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| awareness of ourselves and our environment |
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| focusing on a particular stimulus |
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| failing to see change in visible object |
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| ability to tend to one voice at a time. could be talking and one thing catches your attention and its hard to refocus |
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| strikingly distinct figure grabs your attention |
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| periodic, natural, reversible loss of consciousness; 5 stages, each 90 min |
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| slow breathing, sensations of falling |
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| sleep spindles (burst of rapid brain activity), easily awakened |
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| transitional stage, delta brain waves (large slow waves) |
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| delta waves still, deep sleep, still process info, sleepwalking and bet wetting can occur, gets shorter as night goes on |
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| rapid eye movement, rapid heart rate and breathing, sexual arousal (always), gets longer as night goes on |
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| less than 7-8 hrs a night. sleep deprivation effects immune system, metabolism slows down, communication, creativity, traffic accidents. |
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| persistent problems with falling or staying asleep |
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| uncontrollable sleep attacks |
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| temp. stop breathing during sleep |
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| high arousal and terrified appearance, during stage 4, not result of a nightmare |
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| dreams that incorporate traces of previous days preoccupations |
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| satisfy wishes, file memories, develop neural paths, makes sense of neural static, reflect cognitive devel. |
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| diminishing effects with regular use, thus requiring larger and larger does of the same drug to the same effect |
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| discomfort and distress after stopping the use of a drug, indicates physical dependence |
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| craving and using a drug despite the negative consequences |
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| chemical that change perceptions and moods through their actions at the neural synapses |
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| drugs that calm neural activity and slow body functions |
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| temporarily excite neural activity and arouse body functions |
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