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| Physical and psychological symptoms that occur when someone addicted to a drug stops taking it |
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| Increased resistance to a drug's effects accompanying continued use |
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| Suprachinasmatic Nucleus (SCN) |
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| An area of the brain containing a biological clock that governs circadian rhythms |
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| Drugs that speed up the activity in the central nervous system |
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| Sociocognative Explanation of Hypnosis |
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| The effects of hypnosis result from an interaction between the social influence of the hypnotist (the "socio" part) and the abilities, beliefs, and expectations of the subject (the "cognitive" part) |
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| short bursts of rapid, high-peaking brain waves |
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| A disorder in which breathing briefly stops during sleep, causing the person to choke and gasp and momentarily awaken |
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| Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) |
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| A controversial disorder in which a person experiences depression during the winter and an improvement in mood in the spring |
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| Sleep periods characterized by eye movement, loss of muscle tone, and dreaming |
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| A drug capable of influencing perception, mood, cognition, or behavior |
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| Consciousness-altering drugs that produce hallucinations, change thought processes, or disrupt the normal perception of time and space |
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| Problem-Focused Approach to Dreams |
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| An explanation in which the symbols and metaphors in a dream do not disguise it's true meaning, they convey it |
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| "Prementrual Syndrome" (PMS) |
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| A vague cluster of physical and emotional symptoms - including fatigue, headache, irritability, and depression - associated with the days preceding menstruation that came to be thought of as an illness and was given a label |
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| Drugs, derived from the opium poppy, that relieve pain and commonly produce euphoria |
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| Sleep periods characterized by fewer eye movements than in REM sleep |
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| A sleep disorder involving sudden and unpredictable daytime attacks of sleepiness or lapses into REM sleep |
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| The aspects of a dream that we consciously experience during sleep and may remember upon waking |
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| A dream in which the dreamer is aware of dreaming |
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| The aspects of a dream that are unconscious wishes and thoughts being expressed symbolically |
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| Internal Desynchronization |
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| A state in which biological rhythms are not in phase (synchronized)with one another |
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| A procedure in which the practitioner suggests changes in the sensations, perceptions, thoughts, feeling, or behavior of the participant |
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| According to Hilgard, in many hypnotized persons, one part of the mind that is watching but not participating while most of the mind is subject to hypnotic suggestion |
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| The synchronization of biological rhythms with external cues such as fluctuations in daylight |
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| Generated from within rather than from external cues |
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| A split in consciousness in which one part of the mind operates independently of others |
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| Drugs that slow activity in central nervous system |
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| Very slow brain waves with very high peaks |
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| A process by which the synaptic changes associated with recently stored memories become durable and stable, causing memory to become more reliable |
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| Awareness of oneself and the environment |
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| A biological rhythm with a period of about 24 hours; from the Latin word circa "about" and dies "a day" |
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| A periodic , more or less regular fluctuation in biological system; it may or may not have psychological implications |
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| Synthetic derivatives of testosterone that are taken in pill form or by injection, to increase muscle mass and strength |
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| On an EEG recording, alpha waves have a regular, slow rhythm and high amplitude (height) |
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| Activation-Synthesis Theory |
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| The theory that dreaming results from the cortical synthesis and interpretation of neural signals triggered by activity in the lower parts of the brain |
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