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1
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Our awareness of ourselves and our environment, existence, sensations, and thoughts:

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Consciousness

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Includes all biological processes that are taking place internally and constantly with you noticing:

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Nonconscious

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Stored information within our self or your environment that you are currently not aware or thinking of but can easily call to mind when asked:

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Preconscious

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Hidden memories that influence behavior but can never be known to the conscious mind:

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Unconscious

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Periodic fluctuations in our bodies’ physiological states including annual variations in appetite, 90-minute sleep, cycles, the 28-day menstrual cycle, and circadian rhythms:

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Biological Rhythm

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Regular biological rhythm, such as body temperature and sleep-wakefulness, that follows a 24-hour cycle:

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Circadian Rhythm

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Sleep hormone that is secreted from the pineal gland into the bloodstream:

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Melatonin

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Pair of cell clusters in the hypothalamus that controls circadian rhythm; in response to light, the SCN caused the pineal gland to adjust melatonin production, thus modifying our feeling of sleepiness; sometimes called the “master clock”:

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Suprachiasmatic Nucleus

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Natural, periodic, reversible loss of consciousness:

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Sleep

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Brain waves emitted while awake:

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Beta Waves

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15-40 cycles per second:

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Beta Waves

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Relaxed wakeful sleep lasts up to 5 minutes:

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Stage 1

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Hypnagogic states and hallucinations like sense of falling:

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Stage 1

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Start to emit alpha waves:

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Stage 1

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Relatively slow brain waves characteristic of an wake, relaxed state:

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Alpha Waves

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False sensory experiences that occur without any sensory stimulus:

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Hallucinations

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Clearly asleep and relaxed sleep stage with bursts of activity called sleep spindles:

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Stage 2

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Lasts for about 20 mintes; transition from alpha to theta waves:

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Stage 2

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Slower wave moving to restful sleep:

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Theta Waves

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4-7 cycles per second:

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Theta Waves

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Slower paced waves with spikes comparable to low amplitude theta waves:

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Sleep Spindles

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Associated often with sleep spindles:

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Sleep Talking

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Large, high voltage waves that often appear in response to such outside stimuli as sounds:

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K-complexes

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Transition stages with first emission of delta waves; short in length; growth hormone starts to be emitted and immune system starts to replenish itself:

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Stage 3

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Deepest sleep stages of delta waves creating restorative sleepN while growth hormone continues to be emitted:

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Stage 4

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Night terrors, sleep walking, bed wetting, teeth grinding, etc:

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Stage 4

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Large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep:

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Delta Waves

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Less than 4 cycles per second:

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Delta Waves

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Sleep stage in which the brain and eyes are active, the muscles are relaxed, and vivid dreaming occurs:

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REM Sleep

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Brain waves are high but our bodies have no movement because the brainstem acts to block communication between the cerebral cortex and motor neurons to produce REM paralysis:

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Paradoxical Sleep

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Tendency for REM sleep to increase following deprivation:

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REM Rebound

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Brief shift in brain activity from waking to sleeping brain waves; typically lasts for seconds and we lose consciousness and are unaware of our surroundings:

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Microsleep

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Sleep apnea that affects and often killls infants:

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Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

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Occurs between transition to Stage 4:

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Sleep walking

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Negative dreams that occur during REM:

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Nightmares

36
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Episodes of high arousal with apparent fear occurring during Stage 4:

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Night terrors

37
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Remembered story line of a dream:

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Manifest Content

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Underlying but censored meaning of a dream:

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Latent Content

39
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Physiological point of view that when we sleep, the pons sends signals to the cerebral cortex, creating what we perceive as dreams; view dreams as the mind’s attempt to make sense of random neural firings in the brain as we sleep when there is no meaning:

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Activation-Synthesis Theory of Dreams

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Dreams are the brain’s attempts to make sense of what we encounter during the day, and by shutting down sensory experiences, our brain can process the new data acquired from the day:

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Information-Processing Theory of Dreams

41
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Social interaction in which one person suggests to another that certain perceptions, feelings. thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur:

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Hypnosis

42
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A client is more able to respond positively to recommendations:

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State of Suggestibility

43
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Subjects are unable to recall what happened while they were under hypnosis:

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Posthypnotic Amnesia

44
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Believes hypnosis is not an altered state of consciousness but people pretending to be hypnotized and become actors in a role:

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Social Influence Theory

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Believes hypnosis is not an altered state of consciousness but people pretending to be hypnotized and become actors in a role:

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Social Influence Theory

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Hilgard proposes hypnosis creates a dissociative state by dividing higher executive functions of the brain that keeps the mind aware of hypnosis and lets the individual remain open to suggestion:

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Divided Consciousness Theory

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A part of a hypnotized persons’ consciousness that remains aware of happenings even under hypnosis:

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Hidden Observer

48
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Split between different levels of consciousness, allowing a person to divide attention between two or more thoughts:

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Dissociation

49
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Chemical substances that alter mood and perception:

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Psychoactive Drugs

50
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Field of study that examines changes induced by drugs in mood, thinking, and behavior:

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Psychopharmacology

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Physiological need for a drug that is indicated by the presence of withdrawal symptoms when a drug is not taken:

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Physical Dependence

52
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Need to take the drug to alter your memories or thoughts:

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Psychological Dependence

53
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Continued substance craving and use despite significane life disruption:

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Substance Use Disorder

54
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Alcohol use marked by tolerance, withdrawal, and a drive to continue problematic use:

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Alcohol Use Disorder

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Addicts lack frontal lobe inhibitor to make proper judgments about what to do/not do:

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Impulse Control

56
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Psychoactive drug that reduces neural activity and slows body functions:

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Depressants

57
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Alcohol, opiates which relieve pain, and barbiturates which induce sleep or reduce anxiety:

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Depressants

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Slows neural processing and thinking, impairs physical activity, reduces self-awareness, and impairs memory and REM sleep; intensifies GABA and reduces glutamate, causing sluggish movements, slurred speech, and impaired judgments:

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Alcohol

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Reduce anxiety and induce sleep by depressing activity of central nervous system; increases GABA:

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Sedatives/Tranquilizers

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Reduce neurotransmission and temporarily lessens pain and anxiety by reducing GABA and slows the release of dopamine:

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Opiates

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The inability to feel pain anturally due to an opiate addiction imapring the brains ability to produce endorphins and opamine:

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Anhedonia

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Psychoactive drugs that excite neural activity and speed up bodily functions:

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Stimualnts

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Caffeine, nicotine, amphetamines, and cocaine:

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Stimulants

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Imitates ACh making the smoker feel good:

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Nicotine

65
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Most used drug in the world; acts as adenosine-receptor antagonist causing people to have a rush of energy to stay awake:

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Caffeine

66
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Blocks the reuptake of dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine; causes an immediate rush followed by a crash:

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Cocaine

67
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Increase wakefulness and enhance cognitive performance while increasing metabolism; used to treat weight gain, narcolepsy, and ADHD:

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Amphetamines

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“Super” stimulant making it faster acting, more potent, and more dangerous than amphetamines because it is methylated twice:

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Methamphetamine

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Psychoactive drugs that distort perception and evoke sensory imagery in the absense of senroy input:

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Hallucinogens

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LSD and Marijuana:

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Hallucinogens

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Stimulant and mild hallucinogen that produces short-term euphoria by increasing dopamine and serotonin levels in the brain:

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Ecstasy (MDMA)

72
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Produced vivid false perceptions and disorganization of thought process; produces its unpredictable effects partially because it blocks the action of serotonin causing near death experience due to the lack of oxygen:

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LSD

73
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Mild hallucinogen and most active ingredient in marihuana:

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THC

74
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Causes mild euphoria, relaxation, and increased auditory and visual perceptions:

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THC

75
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Belief that the mind and body are distinct entities - the mind non-physical, the body physical:

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Dualism

76
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Belief that the mind and body are different aspects of the same thing:

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Monism

77
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Consciousness is a continuous flow:

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William James

78
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Known for theory of dream interpretation, stating dreams are a method for reaching into the unconscious mind and dreams might represent a form of wish-fulfillment by the unconscious mind:

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Sigmund Freud

79
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Developed dissociation theory of hypnosis:

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Ernest Hilgard

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