Vocabulary Words for AP Psychology Chapter 7
Book: Myers 7th Edition
KIEFER HURST
Pd. 7
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| 260576529 | Consciousness | our awareness of ourselves and our environment | 0 | |
| 260576530 | Biological Rhythms | periodic physiological fluctuations | 1 | |
| 260576531 | Circadian Rhythms | the biological clock; regular bodily rhythms (for example, of temperature and wakefulness) that occur on a 24-hour cycle | 2 | |
| 260576532 | REM Sleep | 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 systems are active | 3 | |
| 260576533 | Hallucinations | false sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of external visual stimulus | 4 | |
| 260576534 | Alpha Waves | the relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state | 5 | |
| 260576535 | Delta Waves | the large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep | 6 | |
| 260576536 | Sleep Spindles | short bursts of brain waves detected in stage 2 sleep | 7 | |
| 260576537 | Slow-wave Sleep | The last two stages of sleep, characterized by slow brain waves, deep breathing, and calm heartbeat | 8 | |
| 260576538 | Insomnia | recurring problems in falling or staying asleep | 9 | |
| 260576539 | Narcolepsy | a sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks. The sufferer may lapse directly into REM sleep, often at inopportune times | 10 | |
| 260576540 | Sleep apnea | a sleep disorder characterized by temporary cessations of breathing during sleep and repeated momentary awakenings | 11 | |
| 260576541 | 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 | |
| 260576542 | Dreams | 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 | 13 | |
| 260576543 | Manifest content | according to Freud, the remembered story line of a dream (as distinct from its latent, or hidden, content) | 14 | |
| 260576544 | Latent content | according to Freud, the underlying meaning of a dream (as distinct from its manifest content). Freud believed that a dream's latent content functions as a safety value | 15 | |
| 260576545 | REM rebound | the tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation (created by repeated awakening during REM sleep) | 16 | |
| 260576546 | Hypnosis | a social interaction in which one person (the hypnotist) suggests to another (the subject) that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur | 17 | |
| 260576547 | Posthypnotic Amnesia | selective amnesia after being in a hypnotic state of events occurring during hypnosis or of information designated by the hypnotist | 18 | |
| 260576548 | 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 | 19 | |
| 260576549 | Dissociation | a split consciousness, which allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously with others. | 20 | |
| 260576550 | Hidden Observer | Hilgard's term describing a hypnotized subject's awareness of experiences, such as pain, that go unreported during hypnosis | 21 | |
| 260576551 | Psychoactive Drugs | a chemical substance that alters perceptions and mood | 22 | |
| 260576552 | Tolerance | the diminishing effect with regular use of the same dose of a drug, requiring the user to take larger and larger doses before experiencing the drug's effect | 23 | |
| 260576553 | Withdrawal | the discomfort and distress that follow discontinuing the use of an addictive drug | 24 | |
| 260576554 | Physical Dependence | a physiological need for a drug, marked by unpleasant withdrawal symptoms when the drug is discontinued | 25 | |
| 260576555 | Psychological Dependence | a psychological need to use a drug, such as to relieve negative emotions | 26 | |
| 260576556 | Addiction | being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | 27 | |
| 260576557 | Depressants | drugs (such as alcohol, barbiturates, and opiates) that reduce neural activity and slow body functions | 28 | |
| 260576558 | Stimulants | drugs (such as caffeine, nicotine, and the more powerful amphetamines, cocaine, and Ecstasy) that excite neural activity and speed up body functions | 29 | |
| 260576559 | Hallucinogens | psychedelic ("mind-manifesting") drugs, such as LSD, that distort perceptions and evoke sensory images in the absence of sensory input | 30 | |
| 260576560 | Barbiturates | drugs that depress the activity of the central nervous system, reducing anxiety but impairing memory and judgment | 31 | |
| 260576561 | Opiates | opium and its derivatives, such as morphine and heroin; they depress neural activity, temporarily lessening pain and anxiety | 32 | |
| 260576562 | Amphetamine | drugs that stimulate neural activity, causing speeded-up body functions and associated energy and mood changes | 33 | |
| 260576563 | Methamphetamine | a powerfully addictive drug that stimulates the central nervous system, with speed-up body functions and associated energy and mood changes; over time, appears to reduce baseline dopamine levels | 34 | |
| 260576564 | MDMA | A compound drug related to both amphetamines and hallucinogens, especially mescaline; commonly called "ecstasy." | 35 | |
| 260576565 | THC | a major active ingredient in marijuana; trigers a variety of effects, including mild hallucinations | 36 | |
| 260576566 | LSD | a powerful hallucinogenic drug; also known as acid (lysergic acid diethylamide) | 37 |
