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| Altered States of Consciousness |
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| Changes in awareness produced by sleep, mediation, hypnosis, and drugs |
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| Everything of which we are aware at any given time-our toughts, feelings, sendations, and external environment |
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| within each 24-hour period, the regular fluctuation from high to low points of certain bodily functions and behaviors |
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Non Rapid Eye Movement
which consists of four sleep stages and is chracterized by slow regular aspiration and heart rate, little body movement, and blood pressure and brain activity that are at their 24-hour low points |
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Rapid Eye Movement
A type of sleep chracterized by rapid eye movements, paralysis or large muscles, fast and irrigular heart and respiration rates, increaed brain-wave activity, and vivid dreams |
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| A period of sleep lasting about 90 minutes and including one or more stages of NREM stages of NREM sleep, followed by REM sleep |
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| light sleep, few minutes, Irregular wave, some of which are alpha waves |
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| Characterizied by alternating short periods of calm and flashes of intense activtiy |
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| Beginning of slow-wave sleep (or deep sleep) Delta waves increase |
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| When delta waves reach 50% (deepest sleep from they are the hardest to awaken) |
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| Restorative theory of sleep |
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| function of sleep is to restore body and mind |
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| Circadian theory of sleep |
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| sleep evoloved to keep humans out of harm's way during he night; also known as the evolutionary theory |
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| occuring almost continously duringeach REM period and having story-live quality; typically more vivid, visual, and emotional than NREM dreams |
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| occuring during NREM sleep that is typically less frequent and memorable than REM dreams are |
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| Freud's term for content of dream as recalled by the dreamer |
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| sleep disturbances in which behaviors and physilogical states that normally take place only in the waking state occur while a person is sleeping |
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| an incurable sleep disorder chracterized by excessive daytime sleepiness and uncontrollable attacks ofREM sleep |
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| sleep disorder characterized by periods during sleepi when breathing stops and the individual must awakn briefly in order to breathe |
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| sleep disorder characterized b difficulty falling or staying asleep, by aking too early, or by sleep that is light, restless, or poor quality |
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(concentrative)
group of techniques that involved focusing attention on an object, word, one's breathing, or one's body movements in an effort to block all distractions, to enhance well-being, and to achieve an altered state of consciousness |
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| a procedure through which one person, the hypotist, uses to power suggestion to induce changes in thoughts, feelings, sensations, perceptions, orbehavior in another person, the subject |
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| any substance that alters mood, perception, or thought; called a controlled substance if approved for medical use |
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| continued use of a substance after several episodes in which use of the substance has negatively affected an individual's work, education, and social relationships |
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| a condition in which the user becomes progressively less affected by the drug and must take increasingly larger doses to maintain the same effect or high |
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| a compulsive pattern of drug use in which the user develops a drug olerance coupled with unpleasant withdrawal symptoms when the drug use is discounted |
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| physical and psychological symptoms that occur when a regularly used drug is discontinued and that terminate when the drug is taken again |
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| a category of drugs that speed up activity in the CNS, suppress appetite, and can cause a person to feel more awake, alert, and energetic; also called "uppers" |
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| a category of drugs hat decreasre acitivty in the central nervous system, slow down bodily functuinsm and reduce sensitivity to outside stimulation; also called "downers." |
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| a class of depressant drugs derived from the opium poppy that produce both pain-relieving and calming effects |
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| a category of drugs that can alter and distort perceptions of time and space, alter mood, produce feelings of unreality, and cause hallucinations; also called psychedelics |
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