unit 5- states or consciousness Flashcards

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consciousness

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A persons awareness of everything that is going on around him or her

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Altered state of consciousness

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State in which there is a shift in the quality pattern of mental activity as compared to weaken consciousness

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mindfulness meditation

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Mental training practice that involves focusing your mind on your experiences in the present moment

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altered state

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Sleep is one of the human body’s biological rhythms, natural cycles, and activities at the body must go through

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circadian rhythm

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The cycle of physiological and biological processes that fluctuate on a roughly 24 hour timetable

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The wake/sleep cycle

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Sleep has a biological rhythm cycle every 90 to 110 minutes five distinct stages

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electroencephalography

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non-invasive test that records electrical activity in the brain

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Stage one

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Transition period between wakefulness and sleep, drifting in and out of sleep

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stage two

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Sleep spindles. Body temperature will drop heart rate slows, breathing, more shallow and irregular.

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stage three and four

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Slow wave sleep, Delta waves begin to appear more often

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rem sleep

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Rapid eye movements in your muscles become almost paralyzed brain waves, as if we were awake

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sleep paralysis

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The presence or persistence of features of rapid eye-movement (rem) sleep during the transition into or out of sleep

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sleep deprivation

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Occurs anytime that you get less sleep than your body needs. The degree of sleep deprivation can range from total acute sleep loss to chronic deprivation.

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rem rebound

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Lengthening an increasing frequency and depth of rapid eye-movement sleep, which occurs after periods of sleep deprivation

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Microsleep

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Microsleep is a fleeting, uncontrollable brief episode of sleep, which can last anywhere from a single fraction of a second up to 10 full seconds

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circadian rhythm disruption

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And out of sync sleep/wake cycle

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jet lag

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Temporary condition caused by rapid travel across time zones and may leave an individual experiencing fatigue, insomnia, nausea, or other symptoms as a result of circadian rhythm disruption

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insomnia

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The inability to go to sleep stay asleep, or get a good quality of sleep

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sleep apnea

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Chronic medical condition where the infected person repeatedly stops breathing during sleep

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narcolepsy

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Sleep disorder in which a person falls immediately into rem sleep during the day without warning

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sleepwalking

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The purposeful movement of walking that occurs in sleep like state

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nightmares

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Bad dreams occurring during REM sleep

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Night terrors

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Relatively rare disorder in which the person experiences extreme fear, and screams or runs around during deep sleep without waking fully

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dreams

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A dream can include any of the images, thoughts, or emotions that are experienced during sleep

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agonist

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Drag that binds to receptors in the brain and activate the receptors they bind to

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antagonists

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Block, receptor site, so natural agonist within the body cannot find where block reuptake of Neurotransmitters by certain neurons

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blood brain barrier

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The blood brain barrier serves a filter, controlling which molecules can pass from the blood into the brain

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tolerance

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Occurs when the body gets used to a medication so that either more medication is needed to give the desired effect, or a different medication is needed

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Physical dependence

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Occurs when people suffer from withdrawal symptoms, unpleasant, and sometimes dangerous reactions that may occur when people who use a drug regularly stop taking or reduce their dosage

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psychological dependence

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Cognitive and emotional aspects of addictive behaviors, or the withdrawal process from drugs

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addiction

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People who have a drug addiction experience, compulsive, sometimes uncontrollable craving for the drug of choice

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depressants

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Slow the activity of the central nervous system. They reduce tension and inhibitions and may interfere with a persons, judgment, motor activity, and concentration

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alcohol

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any beverage containing ethyl, alcohol, including beer, wine, and liquor

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sedative hypnotic drugs

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A drug used in low doses to reduce anxiety and in higher doses to help people sleep

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barbiturates

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Addictive, sedative, hypnotic drugs that reduce anxiety and help people sleep

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benzodiazepines

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The most common group of antianxiety drugs, which includes Valium and Xanax

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opioids

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Opium, or any of the drugs, derived from opium, including morphine, heroin and Codeine

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stimulants

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Substances that increased activity of the central nervous system, resulting in increase blood pressure and heart rate more alertness, and sped up behavior and thinking

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Caffeine

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The world’s most widely used stimulant. Acts as a stimulant of the central nervous system by producing a release of the neurotransmitter, dopamine, serotonin and norepinephrine in the brain

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amphetamines

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A stimulant drug that is manufactured in the laboratory. Stimulate the central nervous system by increasing the release of the neural transmitters, dopamine, norepinephrine and serotonin throughout the brain.

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methamphetamine

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Illegal substance, super stimulate, which can include eight hours or so of heightened energy and euphoria

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cocaine

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The most powerful natural stimulant now known. Stimulates the higher centers of the central nervous system, making users, feel excited, energetic, talkative, and even euphoric

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hallucinogens

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A substance that causes powerful changes primarily in sensory perception, including strengthening, perceptions, and producing illusions and hallucinogens

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LSD

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Produces symptoms primarily by binding to some of the neurons that normally receive the transmitter serotonin changing the Neurotransmitter activity at those sites

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cannabis

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Drugs produce from the variety of the hemp plant cannabis Sativa. They cause a mixture of hallucinogenic depressant, and stimulant effects.

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biological influences

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Researchers have come to suspect that drug misuse may have biological causes

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psychodynamic views

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Theorist believe that people with substance use disorders have powerful dependency needs that can be traced to the early years

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sociocultural influences

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People are most likely to develop substance use disorders when they live under stressful Socioeconomic conditions

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behavioral views

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Operant conditioning may play a key role in substance use disorders. Temporary reduction of tension or raising of spirits produced by a drunk has a rewarding affect, that’s increasing the likelihood that the user will seek this reaction again.

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cognitive views

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serious degree that rewards eventually produce an expectancy that substances will be rewarding, and this expectation helps motivate people to increase drug use at times of tension