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| The person's subject experience of the world and the mind. |
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| (after philsopher Rene Descartes) A mental screen or stage on which things appear to be presented for viewing by the mind's eye. |
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| How things seem to the conscious person. |
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| The fundamental difficulty we have in percieving the consciousness of others. |
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| The issue of how the mind is related to the brain and body. |
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| A taskin in which people wearing headphones hear different messages presented to each ear. |
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| Cocktail party phenomenon |
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| A phenomenon in which people tune in one message even while they filter out others nearby. |
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| A low-level kind of sensory awareness and responsiveness that occurs when the mind inputs sensations and may output behavior. |
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| Consciousness in which you know and are able to report your mental state. |
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| A distinct level of consciousness in which the person's attentions is drawn to the self as an object. |
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| The attempt to change conscious states of mind. |
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| The conscious avoidance of a thought. |
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| Rebound effect of thought suppression |
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| The tendency of a thought to return to consciousness with greater frequency following suppression. |
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| Ironic processes of mental control |
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| Mental processes that can produce ironic errors because monitoring for errors can itself produce them. |
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| An active system encompassing a lifetime of hidden memories, the person's deepest instincts and desires, and the person's inner struggle to control these forces. |
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| A mental process that removes unacceptable though and memories from consciousness. |
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| The mental processes that give rise to the person's thoughts, choices, emotions, and behavior even though they are not experienced by the person. |
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| A thought or behavior that is influenced by stimuli that a person cannot consciously report perceiving. |
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| Altered states of consciousness |
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| Forms of experience that depart from the normal subjective experience of the world and the mind. |
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| A naturally 24-hour cycle. |
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| A stage of characterized by rapid eye movements and a high level of brain activity. |
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An instrument that measures eye movements.
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| Difficulty in falling asleep or staying asleep. |
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| A disorder in which the person stops breathing for brief periods while asleep. |
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| (sleepwalking) Occurs when the person arises and walks around while sleeping. |
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| A disorder in which sudden sleep attacks occur in the middle of waking activites. |
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| The experience of waking up unable to move. |
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| (or sleep terrors) Abrupt awakenings with panic and intense emotional arousal. |
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| A dream's apparent topic or superficial meaning. |
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| A dream's true underlying meaning. |
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| Activation-synthesis model |
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| The theory that dreams are produced when the brain attempts to make sense of activations that occur randomly during sleep. |
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| A chemical that influences consciousness or behavior by altering the brain's chemical message system. |
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| The tendency for larger doses of a drug to be required over time to achieve the same effect. |
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| Substances that reduce the activity of the central nervous system. |
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| The idea that alcohol effects can be produced by people's epectations of how alcohol will influence them in particular situations. |
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| A study design in which behabior is observed following the presence of absence of an actual stimulus and also following the presence or absence of a placebo stimulus. |
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| A condition that results when alcohol hampers attention, leading people to resond in simple ways to complex situations. |
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| Substances that excite the central nervous system, heightening arousal and activity levels. |
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| Highly addictive drugs derived from opium that relieve pain. |
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| A response to high-risk behaviors that focuses on reducing the harm such behaviors have on people's lives. |
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| Endorphins or endogenous opiates |
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| Neurotransmitters that have a similar structure to opiates and that appear to play a role in how the brain copes internally with pain and stress. |
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| Drugs that alter sensation and perception and often cause visual and auditory hallucinations. |
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| The leaves and buds of the hemp plant. |
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| An altered state of consciousness characterized by suggestability and the feeling that one's actions are occuring involuntarily. |
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| The failure to retrieve memories following hypnotic suggestions to forget. |
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| The reduction of pain through hypnosis in people who are suceptible to hypnosis. |
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| The practice of international contemplation. |
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