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consciousness

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the individual awareness of your unique thoughts, memories, feelings, sensations, and environments

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non conscious level

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any mental process that goes on in which the individual is unaware (driving to school and not thinking about it)

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preconscious level

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latent parts of the brain that are readily available to the conscious mind, although not currently in use

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someone may forget to buy apples during a grocery trip until they see a sign for half off apples

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preconscious level

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subconscious level

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part of our consciousness that we are unaware of, information that we are not actively aware of in the moment / reactions and actions we realized when we think of it

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unconscious level

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consists of deeper mental processes not readily available to the conscious mind

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cognitive neuroscience

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the scientific field that is concerned with the study of the biological processes and aspects that underlie cognition

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dual processing

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when making decisions we use two different systems of thinking, our gut instincts and deliberate logical thinking

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selective attention

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focusing on something in particular while simultaneously ignoring distractions

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cocktail party effect

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the ability to focus one’s attention on a particular stimuli while filtering out a range of other stimuli

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inattentional blindness

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the failure to notice a fully visible but unexpected object because attention was engaged on another task

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change blindness

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a perceptual phenomenon that occurs when a change in a visual stimulus is introduced and the overseer doesn’t notice it

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observers often fail to notice major differences introduced into an image while it flickers on and off again

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change blindness

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choice blindness

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the failure to recall a choice immediately after we have made that choice

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if you go to an ice cream store, order a chocolate cone, and then accept a strawberry cone without noticing

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choice blindness

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suprachiasmatic nucleus

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a small region of the hypothalamus in the brain, it function as a master circadian pacemaker controlling the timing of the sleep-wake cycle

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melatonin

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a hormone that your brain produces in response to darkness, it helps with circadian rhythms (internal clock) and with sleep

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REM sleep

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the phase of sleep in which most dreams occur, during this sleep a person’s brain activity, breathing, heart rate, and blood pressure increases

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during this sleeping phase is where vivid dreaming occurs

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REM sleep

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alpha waves

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a medium frequency pattern of brain activity associated with restful and mediative states

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hypnagogic hallucinations

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vivid visual, auditory perceptions like sleep paralysis occur during the transitions between wakefulness and REM sleep

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this occurs during the transitions between wakefulness and REM sleep

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hypnagogic hallucinations

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sleep spindles

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a specific pattern of brainwaves that occurs during sleep

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delta waves

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the slowest recorded brainwaves in human beings. We increase delta waves in order to decrease our awareness of the physical world

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paradoxical sleep

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involves seemingly contradictory states of an active mind and a sleeping body (irregular and rapid breathing, rapid heart rate, muscular atonia)

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insomnia

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a sleep disorder in which you have trouble falling / and or staying asleep

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narcolepsy

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a chronic neurological disorder that affects the brain’s activity to control sleep-wake cycles

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this sleeping disorder make people feel very drowsy during the day, they find it hard to stay awake for long periods of time, and suddenly fall asleep

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narcolepsy

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sleep apnea

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a common disorder that causes your breathing to stop or get very shallow during sleep

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night terrors

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a sleep disorder in which a person quickly awakens from sleep in a terrified state

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somnambulism

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involves getting up and waling around while in a state of sleep

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manifest content

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the dream that the conscious individual remembers experiencing

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latent content

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the symbolic meaning of a dream that lies behind the literal content of the dream

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physiological function theory

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suggests that dreams are pretty much meaningless and that we dream to preserve neural pathways

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activation synthesis theory

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a neurobiological approach to explain why humans have dreams

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“a dream is the cerebral cortex processing nerve impulses being sent from the body to the brainstem into something that makes sense”

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activation synthesis theory

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REM rebound

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a phenomenon in which a person temporarily receives more REM sleep than they normally would

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lucid dreaming

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the experience of achieving conscious awareness of dreaming while still asleep

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hypnotic suggestibility

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the degree to which a participant responds to hypnotic suggestions

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every day you walk 30 minutes and after you feel energized and proud of yourself

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hypnotic suggestibility

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posthypnotic suggestion

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a suggestion made to a person during hypnosis that they act out after the hypnotic trance

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posthypnotic amnesia

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subject’s difficulty in remembering after hypnosis, the events and experiences that happened while they were hypnotized

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hypnotic analgesia

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reduced sensitivity to pain under hypnotic suggestion

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social influence / role theory

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how people are more likely to do whatever they see as being the norm

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“people have a tendency to change their behavior according to those around them, and those nearby have a stronger effect”

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social influence / role theory

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divided consciousness theory

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a psychological state in which one’s consciousness is split into distinct components, possibly during hypnosis

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state theory

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through the actions of the hypnotist the inducing of a “trance” the unconscious mind responds to suggestion

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