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| The awareness of the sensations, thoughts, and feelings being experienced at a given moment. |
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| The state of transition between wakefulness and sleep characterized by relatively rapid, low-amplitude brain waves. |
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| A sleep deeper than that of stage 1, characterized by a slower, more regular wave pattern, along with momentary interruptions of "sleep spindles." |
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| A sleep characterized by slow brain waves, with greater peaks and valleys in the wave pattern than in stage 2 sleep. |
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| The deepest stage of sleep during which we are least responsive to outside stimulation |
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| Rapid eye movement (REM)sleep |
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| Sleep, occupying 20 percent of an adult's sleeping time, characterized by increased heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing rate; erections; eye movements, and the experience of dreaming. |
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| Unconscious wish fulfillment theory |
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| Sigmind Freud's theory that dreams represent unconscious wishes that dreamers desire to see fulfilled. |
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| According to Freud's, the "disguised" meanings of dreams, hidden by more obvious subects. |
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| Manifest content of dreams |
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| According to Freud, the apparent story line of dreams. |
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| Dreams-for-survival theory |
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| The theory suggesting that dreams permit information that is critical for our daily survival to be reconsidered and reprocessed during sleep. |
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| Activation-synthesis theory |
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| Hobson's theory that the brain produces random electrical energy during REM sleep that stimulates memories lodged in various portions of the brain. |
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| Biological processes that occur regularly on approximately a 24-hour cycle. |
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| Fantasis that people constructs while awake. |
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| A trance-like state of heightened susceptibility to the suggestions of others. |
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| A learned technique for refocusing attention that brings about an altered state of consciousness. |
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| Drugs that influence a person's emotions, perceptions, and behavior. |
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| Drugs that produce a biological or psychological dependence in the user so that withdrawal from them leads to a craving for the drug that, in some cases, may be nearly irresistible. |
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| Drugs that have an arousal effect on the central nervous system, causing a rise in heart rate, blood pressure, and muscular tension. |
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| Drugs that slow down the nervous system. |
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| Drugs that increase relaxation and relieve pain and anxiety, |
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| A drug that is capable of producing hallucinations, or changes in the perceptual process. |
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