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| awareness of oneself and one's environment |
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| the focusing of attention on a particular stimulus |
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| descriptive of information that is not conscious but is retrievable into conscious awareness |
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| according to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories of which we are unaware but which influences our behavior |
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| descriptive of bodily processes, such as the growing of hair, of which we are not aware |
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| altered state of consciousness |
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| a type of consciousness other than normal walking consciousness |
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| a regular sequence of biological processes, such as temperature and sleep, that occurs every 24 hrs |
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| a stage of sleep characterized by rapid eye movements and linked to dreaming; also called REM sleep |
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| a sleep disorder characterized by recurring problems in falling asleep or staying asleep |
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| a sleep disorder characterized by high arousal and apparent terror; unlike nightmares, night terrors are seldom remembered |
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| a sleep disorder in which breathing is interrupted |
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| an uncommon sleep disorder characterized by brief attacks of REM sleep, often at inopportune moments |
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| a systematic narrowing of attention that slows the metabolism and helps produce feelings of relaxation |
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| a system for monitoring and feeding back information about certain biological processes, such as blood pressure |
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| a condition in which people appear to be highly suggestible and to behave as if they are in a trance |
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| instructions given to a person under hypnosis that are supposed to be carried out after the hypnosis session has ended |
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| a compulsive need for and use of a habit-forming substance |
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| a drug that reduces neural activity and slows body functions |
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| a state of drunkenness characterized by impaired coordination and judgment |
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| a type of drug that dulls the senses, relieves pain, and induces sleep; the term is usually reserved for those drugs derived from the opium poppy plant |
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| a drug that increases neural activity and speeds up body functions |
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| a type of stimulant often used to stay awake or to reduce appetite |
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| a false sensory perception that occurs in the absence of any actual stimulus |
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| a psychedelic drug, such as LSD, that distorts perceptions and evokes sensory images in the absence of actual sensory input |
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| an erroneous belief, as of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany certain psychotic disorders |
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| the removal of a poisonous or other-wise harmful substance, such as alcohol or other drugs, from the body |
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