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Chapter 6
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Psychology
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11/12/2007

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Concsiousness     
Definition
are wareness of ourselves and our environments
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Fantasy prone personlaity
Definition
someone who imagines and recalls experiences with lifelike vividness and who spends considerable time fatazising.
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annual cycles
Definition
geese migrate, girzzlies hibernate, and humans may experience seasonal variations in appetite sleep length and mood.
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twenty eight day cycle
Definition
female menstrual cycle averages twenty eight days.
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twenty four hour cycle   
Definition
humans experience twenty four hour cycles of varying and falling alertness body temp and growth hormone secretion
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ninety min cycle
Definition
cycle through various stages of sleep
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biological rythms
Definition
periodic physiological fluctuations
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circadian thythm
Definition
the biological clock; regular bodily rhythms temp and wakfulness that occur on a twenty four hour cycle
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REM sleep
Definition
a recurring leep statge during which vivid dreams commondly occur. also known as paradoxical sleep because the muscles are relazed except for minor twitches but other body systmes are still active.
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Alpha waves
Definition
relatively slow brain weaves of a relzed awake state
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hallucinations
Definition
false sensory experiences such as seeing somthing in the acsence of an external visual stimulus
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delta waves
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the large slow brain waves associated wtih deep sleep
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insomnia
Definition
recurring problems in falling or styaing asleep
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narcolepsy
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a sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks sufferer may lapse directly into REM sleep often at inopportune
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manifest content
Definition
the remembered story line of a dream
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latent content
Definition
underlying meaning of a dream  a dreams latent content functions are a safety valve.
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