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| our awareness of ourselves and our enviroment |
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| periodic physiological fluctuations |
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| rapid eye movement sleep, a recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur |
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| the relativly slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state |
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| the periodic, natural, reversible loss of consciousness |
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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 associated with deep sleep |
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| recuring problems in falling asleep or staying awake |
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| a sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks |
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| a sleep disorder characterized by temporary cessations of breathing during sleep and consequent momentary reawakenings |
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| a sleep disorder characterized by high arousal and an appearence of being terrified |
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| a sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping persons mind |
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| according to Freud, the remembered story line of a dream |
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| according to Freud, the underlying meaning of a dream |
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| the tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation |
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| the social interaction in which one person suggests to another that certian thoughts, behaviors, or perceptions will spontaneously occur |
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| supposed inability to recall what one experienced during hypnosis |
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| a suggestion, made to be carried out during hypnosis session, to be carried out after the subject is no longer hypnotized |
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| a slpit in consciousness, which allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simutaneously with others |
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| Higard's term, describing a hypnotized subjects awareness of experiences that go unreported during hypnosis |
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| a chemical substance that alters perceptions and mood |
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| the dimishing effect of the same dose of a drug, requring larger doses for the same effect |
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| the discomfort and distress that follows discontinuing of an adddictive drug |
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| a psychological need for a drug, marked by unpleasent withdrawal symptoms when the drug is discontinued |
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| a psychological need for a drug, such as to releive negative emotions |
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| drugs that reduce nerual activityand slow body functions |
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| drugs that excite neural activity and speed up body functions |
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| psychedelic drugs, like LSD, that distort perceptions and envoke sensory images in the absence of sensory input |
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| drugs that depress the activity of the central nervous system, reducing anxiety but impairing memory and judgement |
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| opium and its derivatives |
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| drugs that stimulate neural activity, causing speeding-up body functions and associated energy and mood changes |
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| a synthetic stimulant and mild hallucinogens |
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| a powerful hallucinogen drug |
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| a major active ingredient on marijuana |
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| an altered state of consciousness reported after a close brush with death |
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| the presumption that the mind and body are two seperate entities that interact |
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| the presumption that the mind and body are different aspects of the same thing |
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