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| Activation systehsis theory of dreams |
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| The idea that dreaming represents the random and meaningless activity of nerve cells in the brain. The pons sends random nerve impulses to the cortex; in turn the cortex tries to make sense of these signals by creating the feelings, imagined movements, perceptions, changing scenes, and meaningless images that we define as dreams. |
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| a problem involving addiction to alcohol |
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| altered states of conciousness |
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| an awareness differing from normal conciousness; such awareness may be produced by using any number of procedures. |
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| ascending reticular activating system |
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| the afferent fibers running through the reticular formation that influence physiological arousal. |
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| activities that require little awareness, take minimal attention, and do not interfere with other ongoing activities. |
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| periodic fluctuations in physiological functioning. |
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| the hemp plant from which marijuana, hashish, and THC, are derived. |
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| the 24 hour biological cycles found in humans and many other species. |
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| an individual's different levels of awareness of his or her thoughts and feelings. Creating images in the mind, following thought proccesed, having unique, emotional experiences are all part of conciousness. |
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| activities that require full awareness, alterness, and concentration to reach some goal. Because of the strongly focused attention they require, controlled processes often interfere with other ongoing activities. |
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| an activity that requires a low level of awareness, often occurs during automatic processes, and involves fantasizing or dreaming while awake. |
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| a spitting off of mental processes into two separate, simultaneous streams of awareness. |
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| a unique state of conciousness in which we are asleep but we experience a variety of images, often in color. people blind from birth have only auditory or tactile dreams, while sighted people have dreams with astonishing visual, auditory, and tactile images. |
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| a device that monitors the electrical activity of the brian over time by means of recording electrodes attached to the surface of the scalp |
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| a device that records muscular activity and tension |
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| a diverse group of drugs that have powerful affects on mental and emotional functioning, marked most prominently by distortions in sensory and perceptual experiences. |
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| a systematic procedure that typically produces a heightened state of suggestibility. |
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| chronic problems in getting adequete sleep. |
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| a condition in which travelers' internal circadian rhythm is out of synchrony with the external clock time at their new location. Will experience fatigue disorientation, lack of concentration and reduced congitive skills. one day for each hour of difference in recovery. |
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| according to freud the hidden or diguised meanings of the events in a dream |
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| dreams in which people can think clearly about the circumstances of waking life and the fact that they are draeming, yet they remain asleep in the midst of a vivid dream. |
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| according to freud the plot of a dream at a surface level. |
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| a family of mental exerceises in which a concious attempt is made to focus attention in a nonanalytical way. |
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| a hormone secreted by the pineal gland, an oval group of in the center of the human brain. Melatonin secretion, controlled by the suprachiasmatic nucleus, increases with darkness and decreases with light, thus, it plays a role in the rgulation of circadian rhythms and in promoting sleep. |
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| a stimulant similar to amphetamines in both its chemical makeup and its physical and psychological effects. It causes marked increases in blood pressure and heart aand feelings of enhanced mood, alterness, and energy. Instantaneous high, highly addictive. |
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| you know what narcolepsy is. |
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| drugs derived from opium that are capable of releaving pain |
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| abrupt awakenings from NREM sleep accompanied by intense autonomic arousal and feelings of panic. |
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| I HAVE NIGHTMARES>>>>>>>>>>>AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH |
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| sleep stage 1 through 4 which are marked by an absense of rapid eye movement, relatively little dreaming and varied eeg activity. |
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| the condition that exists when a person must continue to take a drug to avoid withdrawl illness |
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| chemical substances that modify mental, emotional, or behavioral functioning |
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| the condition that exists when a person must continue to take a drug in order to satisfy intense mental and emotional craving for the drug |
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| a deep stage of sleep marked by rapid eye movements, high frequency brain waves, and dreaming. |
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| sleep iducing drugs that tend to decrease central nervous system activiation and behavioral activity |
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| something that I'm not getting tonight |
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| a disorder characterized by frequent reflexive gasping for air that awakens a person and disrupts sleep. |
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| sleep stages 2 and 4, during which low frequency delta waves become prominent in EEG recordings |
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| drugs that tend to increase CNS activation and behavioral activity |
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| a sophisticated biological clock located in the hypothalamus that regulates a number of circadian rhythms, including the sleep wake cycle. Suprachiasmatic cells are highly responsive to changes in light. |
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| a progressive decrease in a person's responsiveness to a drug |
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| Ventrolateral preoptic nucleus |
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| a group of cells in the hypothalamus that act like a master-switch for sleep. Turned on, the VPN secretes a neurotransmitter that turns off areas that keep the brain awake; turned off, certain brain areas become more active and we wake up. |
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