Test 4 Flashcards
Post hypnotic suggestion?
A hypnotic person told to perform a task after they are done
Dissociation?
Splitting the conscious into two streams of mental activity.
What technique of hypnosis might improve confidence?
Post-hypnotic suggestion
Meditation
Sustained concentration technique that focuses attention and heightens awareness.
Focused attention techniques- awareness on a visable image/object, mantra
Open monitoring techniques- monitoring the content experience from moment to moment, mindfulness
Hypnosis?
Cooperative social interaction of the hypnotized responding to the hypnotist, remaining aware of themselves and their surroundings
What positive things come out of meditation?
Improved concentration, attention, emotion control, well being, and reduces stress.
Psychoactive drug
Substance that alters mood, thinking, sensation, or perception
Addiction
Person feels psychologically or physically compelled to take a drug
Withdrawals
Unpleasant physical reactions, intense drug cravings that happen when a person abstains from a regular use drug
Drug tolerance?
Body needs more drug to produced the desired effect
What they know about the addicted brain?
Rapidly increasing dopamine levels in the brains reward system occurs and as the brain reduces the number of dopamine receptor sites
Depressants?
Inhibit central nervous system activity, produce drowsiness, sedation or sleep. Relieve anxiety and lower inhibitions.
Alcohol, inhalants, barbiturates, tranquilizer
Opiates
Also called narcotics, release paint and produce euphoria.
Opium, morphine, codeine, heroin, pain killers
Stimulants
Increases brain activity, blocks sleep receptors Caffeine Nicotine Cocaine Amphetamines
Psychedelic drugs
Distortions of perception, alter mood, affect thinking,
Mescaline- peyote cactus
Lsd, psilocybin similar to serotonin
Marijuana
