Unit 5 Vocab Flashcards

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Consciousness

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Our awareness of ourselves and our environment

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Circadian Rhythm

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The biological clock; regular bodily rhythms that occur on the 24 hour cycle

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REM Sleep

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Rapid eye movement sleep; a recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur. Also known as paradoxical sleep, because the muscles are relaxed, except for minor twitches, but other body symptoms are active

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Alpha Waves

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The relatively slow Brain waves of a relaxed, a weakened state

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Sleep

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Periodic, natural loss of consciousness, as distinct from unconsciousness resulting from a coma, general anesthesia, or hibernation

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Hallucinations

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False sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus

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Delta Waves

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The large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep

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NREM sleep

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Nonrapid eye movement sleep, encompasses all sleep stages except for ram sleep

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Narcolepsy

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I sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks. The suffer made laps directly into REM sleep, often at in opportune times

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Sleep Apnea

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

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Night Terrors

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A sleep disorder characterized by high arousal and an appearance of being terrified; I’d like nightmares, night terrors occur during stage for sleep, within two or three hours of folly sleep, and are seldom remembered

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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, just continue days, and incongruities, and for the dreamers delusional except Ince of the content in later difficulties remembering it

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Manifest Content

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According to Freud, the remembered storyline of a dream

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Latent Content

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According to Freud, the underlying meaning of a dream

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REM Rebound

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The tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation

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Hypnosis

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Hey social interaction in which one person suggests to another that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur

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Posthypnotic Suggestion

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Hey suggestion, made during hypnosis session, to be carried out after the subject is no longer hypnotize; use by some clinicians to help control undesired symptoms and behaviors

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Dissociation

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Hey split in consciousness, which allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously with others

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Psychoactive Drug

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Chemical substance that alters perceptions and moods

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Tolerance

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The diminishing effect with regular use of the same dose of a drug, requiring the user to take larger and larger doses before the experiencing the drugs affect

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Withdrawal

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Discomfort and distress that follow discontinuing the use of an addictive drug

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Physical Dependence

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A physiological need for drug, marked by unpleasant with her also some is when the dog is

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Psychological Dependence

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Psychological need to use a drug, such as to relieve negative emotions

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Addiction

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Compulsive drug craving and use, despite adverse consequences

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Depressants

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Drugs that reduce neural activity and slow body functions

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Barbiturates

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

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Opiates

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Opium ants derivatives, such as morphine and heroin; need a personal activity, temporarily lessening pain and anxiety

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Stimulants

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Drugs that excite neural activity and speed up by functions

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Amphetamines

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Drugs that stimulate neural activity causing speeded up body functions and associated energy and mood changes

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Methamphetamine

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A powerfully addictive drug that stimulates the central nervous system, with speeded up body functions and associated energy and mood changes; overtime, appears to reduce baseline dopamine levels

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Ecstasy MDMA

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Hey synthetic stimulant and mild hallucinogen. Produces euphoria and social intimacy, but the short term health risks and longer-term harm to serotonin producing neurons into move in condition

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Hallucinogens

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Psychedelic drugs such as LSD that distort perceptions and evoke sensory images not power in the absence of sensory

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LSD

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Powerful hallucinogenic drug; also known as acid

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Near-Death Experience

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An altered state of consciousness reported after a close brush with death; often so livid drug-induced hallucinations

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THC

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The major active ingredient in marijuana; triggers a variety of effects, including mile to exclamations