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| The focus of consciousness on a particular stimulus. |
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| Material that is not in awareness but can be brought into awareness by focusing one's attention. |
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| Ideas and feelings that are not available to awareness. |
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| The unconscious ejection of anxiety-evoking ideas, impulses, or images from awareness. |
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| The deliberate, or conscious, placing of certain ideas, impulses, or images out of awareness. |
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| Bodily processes such as growing hair, of which we cannot become conscious. (Hair is growing but not directly experiencing) |
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| A cycle that is connected with the 24-hour period of the earth's rotation. |
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| Rapid low-amplitude brain waves that have been linked to feelings of relaxation. |
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| Nonrapid Eye Movement Sleep (NREM) |
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| Rapid Eye Movement Sleep (REM) |
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| A stage of sleep characterized by rapid eye movement, which have been linked to dreaming. |
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| Slow brain waves produced during the hypnagogic state. |
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| Strong, slow brain waves usually emitted during 4 sleep. |
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| A "sleep attack" in which a person falls asleep suddenly and irresistibly. |
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| Temporary absence or cessation of breathing. |
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| Frightening dreamlike experiences that occur during the deepest stage of NREM sleep; nightmares, in contrast, occur during REM sleep. |
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| A condition in which people are highly suggestible and behave as though they are in a trance. |
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| An instrument that measures muscle tension. |
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| A group of narcotics that provide a euphoric rush and depress the nervous system. |
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| Drugs used to relieve pain and induce sleep. The term is usually reserved for opiates. |
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| An addictive depressant used to relieve anxiety or induce sleep. |
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| A form of learning in which a neutral stimulus comes to evoke the response usually evoked by another stimulus by being paired repeatedly with the other stimulus. |
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| An environmental condition that elicits a response. |
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| Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS) |
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| A stimulus that elicits an unconditioned response. |
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| Unconditioned Response (UCR) |
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| A natural, usually unvarying response elicited by a stimulus without learning or conditioning. |
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| Conditioned Stimulus (CS) |
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| A previously neutral stimulus that, after repeated association with an unconditioned stimulus, elicits the response elicited by the unconditioned stimulus. |
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| Conditioned Response (CR) |
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| A response that becomes associated with a previously unrelated stimulus as a result of pairing the stimulus with another stimulus with another stimulus that normally elicits the response. |
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| An experimental procedure in which stimuli lose their ability to evoke learned responses because the events hat had followed the stimuli no longer occur. |
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| The recurrence of an extinguished response as a function of the passage of time. |
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| The tendency for a conditioned response to be evoked by stimuli that are similar to the stimulus to which the response was conditioned. |
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| Voluntary responses that are reinforced. |
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| A form of learning in which an organism learns to engage in behavior because it is reinforced. |
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| Memory that clearly and distinctly expresses specific information. |
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| Memories of events experienced by a person or that take place in the person's presence. |
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| General knowledge, as opposed to episodic memory. |
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| Memory that is suggested but not plainly expressed, as illustrated in the things that people do but do not state clearly. |
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| Memory for past events, activities, and learning experiences, as shown by episodic and semantic memories. |
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| Memory to perform an act in the future, as at a certain time or when a certain event occurs. |
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| The sensory register that briefly holds mental representations of auditory stimuli. |
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| The type or stage of memory that can hold information for up to a minute or so after the trace of the stimulus decays. |
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