Vocabulary Quiz 4

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Narcolepsy

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sleep disorder that causes excessive sleepiness and frequent daytime sleep attacks. When a narcoleptic falls asleep they generally experience the REM stage of sleep within 10 minutes;

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Night terror

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a night terror is not technically a dream, but more like a sudden reaction of fear that happens during the transition from one sleep phase to another. Night terrors are characterized by frequent recurrent episodes of intense crying and fear during sleep, with difficulty arousing the subject.

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Parapsychology

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the branch of psychology that deals with the investigation of purportedly psychic phenomena, as clairvoyance, extrasensory perception, telepathy, and the like.

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Posthypnotic suggestion

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A suggestion made to a hypnotized person that specifies an action to be performed after awakening, often in response to a cue.

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REM sleep

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normal stage of sleep characterized by the rapid movement of the eyes. REM sleep is classified into two categories: tonic and phasic. It was identified and defined by Nathaniel Kleitman and Eugene Aserinsky in the early 1950s.

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Sleep apnea

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disorder in which you have one or more pauses in breathing or shallow breaths while you sleep.

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Stimulants

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psychoactive drugs which induce temporary improvements in either mental or physical function or both. Examples of these kinds of effects may include enhanced alertness, wakefulness, and locomotion, among others.

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Reuptake

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reabsorption of a neurotransmitter by a neurotransmitter transporter of a pre-synaptic neuron after it has performed its function of transmitting a neural impulse.

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Acquisition

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first stages of learning when a response is established. In classical conditioning, acquisition refers to the period of time when the stimulus comes to evoke the conditioned response.

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Bandura, Albert

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made the Social Learning Theory;analyzed the foundations of human learning and the propensity of children and adults to imitate behavior observed in others.

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Classical conditioning

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Ivan Pavlov created it. a learning process that occurs through associations between an environmental stimulus and a naturally occurring stimulus.

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Unconditioned stimulus

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The unconditioned stimulus is one that unconditionally, naturally, and automatically triggers a response. For example, when you smell one of your favorite foods, you may immediately feel very hungry. In this example, the smell of the food is the unconditioned stimulus.

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conditioned stimulus

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The conditioned stimulus is previously neutral stimulus that, after becoming associated with the unconditioned stimulus, eventually comes to trigger a conditioned response.

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Unconditioned Response

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The unconditioned response is the unlearned response that occurs naturally in response to the unconditioned stimulus.the feeling of hunger in response to the smell of food is the unconditioned response.

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Conditioned Response

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response is the learned response to the previously neutral stimulus.