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| Our awareness of ourselves and our environment |
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| The principle that information is often simultaneousy processed on seperate conscious and unconscious tracks. |
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| the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus |
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| Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere. |
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| Failing to notice changes in the environment |
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| The biological clock;regular bodily rhythms |
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| Rapid Eye movement sleep; a recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur. Also known as paradoxical sleep because the muscles are relaxed but other body systems are active |
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| the relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state |
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| periodic, natural loss of consciousness - as distinct from unconsciousness resulting from a coma,genearl anesthesia or hibernation |
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| false sensory experiences such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus |
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| the large, slow brain waves associtated with deep sleep |
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| Recurring problems in falling or staying asleep |
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| a sleep disorder characterized by uncrontrollable sleep attacks. The sufferer may lapse directly into REM sleep, often at inopportune times. |
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| a sleep disorder characterized by temporary cessations of breathing during sleep and repeated momentary awakenings |
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| a sleep disorder characterized by high arousal and an appearance of being terrified; unlike nightmares,night terrors occur during Stage 4 sleep,within two or three hours of faling 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,discountinuities, and incongruities,and for the dreamers delusional acceptance of the content and later difficulties in remembering it. |
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| according to Freud, the remembered storyline of a dream |
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| According to Freud , the underlaying meaning of a dream |
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| The tendency for REM sleep to increase folowing REM sleep deprivation |
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| a social interaction in which one person (the hypnotist) suggests to another (the subject) that certian perceptions, feelings,thougths or behaviors will spontaneously occur. |
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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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| a split in consciousness which allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously with others. |
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| a chemical substance that alters perceptions and moods. |
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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 withdral symptoms when the drug is discontinued |
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| a psychological need to use a drug,such as to relieve negative symptoms |
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| compulsive drug cravings and use, despite adverse consequences |
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| drugs /alcohol,barbituates, opiates that reduce neural activity and slow body functions |
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| drugs that depress the activity of the cns reducing anxiety but impairing memory and judgement |
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| Opium and its derivatives such as morphine and heroin; they depress neural activity,temporarily lessening pain and anxiety. |
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| caffeine,nicotine, amphetamines, and the even more powerful cocaine,ecstasy and meth. that excite neural activity and speed up body functions |
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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 addictive drug that stimulates the cns with speeded up body functions and associated energy and mood changes overtime appears to reduce baseline dopamine levels. |
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| a synthetic stimulant and mile hallucionogen. Produces euphoria and social intimacy but with short -termhealth risks and longer-termharmto serotonin-producing neurons and to mood and cognition |
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| psychedelic drugs such as lsd that distort perceptions and envoke sensory images in the absence of sensory input. |
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| a powerful hallucionogenic drug; also known as acid |
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| an altered state of consciousness reported after a close brush with dealth often similar to drug -induced hallucionations. |
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| the major ingredient in marijuana,triggers a variety of effects,including mild hallucinations. |
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| In terms of hypnosis, if a psychologist said that it reflects the power of social roles and suggestions, they would be using which explanation of the hynotized state? |
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| By inventing customs and passing them on to their peers and offspring, chimpanzees exhibit the rudiments of: |
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| the biological clock that regulates bodily rhythms |
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| A sleep disorder where REM sleep enters a persons waking state is: |
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| Freud called the underlying meaning of a dream the: |
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