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| One's subjective experience of the world, resulting from brain activity |
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| A condition in which the corpus callosum is surgically cut and the two hemispheres of the brain do not receive information directly from each other |
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| A term specific to the left hemisphere; refers to the left hemisphere's attempts to make sense of actions and ongoing events |
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| The processing of information by sensory systems without conscious awareness |
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| The regulation of biological cycles into regular patterns |
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| The stage of sleep marked by rapid eye movements, dreaming, and paralysis of motor systems |
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| A disorder characterized by an inability to sleep |
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| A disorder in which a person, while asleep, stops breathing because his or her throat closes; the condition results in frequent awakenings during the night |
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| A sleep disorder in which people experience excessive sleepiness during normal waking hours, sometimes going limp and collapsing |
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| Products of an altered state of consciousness in which images and fantasies are confused with reality |
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| According to Sigmund Freud, the plot of a dream; the way a dream is remembered |
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| According to Sigmund Freud, what a dream symbolizes; the material that is disguised in a dream to protect the dreamer from confronting a conflict directly |
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| Activation-Synthesis Theory |
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| A theory of dreaming; this theory proposes that the brain tries to make sense of random brain activity that occurs during sleep by synthesizing the activity with stored memories |
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| A social interaction during which a person, responding to suggestions experiences changes in memory, perception, and/or voluntary action |
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| A mental procedure that focuses attention on an external object or on a sense of awareness |
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