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| the awareness of ones self and the enviornment |
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| Study of how brain activity is linked to mental processes |
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| Focus conscious awareness on particular stimulus |
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| Attending to one voice among many |
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| Failing to see a visible object when our attention is directed elsewhere |
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| Not noticing that the speaker changes |
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| Very powerful stimuli attracting our attention |
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| Slow brain waves in relaxed but awake stage |
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| Sensory Sensations similar to hallucinations called hypnagognic sensations |
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| Bursts of brain activity called sleep Spindles, also known as brain waves |
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| Large, slow brain waves that occur first in stage 3 and increase in stage 4. |
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| Delta waves, sleep walking, sleep talking and night terrors can occur in this stage |
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| AKA paradoxical sleep. Motor cortex is active but muscles are relaxed. Heart rate increases, internal arousal, rapid breathing and REM occurs. 20 to 25 percent of nights sleep is spent in this |
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| Uncontrollable sleep attacks, collapsing directly into REM sleep and experience a loss of muscular tension. Linked to low levels of neurotransmitter orexin which is linked to alertness |
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| Stop breathing while sleeping, prevalent in fat people |
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| extreme fright, happen only during stage 4 |
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| Dreams are filled with manifest content which is symbolic of the true meaning or latent content. dreams reflect erotic wishes and served as a psychic safety valve that discharge otherwise unacceptable feelings. |
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| Activation Synthesis theory |
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| Brain are elicited by random bursts of neural activity, dreams are the brains attempt to make sense of this activity |
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| Idea that we can relive childhood experiences through hypnosis. Has no research to back it up |
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| Post hypnotic suggestions |
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| Help people alleviate headaches, asthma and stress related skin disorders. Can treat obesity as well but not smoking drug or alcohol addictions. |
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| Theory that hypnotic subjects may simply be imaginative actors playing a social role |
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| Split between levels of consciousness. For ex. there is a split between sensory and emotional aspects of pain. |
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| Any drugs that alter your mood and perception |
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| AKA Tranquilizers. Depressants that induce sleep and reduce anxiety |
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| Happens during transition state between awake and asleep aka stage 1 dream sensation similar to hallucinations, lack narrative content |
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| Stimulant, speed up bodily functions and neural activity |
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| Addictive stimulant that speeds up bodily functions and changes mood |
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