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| 12874517769 | Hypnosis | a social interaction in which one person suggests to another that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur | 0 | |
| 12874523335 | posthypnotic suggestion | a suggestion, made during a hypnosis session, to be carried out after the subject is no longer hypnotized; used by some clinicians to help control undesired symptoms and behaviors | 1 | |
| 12874523337 | Dissociation | the separation of ions that occurs when an ionic compound dissolves | 2 | |
| 12874525722 | circadian rhythm | the biological clock; regular bodily rhythms that occur on a 24-hour cycle | 3 | |
| 12874528079 | REM sleep | a stage of sleep characterized by rapid eye movements and a high level of brain activity | 4 | |
| 12874531568 | sleep | periodic, natural loss of consciousness--as distinct from unconsciousness resulting from a coma, general anesthesia, or hibernation | 5 | |
| 12874533967 | Hallucinations | false sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus | 6 | |
| 12874538181 | delta waves | the large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep | 7 | |
| 12874542268 | NREM sleep | Quiet, typically dreamless sleep in which rapid eye movements are absent; divided into four stages; also called quiet sleep. | 8 | |
| 12874545134 | insomnia | recurring problems in falling or staying asleep | 9 | |
| 12874548515 | Narcolepsy | A sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks. The sufferer may lapse directly into REM sleep, often at inopportune times. | 10 | |
| 12874548516 | sleep apnea | a sleep disorder characterized by temporary cessations of breathing during sleep and repeated momentary awakenings | 11 | |
| 12874552555 | night terrors | a sleep disorder characterized by high arousal and an appearance of being terrified; unlike nightmares, night terrors occur during Stage 4 sleep, within two or three hours of falling asleep, and are seldom remembered | 12 | |
| 12874557930 | dream | a sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping person's mind. Dreams are notable for their hallucinatory imagery, discontinuities, and incongruities, and for the dreamer's delusional acceptance of the content and later difficulties remembering it. | 13 | |
| 12874562635 | manifest content | according to Freud, the remembered story line of a dream | 14 | |
| 12874587511 | Barbiturates | drugs that depress the activity of the central nervous system, reducing anxiety but impairing memory and judgment | 15 | |
| 12874591207 | Stimulants | Drugs (such as caffeine, nicotine, and the more powerful amphetamines, cocaine, and Ecstasy) that excite neural activity and speed up body functions. | 16 | |
| 12874594462 | Amphetamines | drugs that stimulate neural activity, causing sped-up body functions and associated energy and mood changes | 17 | |
| 12874601283 | Methamphetamine | a powerfully addictive drug that stimulates the central nervous system, with speeded-up body functions and associated energy and mood changes; over time, appears to reduce baseline dopamine levels | 18 | |
| 12874604845 | ecstacy | a synthetic stimulant and mild hallucinogen. Produces euphoria and social intimacy, but with short-term health risks and longer-term harm to serotonin-producing neurons and to mood and cognition. | 19 | |
| 12874604846 | Hallucinogens | psychedelic ("mind-manifesting") drugs, such as LSD, that distort perceptions and evoke sensory images in the absence of sensory input | 20 | |
| 12874612447 | near-death experience | When someone about to die has an out of body experience | 21 | |
| 12874615739 | William James | founder of functionalism; studied how humans use perception to function in our environment | 22 | |
| 12874615825 | Ernest Hilgard | believed hypnosis invovles not only social influences but also a special state of dissociation | 23 | |
| 12874618514 | Sigmund Freud | Austrian physician whose work focused on the unconscious causes of behavior and personality formation; founded psychoanalysis. | 24 |
