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| The level at which mental activities that people are normally aware of occur |
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| Mental activity that is inaccessible to conscious awareness |
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| Not currently conscious but of which we can easily become conscious |
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| Influences consciousness but is not conscious. |
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Slow wave: stages 3 and 4, accompanied by slow, deep breathing.
REM sleep: Rapid Eye movement, resemble the waking state. |
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| Altered state of consciousness |
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| Changes in mental processes are extensive enough that a person or others notice significant differences in psychological and behavioral functioning. |
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| The characteristics of consciousness at any particular moment. |
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| Feel tired during the day but cant sleep at night. |
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| daytime sleep disorder where a person switches abruptly from an active waking state into several minutes of REM sleep |
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| People briefly but repeatedly stop breathing during the night. |
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| Sudden infant death syndrome. A sleeping baby stops breathing and suffocates. |
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| a person does not lose muscle tone during REM sleep, allowing the person to act out dreams. |
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| A cycle that repeats about once a day, such as waking and sleeping. |
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| hypnosis is an altered state of consciousness |
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| hypnotized people act in accordance with a special social role that provides a socially acceptable reason to follow the hypnotist's suggestions. |
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| hypnosis is a socially agreed-upon opportunity to display one's ability to let mental functions become dissociated. |
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| feature of blood vessels supplying the brain that allows only certain substances to leave the blood and interact with brain tissue. |
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agonist: drug that mimics the effects of the neurotransmitter that normally binds to a neural receptor.
antagonist: drug that binds to a receptor and prevents the normal nt from binding. |
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| alcohol, barbituates, GHB |
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| amphetamines, cocaine, caffeine, nicotine, MDMA |
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