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| Rapid eye movement sleep, a recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur. Muscles are relaxed, but other body systems are active |
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| a sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks. The suffere may lapse directly into REM sleep, often at inopportune times |
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| manifest vs latent dream content (know the contents of dreams) |
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manifest = remembered story line of a dream
latent = underlying meaning of a dream |
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| The principle that information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks |
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| Alpha brain waves vs Delta brain waves |
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Alpha = relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state
Delta = The large, slow brain waves associated w/ deep sleep |
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| A social interaction in which one person suggests to another that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur (p109) |
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1. hypnosis is a social phenomenon (much like when actors get into a role, subjects act to the role of being hypnotized)
2. Hypnosis is a divided consciousness where there are split levels of consciousness. |
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| Psychological effects of Alcohol and Marijuana (be able to correlate them to adolescent drug usage) |
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Alcohol - slowed neural processing, memory disruption, reduced self-awareness and self-control, expectancy effects.
Marijuana - a mild hallucinogen, amplifying sensitivity to colors, sounds, tastes, and smells. relaxes, disinhibits, and produces an euphoric high. Impair motor coordination, perceptual skills, and reaction times. |
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| Regularly sleeping well vs chronic sleep deprivation |
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| sleep protects, helps us recuperate, restore and rebuild our fading memories, feeds creative thinking, and supports growth. |
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| influences that create use of consciousness-altering substances |
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| Some people are biologically vulnerable to drugs and cultural influences to use drugs |
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| Various effects of alcohol on genders |
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| women get drunker faster, women have a increased rate of lung, brain, and liver damage, 79% of unwanted sexual experiences involved alcohol. |
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| Sensory register (with regards to memory) |
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| The immediate, very brief recording of sensory information in the memory system |
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| a few items both noticed and encoded |
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| some items are altered or lost |
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| Rehearsal (w/ regards to memory) |
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| repeat information to maintain it in our brain |
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| our tendency to recall best the last and first items in a list |
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| organizing items into familiar, manageable units; often occurs automatically |
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| recall vs recognition memory |
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recall = a measure of memory in which the person must retrieve information learned earlier, as on a fill-in-the-blank test
recognition = a measure of memory in which the person need only identify items previously learned, as on a multiple-choice test |
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| the tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with ones's current good or bad mood |
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| we recall experiences more easily when we are in the state under which we had the initial experience (drunk, high, etc.) |
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| HOMES - Heron, Ontario, Michigan, Eire, Superior |
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| Long-term potentiation - an increase in a cells firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation. Believed to be a neural basis for learning and memory. |
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| Understand Distributed practice |
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| spreading studying over the course of time instead of cramming the night before the test (better than cramming) |
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| study repeatedly, make the material meaningful, activate retrieval cues, use mnemonic devices, minimize interferences, sleep more, test your own knowledge, both to rehearse it and to find out what you don't yet know |
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