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| Term used by William James to describe the mind as a continuous flow of changing sensations, images, thoughts, and feelings. |
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| An individual's awareness of external event and internal sensations under a condition of arousal, including awareness of the sel and thoughts about one's experiences. |
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| The most alert states of human consciousness, during which individuals actively focus their efforts toward a goal. |
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| States of consciousness that require little attentsion and do not interfere with other ongoing activities. |
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| According to Freud, a resrvior of unacceptable wishes, feelings, and thoughts that are beyond conscious awareness; Frued's interpretation viewed the unconscious as a store house or vile thoughts. |
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| A natural state of rest of the body and mind that involves the reversible loss of consciousness |
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| Periodic physiological fluctuations in the body, such as the rise and fall of hormones and accelerated and decelerated cycles of brain activity, tha can influence behavior |
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| Daily behavior or physiological cycles. Involve the sleep/wake cycle, body temperature, blood pressure, and blood sugar level. |
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| Suprachiasmatic Nucleus(SCN) |
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| A small brain structure that uses input from the retina to synchronize its own rhythm with the daily cycle of light and dark; the mechanism by wich the body monitors the chand from day to night. |
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| An active stage of sleep during which dreams occur. |
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| According to Freud, the surface content of a dream, containing dream symblols that disguise the dream's true meaning. |
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| According to Frued, a dream's hidden content; its unconscious and true meaning. |
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| Cognitive Theory of Dreaming |
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| Theory proposing that we can understand dreaming by applying the same cognitive concepts we use in studying the waking mind; rests on the ide that dreams are essentially subconscious cognitive processing involving information and memory. |
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| Activation-synthesis Theory |
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| Theory that dreaming occurs when the cerebral cortex synthesizes neural signals generated from activity in the lower part of the brain's attempts to find logic in random brain activity that occurs during sleep. |
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| Drugs that acto nthe nervous system to alter consciousness, modify percpetion, and change mood. |
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| The need to take increasing amounts of a drug to get the same effect |
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| Teh physiological need for a drug that causes unpleasant withdrwal symptoms such as physical pain and a craving for the drug when it is discountinued. |
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| The strong desire to repeat the use of a drug for emotional reasons, such as a feeling of well-being and reduction of stress. |
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| Either a physical or a psychological dependence, or both, on a drug. |
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| Psychoactive drugs that slow down mental physical activity. |
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| A disorder that involves longterm, repeated, uncontrolled, compulsive, and excessive use of alcoholic beverages and that impairs the drinker's health and social relationships |
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| Depressant drugs, such as Nembutal and Seconal, that decrease central nervous system activity. |
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| Depressant drugs, such as Valium and Xanax, that reduce anxiety and induce relaxation. |
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| Opium and its derviatives; narcotic drugs that depress activity in the central nervous system and eliminate pain. |
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| Psychoactive drugs that increase the central nervous system's activity. The most widely used stimulnats are caffeine, nicotine, amphetamines, and cocaine. |
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| Also called psychedelics, psychoactive drugs that modify a person's perceputal experiences and produce visula images that are not real |
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| An altered state of consciousness or a psychological state of altered attentions and expectation in which the individual is unusally receptive to suggestions. |
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| Divided Consciounsness view of Hypnosis |
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| Hilgard's view that hypnosis involves a splitting of consciousness into two separate componets, and the other of which acts as a "hidden observer" |
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| Social Cognitive behavior view of hypnosis |
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| Theory that hypnosis is a normal state in which the hypontized person hebaves the way he or she believes that a hypnotized person should behave |
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