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| 1082164635 | consciousness | our awareness of ourselves and our environment around us. Its our self awareness, part of DUAL PROCESSING, we experience many states of consciousness throughout the day. Connected to William James' idea of stream of conciousness | 1 | |
| 1082164636 | circadian rhythm | The 24 hour cycle that our body goes through each day. Body temperature rises in the morning and peaks during the day and dips in the afternoon. Thinking is sharpest at peak of circadian arousal | 2 | |
| 1082164637 | Superchiasmatic nucleus (SCN) | A pair of grain-of-rice sized clusters in the hypothalamus that receives waking and sleeping information from light sensitive proteins | 3 | |
| 1082164638 | REM Sleep | rapid eye movement sleep, when awakened during REM sleep many reported being in the middle of a dream | 4 | |
| 1082164639 | Alpha waves | the relatively slow brain waves that reflect your awake but relaxed state | 5 | |
| 1082164640 | How is the sleep transition marked? | Slowed breathing and irregular brainwaves of Stage 1 mark the beginning of sleep. | 6 | |
| 1082164641 | hallucinations | sensory experiences that occur without sensory input, in the sleep cycle the sensation of falling or tripping is an example of this. | 7 | |
| 1082164642 | Stage 2 sleep | 20 minutes of more relaxed sleep than that of stage 1, characterized by sleep spindles (bursts of rapid, rhythmic brain activity. Sleeptalking can occur. | 8 | |
| 1082164643 | Delta Waves | large, slow brainwaves. Signals a time where it would be hard for you to be woken up. Bed wetting or Sleep walking may occur (Stage 4) | 9 | |
| 1082164644 | NREM sleep | Any stage of sleep (1-4) that is not REM sleep | 10 | |
| 1082164645 | What is sleep's function? | Helps us recuperate, makes memories, feeds creative thinking, and may play a role in the growth process. | 11 | |
| 1082164646 | insomnia | persistent problems in falling or staying asleep. | 12 | |
| 1082164647 | Narcolepsy | victims experience an overwhelming feeling of sleepyness and in some cases just fall asleep at the most inopportune times. | 13 | |
| 1082164648 | sleep apnea | when the sleeper doesn't breathe during sleep. Victims sleep without breathing for a minute or so and then snort in air. | 14 | |
| 1082164649 | night terrors | appears in children, experience a doubled heart rate and the appearance of being terrified. THESE ARE NOT NIGHTMARES | 15 | |
| 1082164650 | REM dreams | "hallucinations of the sleeping mind" Dreams are vivid, emotional, and bizarre. Can be confused with reality | 16 | |
| 1082164651 | manifest content | when dreams incorporate the previous days nonsexual experiences and preoccupations. | 17 | |
| 1082164652 | What is the function of dreams? | To satisfy our own wishes, to file away memories, to develop and preserve neural pathways and to make sense of neural static, and to reflect cognitive development. | 18 | |
| 1082164653 | latent content | unconscious drives and wishes that would be threatening if expressed directly | 19 | |
| 1082164654 | REM rebound | when people are repeatedly awakened and once they are allowed to sleep, they sleep with increased REM sleep. | 20 | |
| 1082164655 | hypnosis | when you "can't" control yourself after a hypnotic induction | 21 | |
| 1082164656 | posthypnotic suggestions | when hypnotherapists try to help patients harness their own healing powers. | 22 | |
| 1082164657 | dissociation | a split between different levels of conciousness | 23 | |
| 1082164658 | psychoactive drugs | chemicals that change perceptions and moods through their actions at the neural synapses. | 24 | |
| 1082164659 | tolerance | as the drug user's brain gets used to the drug, it requires more for the same "high" | 25 | |
| 1082164660 | withdrawal | the physical pain and cravings felt by a drug user when he/she is absent of the drug | 26 | |
| 1082164661 | physical dependance | when a use goes through withdrawal, this can be affirmed as a possibility | 27 | |
| 1082164662 | psychological dependance | when people develop the need for stress relieving drugs that aren't necessarily physically dependant | 28 | |
| 1082164663 | addiction | a compulsive craving for a substance despite adverse consequences, can have physical symptoms | 29 | |
| 1082164664 | Depressants | drugs such as alcohol, tranquilizers and opiates that calm neural activity | 30 | |
| 1082164665 | stimulants | drugs such as nicotine that temporarily excite neural activity | 31 | |
| 1082164666 | hallucinogens | drugs that distort perceptions and evoke sensory images in the absence of sensory input. | 32 | |
| 1082164667 | Eugene Aserinsky | Accidentally discovered that we pass through sleep stages, helped pioneer studies of brain activity | 33 | |
| 1082164668 | Ernest Hilgard | believed that hypnosis involves not only social influences but also a state of dissociation. | 34 | |
| 1082164669 | Albert Hofmann | the first person to learn and ingest LSD | 35 | |
| 1082164670 | Nathaniel Kleitman | Discovered REM sleep | 36 | |
| 1082164671 | Nicholas Spanos | hypnosis researcher | 37 | |
| 1082164672 | William Dement | sleep researcher who coined the term "rapid eye movement" | 38 | |
| 1082164673 | Stanley Coren | found that most humans will sleep for 9 hours if not interrupted | 39 | |
| 1082164674 | Sigmund Freud | Father of pscychoanalysis | 40 |
