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42 Cards in this Set
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Conciousness |
A state of awareness of the internal events and the external environment |
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Ordinary waking consciousness includes your... |
perceptions, thoughts, feelings, images, and desires |
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Preconscious Memory |
Memory that is not currently conscious but that can easily be called into consciousness when necessary |
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Nonconscious |
Not typically available to consciousness or memory |
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Inattentional Blindness |
People's failure to perceive objects when their attention is focused elsewhere |
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Circadian rhythm |
A consistent pattern of cyclical body activities, usually lasting 24 to 25 hours and determined by an internal biological clock |
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rapid eye movements (REM) |
A behavioral sign of the phase of sleep during which the sleeper is likely to be experiencing dreamlike mental activity |
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non-REM (NREM) sleep |
The period during which a sleeper does not show REM; characterized by less dream activity than during REM sleep |
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Insomnia |
The chronic inability to sleep normally; symptoms include difficulty in falling asleep, frequent waking, inability to return to sleep, and early-morning awakening |
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Narcolepsy |
A sleep disorder characterized by an irresistible compulsion to sleep during the daytime |
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Sleep Apnea |
A sleep disorder of the upper respiratory system that causes the person to stop breathing while asleep |
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Somnambulism |
A disorder that causes sleepers to leave their beds and wander while still remaining asleep; also known as sleepwalking |
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Nightmare |
A frightening dream that usually wakes up the sleeper |
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Sleep Terrors |
Episodes in which sleepers wake up suddenly in an extreme state of arousal and panic |
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Latent Content |
In Freudian dream analysis, the hidden meaning of a dream |
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Manifest Content |
In Freudian dream analysis, the surface content of a dream, which is assumed to mask the dream's actual meaning |
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Dream Work |
In Freudian dream analysis, the process by which the internal censor transforms the latent content of a dream into manifest content |
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Lucid Dreaming |
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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Hypnosis |
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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Hypnotizability |
The degree to which an individual is responsive to standardized hypnotic suggestion |
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Meditation |
A form of consciousness alteration designed to enhance self-knowledge and swell-being through reduced self-awareness |
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Tolerance |
A situation that occurs with continued use of a drug in which an individual requires greater dosages to achieve the same effect |
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Psychoactive Drug |
Chemical that affects mental processes and behavior by temporarily changing conscious awareness of reality |
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Physiological Dependence |
The process by which the body becomes adjusted to or dependent on a drug |
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Addiction |
A condition in which the body requires a drug in order to function without physical and psychological reactions to its absence; often the outcome of tolerance and dependence |
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Psychological Dependence |
They psychological need or craving for a drug |
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Hallucinogen |
Drug that alters cognitions and perceptions and causes hallucinations |
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Depressant |
Drug that depresses or slows down the activity of the central nervous system |
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Stimulant |
Drug that causes arousal, increased activity, and euphoria |
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Consolidation |
The physical process through which new, fragile memories become more permanetley encoded in the brain |
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Functions of Conciousness |
Restrictive, Selective Storage, Planning |
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Restrictive Function of Conciousness |
tuning out much of the information that is not relevant to your immediate goals and purposes |
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Selective Storage Function of Conciousness |
Within the category of information to which you consciously attend, not all of it has continuing relevance to your ongoing concerns |
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Planning Function of Conciousness |
Enables you to suppress strong desires when they conflict with moral, ethical, or practical concerns |
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REM sleep lasts for |
10 minutes |
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First for stages of sleep (NREM sleep) requires |
about 90 minutes |
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How many times do you pass through the stages of sleep? |
4-6 times |
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Stage 1 of Sleep |
3-7 CPS Theta waves |
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Stage 2 of Sleep |
12-14 CPS Sleep Spindles and K Complexes |
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Stages 3 & 4 of Sleep |
1/2-2 CPS Delta Waves |
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REM Sleep Stage |
Sawtooth Waves (low voltage) |
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Hypnotic Induction |
a preliminary set of activities that minimizes external distractions and encourages participants to concentrate only on suggested stimuli: believing they are about to enter a special state of conciousness |
