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| Our awareness of the outside world, and our perceptions, thoughts, and feelings |
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| Fantasy-Prone Personality |
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| Someone who imagines and recalls experiences with lifelike vividness and who spends considerable time fantasizing. |
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| The influence we exercise over our consciousness |
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| Periodic physiological fluctuations. Controlled by an “internal biological clock” (annual, 28 day, 24 hour, and 90 minute cycles) |
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| Daily cycle lasting 24 hours, with each cycle including both a sleeping and waking period. |
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| Rapid eye movement sleep, a recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commony occur. Also, known as paradixical sleep because the muscles are relaxed (except for minor twitches) but other body systems are active. |
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| Small, slow waves, awake but relaxed state |
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| State during which the body is less active and people are less responsive to the environment: however, the neurons in the brain are active. Periodic, natural, reversible, loss of consciousness |
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| Strong mental images that seem as if they truly occurred in the absence of physical stimuli. The most common of which is auditory, such as voices coming from outside ones head, but may also include visual, smells, tastes, and skin-sense hallucinations. False sensory experiences |
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| Large, slow waves, Stage 4 sleep (deep sleep) |
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| Difficulty in falling and/or remaining asleep |
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| A sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks. Person may lapse directly into REM sleep. |
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| Disorder involving frequent lapses of breathing during sleep. May happen many as 300 times per night. |
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| Dream that occurs during REM sleep which produces anxiety or fear. |
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| A sleep disorder characterized by high arousal and an appearance of being terrfied; unlike nightmares, night terrors occur during Stage 4 sleep, within 2-3 hours of falling asleep, and are seldom remembered. |
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| A sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping person’s mind. Dreams are notable for their hallucinatory imagery, discontinuties, and incongurities, and for the dreamer’s delusional acceptance of the content and later difficulties remembering it. |
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| According to Freud, the remembered story line of a dream (as distinct from its latent content) |
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| According to Freud, the underlying but censored meaning of a dream. Freud believed that a dream’s latent content functioned as a safety valve. |
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| the tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation (created by repeated awakenings during REM sleep) |
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| a social interaction in which one person (the hypnotist) suggests to another that certain perceptions, feeling, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur. |
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| Supposed inability to recall what one experienced during hypnosis, induced by the hypnotist’s suggestion |
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| a suggestion, made during a hypnosis session, to be carried out after the subject is no longer hypnotized; used by some clinicians to help control undesired symptoms and behaviors |
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| Splitting off of menatal processes into two separate, simultaneous streams of awareness. (i.e. during hypnosis) |
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| Hilgard’s term describing a hypnotized subject’s awareness of experiences, such as pain, that go unreported during hynosis. |
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| A chemical substance that alters perceptions and mood |
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| the diminishing effect with regular use of the same dose of a drug, requiring the user to take larger and larger doses before experiencing the drug’s effect. |
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| the discomfort and distress that follow discontinuing the use of an addictive drug. |
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| a physiological need for a drug, marked by unpleasant withdrawl symptoms when the drug is discontinued |
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| A psychological dependence a psychological need to use a drug such as to relieve negative emotions |
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| drugs that reduce neural activity and slow body functions (alcohol) |
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| Drugs that excite neural activity and speed up body functions |
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| psychedelic drugs, such as LSD, that distort perceptions and evoke sensory images in the absence of sensory input |
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| drugs that depress the activity of the CNS, reducing anxiety but imparing memory and judgment. |
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| opium and its derivatives, such as morphine and heroine; they depress neural activity, temporarily lessening pain and anxiety |
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| drugs that stimulate neural activity, causing speeded-up body functions and associated energy and mood changes. |
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| a powerful hallucinogenic drug; also known as acid (lysergic acid diethylamide) |
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| the major active ingredient in marijauna; triggers a variety of effects, including mild hallucinations. |
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| an altered state of consciousness reported after a close brush with death. |
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| the presumption that mind and body are two distinct entities that interact. |
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| the presumption that mind and body are different aspects of the same thing |
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