for a drug, marked by unpleasant withdrawal symptoms when the drug is discontinued.
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Psychological Dependence
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A psychological need to use a drug, such as to relieve negative emotions.
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Depressants
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Drugs (such as alcohol, barbiturates, and opiates) that reduce neural activity and slow body functions.
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Alcohol Dependence
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Alcohol use marked by tolerance, withdrawal if suspended, and a drive to continue to use
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Barbiturates
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Drugs that depress central nervous system activity, reducing anxiety but impairing memory and judgement
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Opiates
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Opium and its derivatives, such as morphine
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Stimulants
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Drugs (such as ceffeine, nicotine, and the more powerful amphetamines, cocaine, Ecstasy, and methamphetamine) the excite neural activity and speed up body functions
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Amphetamines
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Drugs that stimulate neural activity, causing speeded-up body functions and associated energy and mood changes
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Nicotine
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A stimulating and highly addictive psychoactive drug in tobacco.
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Methamphetamine
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a powerfully addictive drug that stimulates the central nervous system, with speeded-up body functions and associated energy and mood changes; over times, appears to reduce baseline dopamine levels
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Ecstasy (MDMA)
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A synthetic stimulant and mild hallucinogen. Produces euphoria and social intimacy, but with short-term health risks and longer-term harm to serotonin- producing neurons and to mood and cognition.
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Hallucinogens
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Psychedelic drugs, such as LSD, that distort perceptions and evoke sensory images in the absence of sensory input.
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LSD
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A powerful hallucinogenic drug, also known as acid
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Near-death Experience
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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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THC
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The major active ingredient in marijuana; triggers a variety of effects, including mild hallucinations
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