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| State of being unable to move just after falling asleep or right before waking up |
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| Our subjective experience of the world, our bodies, and our mental perspectives |
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| Cyclical changes that occur on a roghly 24-hour basis in many biological processes |
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| Term for suprachiasmatic nucleu (SCN) in the hypothalamus that's responsible for controlling our levels of alertness |
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| Scrambled, bizarre, and dreamlike images that flit in and out of conciousness (sleep stage 1) |
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Sleep Spindles
K-complexes on occasion (sharply rising and falling waves) |
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| Stage of sleep during whcih the brain is most active and during which vivid dreaming most often occurs |
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| Experience of becoming aware that one is dreaming |
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| Difficulty falling and staying asleep |
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| Disorder characterized by the rapid and often unexpected onset of sleep |
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| Complete loss of muscle tone (experienced by narcoleptic) |
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| Hormone that plays a key role in triggering sudden attacks of sleepiness |
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| Disorder caused by a blockage of the airway during sleep, resulting in daytime fatigue |
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| Sudden waking episodes characterized by screaming, perspiring, and confusion followed by a return to a deep sleep |
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| Walking while fully asleep |
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| Activation-Synthesis Theory |
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| Theory that dreams reflect inputs from brain activation originating in the pons which the forebrain then attempts to weave into a story |
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| Damage to the forebrain can eliminate dreams entirely |
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| Theory that dreams are a meaningful product of our cognitive capacities, which shape what we dream about |
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| Scientists agree that... (2) |
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Acetylcholine turns on REM sleep
The forebrain plays an important role in dreams |
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| Realistic perceptual experiences in the absence of any external stimuli (brought about by oxygen/sensory deprivation) |
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| Out-of-body Experience (OBE) |
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| Sense of our conciousness leaving our body |
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| Near-death Experiences (NDE) |
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| Out-of-body experience reported by people who've nearly died or thought they were going to die |
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| Feeling of reliving an experience that's new |
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| Feelings of unity or oneness with the world, often wit hstorng spiritual overtones |
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| Set of techniques that provides people with suggestions for alterations in their perceptions, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors |
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| Past life regression therapy |
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| Therapeutic approach that hypnotizes and supposedly age-regresses patients to a previous life to identify the source of a present day problem |
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| Approach to explaining hypnosis based on people's attitiudes, beliefs, and expectations |
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| Approach to explaining hypnosis based on a separation between personality functions that are normally well integrated |
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| Substance that contains chemicals similar to those found naturally in our brains that alter conciousness by changing chemical processes in neurons |
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| Reduction in the effect of a drug as a result of repeated use, requiring users to consume greater quantitites to achieve the same effect |
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| Unpleasant effects of reducing or stopping consumption of a drug that users had consumed habitually |
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| Dependence on a drug that occurs when people continue to take it to avoid withdrawal symptoms |
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| Dependence on a drug that occurs when continued use of the drug is motivated by intense cravings |
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| Drug that exerts a calming effect |
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| Drug that exerts a sleeping-induced effect |
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| Drug that increases activity in the central nervous system, including heart rate, respiration, and blood pressure |
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| Drug that relieves pain and induces sleep |
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| Causing dramatic alterations of perception, mood, and thought |
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Alcohol
Decreased activity of the central nervous system (initial high followed by sleepiness) |
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Tobacco, Cocaine, Amphetamines, Methamphetamine
Increased activity of the central nervous system (sense of alertness) |
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Heroin, Morphine, Codeine
Sense of euphoria, decreased pain |
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Marijuana, LSD, Ecstasy
Dramatically altered preception, mood, and thoughts |
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| Most powerful stimulant, used to be an ingredient in Coca-Cola |
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