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| a concept requiring a belief in something that cannot be seen or touched but that seems to exist |
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| awareness of, or possibility of knowing what is happening inside or outside itself |
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| consciousness just below our present awareness |
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| thoughts or desires about which we have no direst knowledge |
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| internal chemical units that control regular cycles in parts of the body |
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| cycles set up by biological clockes that are under their own control, ignoring the environment |
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| the process of altering the free-running cycle to fit a different rhythm |
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| sequences of behavioral changes that occur every 24 hours |
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| relaxed state just before we fall asleep |
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rapid eye movement sleep; the stage of sleep when dreams occur
NO sleepwalking or night terrors
body shuts down |
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| rapid brain waves; appear when a person i awake |
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| fairly relaxed brain waves that occur in stage 1, just before we go to sleep |
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| slow, lazy, deep-sleep brain waves |
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non- rapid eye movement sleep; sleep involving partial thoughts, image, or stories that are poorly organized
don't dream, night terrors and sleepwalking occurs |
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| frightening dream that occurs during REM |
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| a horrible dream occuring during NREM, when the body is not prepared for it; also called INCUBUS ATTACK |
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| the inability to get enough sleep |
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| disorder in which a person falls asleep instantly no matter wat is going on in the environment |
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| condition in which a person's breathing often stops while the person is asleep |
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| a state of relaxation in shich attention is focused on certain objects, acts, or feelings |
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| process of reliving one's very early childhood under hypnosis |
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| another word for the state of seep relaxation that can occur during hypnosis |
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| a form of self control in which the outside world is cut off from consciousness |
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| our senses make us conscious of our environment |
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| rejecting certain infor or events from awareness |
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| purposely putting images, feelings or memories out of your awareness |
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| altered states of consciousness |
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| states awareness aside form normal waking state. EX: sleep, meditation, hypnosis, drugs, etc... |
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| 5 reoccuring stages: 4 NREM stages and 1 REM stage |
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| lasts 5-10 minutes, 50% reduction in activity |
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| light sleep, heart rate slows, vague thoughts, body prepares for deep sleep |
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| deep sleep stages, delta waves (slow) |
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| heart/breathing become erratic, intense dreaming, muscles may twitch, heightened cerebral activity |
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1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, REM
brian is "idle", partial thoughts/images, sleep walking.talking |
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| electroencephalograph (EEG) |
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| measures the electrical activity of the brain |
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most common in young children
during NREM stage |
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