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| The level at which mental activities that people are normally aware of occur. |
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| A level of mental activity that is inaccessible to conscious awareness. |
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| A level of mental activity that is not currently conscious, but of which we can easily become conscious. |
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| A level of mental activity that influences consciousness, but is not conscious. Also known as the subconscious. |
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| A condition in which a person has trouble forming new memories but retains old memories. |
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| Memory loss of information acquired prior to a traumatic incident |
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| EEG (Electroencephalograph) |
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| Recording device that monitors muscle movement and muscle tension; electrical activity during sleep |
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| Recording device to measure eye movements in various sleep stages |
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| Recording device that monitors heart rate |
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| 2-5 mins. You experience hallucinations. The alpha waves are replaced by theta waves. Body temp. falls |
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| 20 mins. Your brain shows specific bursts of activity called sleep spindles and sleep talking could start now or any stage after this. |
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| 15 mins. Your brain starts showing large and slow delta waves at which you are hard to wake. |
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| 15 mins. You are now in deep sleep and the brain shows even more delta waves. Bed-wetting and sleep-walking can occur. The body is totally limp. |
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| AKA paradoxical sleep. Cycle happens on average 4 to 6 times a night. Average length is about 90 mins for adults. |
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| Sigmund Freud's interp on dreams |
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| Dreams are essentially the fulfillment of wishes |
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| The actual dream; facts, details |
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| The hidden part of the dream |
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| A Freudian theory that states emotionally charged dreams have a higher percentage to be remembered because of the nature. |
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| A dream is harder to remember due to the events that happen after the dream takes place |
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| Dreaming in which a peson is aware of dreaming; even though they are sleep |
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| Activation-synthesis hypothesis |
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| The idea that dreams represent a blending of thoughts that are produced by spontaneous neural activation during the REM period |
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| Information-Processing theory |
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| Stress during the day will increase the number and intensity of dreams during the night |
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| Brief 2 to 5 second bursts of sleep that intrude on wakefulness; usually triggered by sleep deprivation |
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| When your body will make up for sleep deprivation by making REM longer |
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A person has difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep. Treatment: pills/hypnosis/relazation techniques
Cause: Stress, other medication, depression, anxiety |
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| A daytime disorder in which a person switches abruptly from an active, often emotional waking state into several minutes of REM sleep. Treatment: pills/planned naps. Cause: lack of the neurotransmitter hypocretin/genetic |
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| 4 Characteristics of Narcolepsy |
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1. sleep attacks
2. cataplexy
3. sleep paralysis
4. auditory/visual hallucinations before attack |
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A sleep disorder in which hpeople briefly, but repeatedly, stop breathing during the night.
Treatment: weight loss, nasal mask, psychological help. Cause: obesity, genetic predisposition, compressed windpipe |
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| Sudden Infant Death Syndrome |
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During sleep infants stop breathing and die. Usually strikes from 2-4 months, 2 out of every 1000 in the US
Treatment: none. Cause: intense cigarette smoke, inability to wake from sleep, airway becomes blocked, sleeping positions |
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Frightening dreams that take place during REM sleep. Treamtment: imagery therapy, psychological help
Cause: most common PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) |
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Horrific dreams that cause rapid awakening form stage 3 or 4 sleep and intense fear up to 30 mins.
Treatment: pills, psychological help |
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| Sleepwalking (somnambulism) |
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| Moblie person while sleeping in stage 4. Treatment: pills, conditioning drills |
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| A sleep disorder in which there is no loss of muscle tone during REM sleep, allowing the person to act out their dreams. Treatment: pills, very effective Cause: narcolepsy, stress |
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| A cycle, such as waking and sleeping, that repeats about once a day. Linked to signals such as light and day. Tehse cycles can continue to run without time cues. Include most endocrine activity |
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| Traveling across time zones. Changing from day to night shifts. Suprachiasmatic nuclei; hypothalamus |
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| Sleeplike state that a person enters with the aid of another person |
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| REsponse to suggestion given under hypnosis after emerging from the state |
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| Complete and total forgetting of the session |
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| Hypnosis is an altered state of consciousness. Reducing pain or a physical illness |
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| A blend of the role and state theories. Almost a split of consciousness. Hypnosis is a socially agreed upon oportunity to display one's ability to let mental functions become dissociated |
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| During hypnosis part of consciousness is unaffected by the hypnosis procedure and appears to monitor unconscious operation |
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| Some drugs are similar enough to a particular neurotransmitter to fool its receptors, they bind to the receptor and mimic the effects of the normal neurotransmitter |
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| Drugs that are similar enough to a neurotransmitter to occupy its receptors but cannont mimic its effects; they bind to a receptor and prevent the normal neurotransmitter from binding |
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