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CHAPTER 4 Vocab Flashcards

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1
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A variety of beverages containing ethyl alcohol

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Alcohol

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The afferent fibers running through the reticular formation that influences physiological arousal

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Ascending reticular activating system

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Periodic fluctuations in physiological functioning

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Biological rhythms

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4
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The hemp plant from which marijuana, hashish, and THC are derived

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Cannabis

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The 24-hour biological cycles found in humans and many other species

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Circadian rhythms

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A hypothetical process involving the gradual conversion of information into durable memory codes stored in long-term memory

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Consolidation

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A splitting of of mental processes into two separate, simultaneous streams of awareness

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Dissociation

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A device that monitors the electrical activity of the brain over time by means of recording electrodes attached to the surface of the scalp

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Electroencephalograph

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A device that records muscular activity and tension

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Electromyograph

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A device that records eye movements

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Electrooculograph

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The entire family of internally produced chemicals that resemble opiates in structure and effects

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Endorphins

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A diverse group of drugs that have powerful effects on mental and emotional functioning, marked most prominently by distortions in sensory and perceptual experience

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Hallucinogens

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A systematic procedure that typically produces a heightened state of suggestibility

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Hypnosis

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Chronic problems in getting adequate sleep

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Insomnia

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According to Freud, the hidden or disguised meaning of the events in a dream

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Latent content

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A relatively durable change in behavior or knowledge that is due to experience

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Learing

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Dreams in which people can think clearly about the circumstances of waking life and the fact that they are dreaming yet they remain asleep in the midst of a vivid dream

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Lucid Dreaming

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According to Freud, the plot of a dream at a surface level

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Manifest content

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A compound drug related to both amphetamines and hallucinogens, especially mescaline, commonly called “ecstasy “

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MDMA

20
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A family of mental exercises in which a conscious attempt is made to focus attention in a nonanalytical way

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Meditation

21
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A disease marked by sudden and irresistible onsets of sleep during normal waking periods

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Narcolepsy

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Drugs derived from opium that are capable of relieving pain

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Narcotics

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Abrupt awakenings from NREM sleep accompanied by intense automonic arousal and feelings of panic

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Night terrors

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Anxiety-arousing dreams that lead to awakening, usually from REM sleep

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Nightmares

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Sleep stages 1 through 4 which are marked by an absence of rapid eye movements, relatively little dreaming, and varied EEG activity

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Non-REM sleep

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Drugs derived from opium that are capable of relieving pain

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Opiates

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The condition that exists when a person must continue to take a drug to avoid withdrawal illness

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Physical dependence

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Teh fact that a subjects’ expectations can lead them to experience some change even though they receive an empty, fake, or ineffectual treatment

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Placebo effects

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Chemical substances that modify metal, emotional, or behavior functioning

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Psychoactive drugs

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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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Psychological dependence

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A deep stage of sleep marked by rapid eye movements, high frequency brain waves, and dreaming

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REM sleep

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The process in which neurotransmitters are sponged up from the synaptic cleft by the presynaptiic membrane

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Reuptake

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Sleep-inducing drugs that tend to decrease central nervous system activation and behavioral activity

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Sedatives

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A sleep disorder characterized by frequent reflexive gasping for air that awakens a person and disrupts sleep

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Sleep apnea

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Sleep stages three and four during which low-frequency delta waves become prominent in EEG recordings

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Slow-wave sleep (SWS)

36
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Arising and wandering about while remaining asleep

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Somnambulism

37
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Drugs that tend to increase central nervous system activation and behavioral activity

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Stimulants

38
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A progressive decrease in a person’s responsiveness to a drug

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Tolerance

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