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| the person's subjective experience of the world and the mind |
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| a mental screen or stage on which things appear to be presented for viewing by the mind's eye |
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| how things seem to the conscious person |
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| the fundamental difficulty we ahve in perceiving the consciousness of others |
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| the issue of how the mind is related to the brain and body |
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| cocktail party phenomenon |
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| a phenomenon in which people tune in one message even while they filter out others nearby |
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| a low-level kind of sensory awareness and responsiveness that occurs when the mind inputs sensations and may output behavior |
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| consciousness in which you know and are able to report your mental state |
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| a distinct level of consciousness in which the person's attention is drawn to the self as an object |
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| the attempt to change conscious states of mind |
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| the conscious avoidance of a thought |
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| rebound effect of thought suppression |
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| the tendency of a thought to return to consciousness with greater frequency following suppression |
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| ironic processes of mental control |
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| mental processes that can produce ironic errors because monitoring for errors can itself produce them |
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| an active system encompassing a lifetime of hidden memories, the person's deepest instincts and desires and the perons' inner struggle to control these forces |
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| a mental process that removes unacceptable thoughts and memories from consciousness |
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| the mental processes that give rise to the person's thoughts, choices, emotions, and behavior even though they are not experienced by the person |
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| a thought or behavior that is influenced by stimuli that a person cannot consciously report perceiving |
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| altered states of consciousness |
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| forms of experience that depart from the normal subjective experience of the world and the mind |
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| a naturally occurring 24-hour cycle |
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| a stage of sleep characterized by rapid eye movements and a high level of brain activity |
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| difficulty in falling asleep or staying asleep |
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| a disorder in which the person stops breathing for brief periods while asleep |
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| (sleepwalking) occurs when the person arises and walks around while asleep |
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| a disorder in which sudden sleep attacks occur in the middle of waking activities |
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| the experience of waking up unable to move |
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| (sleep terrors) abrupt awakenings with panic and intense emotional arousal |
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| a chemical that influences consciousness or behavior by altering the brain's chemical message system |
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| the tendency for larger doses of a drug to be required over time to achieve the same effect |
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| substances that reduce the activity of the central nervous system |
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| the idea that alcohol effects can be produced by people's expectations of how alcohol will influence them in particular situations |
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| a condition that results when alcohol hampers attention, leading people to respond in simple ways to complex situations |
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| substances that excite the central nervous system, heightening arousal and activity levels |
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| highly addictive drugs derived from opium that relive pain |
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| endorphins or endogenous opiates |
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| neuro-transmitters that have a similar structure to opiates and that appear to play a role in how the brain copes internally with pain and stress |
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| drugs that alter sensation and perception and often cause visual and auditory hallucinations |
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| the leaves and buds of the hemp plant |
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| an altered state of consciousness characterized by suggestibility and the feelings that one's actions are occurring involuntarily |
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| the reduction of pain through hypnosis in people who are susceptible to hypnosis |
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