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Somnambulism is also known as… |
Sleepwalking |
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Narcolepsy is… |
Overpowering urge to sleep |
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Name the 4 depressants |
Alcohol, barbiturates, tranquilizers, and opioids |
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A person is awake, and their EEG patterns include beta and alpha waves |
Stage W |
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When a person is just dozing off and starting to fall asleep; may include some muscle movements or the sensation of falling |
Stage N1 |
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No longer consciously aware of the environment; an EEG pattern will show sleep spindles |
Stage N2 |
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Characterized by delta wave patterns in an EEG and is considered our deepest sleep |
Stage N3 |
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An active stage of sleep characterized by REM and fast wave patterns in an EEG |
Stage R |
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______ is a continuous flow of changing sensations, images, thoughts, and feelings. |
Stream of Consciousness |
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A natural state of rest for the body and mind that takes more time than anything else we do is called |
Sleep |
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Stage N3 sleep is characterized by ______ waves |
Delta |
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The need to take an increasing amount of a drug to get the same effect |
Tolerance |
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__________________ is the strong desire to repeat the use of a drug for emotional reasons, such as a feeling of well-being and reduction of stress |
Psychological dependence |
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___________ are psychoactive drugs that increase the central nervous system’s activity |
Stimulants |
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Rapid, heart rate and breathing, loud screams, heavy perspiration, and movement are often identified with |
Night terrors |
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A sleep disorder in which individual stop breathing, because the windpipe fails to open or because brain processes involved in respiration fail to work properly |
Sleep apnea |
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The surface content of a dream, containing dream symbols that disguise the dream’s true meaning |
Manifest content |
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A dream’s hidden content; its unconscious and true meaning |
Latent content |
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Theory proposing that dreaming can be understood by applying the same cognitive concepts used to study the waking mind |
Cognitive theory of dreaming |
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Theory that dreaming occurs when the cerebral cortex synthesizes neural signals generated from activity in the lower part of the brain and that dreams result from the brain’s attempts to find logic in random brain activity that occurs during sleep |
Activation–synthesis theory of dreaming |
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Drugs that act on the nervous system to alter consciousness, modify it perception, and change mood |
Psychoactive drug |
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Examples of barbiturates |
Nembutal and Seconal |
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Examples of tranquilizers |
Xanax and Valium |
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What are some stimulants? |
Caffeine, nicotine, amphetamine, cocaine, and MDMA (Ecstasy) |
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MDMA produces its effects by releasing what neurotransmitters? |
Norepinephrine, dopamine, and serotonin |
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THC is the active ingredient in |
Marijuana |
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What is a hallucinogen? |
A psychoactive drug that modifies a person’s perceptual experiences and produce visual images that are not real |
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What are some hallucinogens? |
Marijuana and LSD |
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An individual’s awareness of external events in internal sensations under a condition of arousal |
Consciousness |
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Daily behavioral or physiological cycles that involve the sleep/wake cycle, body, temperature, blood pressure, and blood sugar level |
Circadian rhythms |
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A recent study found that one and four Americans develop _________each year |
Insomnia |
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Talking while asleep |
Somniloquy |
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The suprachiasmatic nucleus is located in the |
Hypothalamus |
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How much of our life does sleep take up? |
1/3 |
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The main effect of tranquilizers is that they |
Reduce anxiety and induce relaxation |
