Mod 7 - 10 Vocabs / Term

Question 1

Consciousness

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Our awareness of ourselves and our environment

Question 2

Cognitive Neuroscience

Answer 2

The interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition (including perception, thinking, memory, and language)

Question 3

Dual Processing

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The principle that information is often simultaneously processed on separate consciousness.

Question 4

Selective Attention

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The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus.

Question 5

Inattentional Blindness

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Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere.

Question 6

Change Blindness

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Failing to notice changes in the environment

Question 7

Circadian rhythm

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The biological clock; regular bodily rhythms (temperature and wakefulness) that occur on a 24-hrs cycle.

Question 8

REM sleep

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Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep, a recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur. Also known as paradoxical sleep, because the muscles are relaxed but other body system are active.

Question 9

Alpha waves

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The relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state.

Question 10

Sleep

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Periodic, natural, reversible loss of consciousness; distinct from the unconsciousness as the result of a coma or hibernation.

Question 11

Hallucination

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False sensory experience, such as seeing something in the absence of an external stimulus.

Question 12

Delta waves

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The large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep.

Question 13

Insomnia

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The recurring problems in falling or staying asleep.

Question 14

Narcolepsy

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A sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks. The sufferer may lapse directly into REM sleep.

Question 15

Sleep Apnea

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A sleep disorder characterized by temporary cessations of breathing during sleep and repeated momentary awakenings.

Question 16

Night Terrors

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A sleep disorder characterized by high arousal and an appearance of being terrified; unlike Nightmare, night terror occurs during stage 4 of sleep, within 2 or 3 hrs of falling asleep, and is seldom remembered.

Question 17

Dream

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A sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping person’s mind. Dreams are notable for their hallucinatory imagery, discontinuities, and incongruities, and for the dreamer’s delusional acceptance of the content and later difficulties remembering it.

Question 18

Manifest Content

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Freudian’s term for the storyline of the dream

Question 19

Latent Content

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Freudian’s term for the underlying meaning of the dream.

Question 20

REM rebound

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The tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM Sleep deprivation (created by repeated awakenings during REM Sleep)

Question 21

Hypnosis

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A social interaction in which one person (the hypnotist) suggests to another person (subject) that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviours will spontaneously occur.

Question 22

Posthypnotic Suggestion

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A suggestion, made during a hypnosis session, to be carried out after the subject is no longer hypnotized; used by clinicians to help control undesired symptoms and behaviours.

Question 23

Dissociation

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A split in consciousness which allows some thoughts and behaviours to simultaneously occurs

Question 24

Psychoactive Drugs

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A chemical substance that altered perception and moods.

Question 25

Tolerance

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The diminishing effect with regular use of the same dose of drugs, requiring the user to use a larger and larger amount of drugs to achieve its effect.

Question 26

Withdrawal

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The discomfort and distress that follow discontinuing the use of addictive drugs.

Question 27

Physical Dependence

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A physiological need for a drug marked by unpleasant withdrawal symptoms when the drug is discontinued

Question 28

Psychological Dependence

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A psychological need to use a drug, such as to relieve negative emotions

Question 29

Addiction

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Compulsive drug craving and use, despite adverse consequences.

Question 30

Depressants

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Drugs that reduce neural activity and slow body functions.

Question 31

Barbiturates

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Drugs that depress the activity of the central nervous system, reducing anxiety but impairing memory and judgments.

Question 32

Opiates

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Opium and its synthetic forms such as morphine or heroin; they depress neural activity, and temporarily lessen pain and anxiety.

Question 33

Stimulants

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Drugs such as caffeine excite neural activity and speed up body function.

Question 34

Amphetamine

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Drugs that stimulate body activity, causing speeded up body function, associating with energy and mood change.

Question 35

Methamphetamine

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A powerfully addictive drug that stimulates the central body functions and speeds up body function, associating with energy and mood change; over time, it will cause a reduction in dopamine baseline.

Question 36

Ectacsy aka Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MMDA)

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A synthetic stimulant and a mild hallucinogen. Produces euphoria and social intimacy, but with short-term health risks and long-term harm to serotonin-producing neurons and mood and recognition.

Question 37

Hallucinogen

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psychedelic (“mind-manifesting”) drug, such as LSD, that distort perception and evoke sensory images in the absence of sensory input.

Question 38

LSD

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A powerful hallucinogenic drug; also known as acid (lysergic acid diethylamide)

Question 39

THC

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The major active ingredient in Marijuana; triggers various effects including mild hallucination.