Myers Exploring Psychology Ch 3 9th Edition
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| 940943882 | Consciousness | Awareness of ourselves and our environment | 0 | |
| 940943883 | Cognitive Neuroscience | The interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition (including perception, thinking, memory, and language). | 1 | |
| 940943884 | Duel Processing | The principle that information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks. | 2 | |
| 940943885 | Blindsight | A condition in which a person can respond to a visual stimulus without consciously experiencing it | 3 | |
| 940943886 | Selective Attention | The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus | 4 | |
| 940943887 | Inattentional Blindness | Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere | 5 | |
| 940943888 | Change Blindess | Failing to notice changes in environment | 6 | |
| 940943889 | Circadian Rythm | the biological clock; regular bodily rythms (for example, of tempeture and wakefulness) that occur on a 24 hour cycle. | 7 | |
| 940943890 | 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. | 8 | |
| 940943891 | Alpha Waves | the relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state | 9 | |
| 940943892 | Sleep | Periodic, natural loss of consciousness | 10 | |
| 940943893 | Hallucinations | False sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus | 11 | |
| 940943894 | Delta Waves | the large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep | 12 | |
| 940943895 | Narcolepsy | A sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks. The sufferer may lapse directly into REM sleep, often at inopportune times. | 13 | |
| 940943896 | Sleep Apnea | A sleep disorder characterized by temporary cessations of breathing during sleep and repeated momentary awakenings. | 14 | |
| 940943897 | Night Terrors | A sleep disorder characterized by high arousal and an appearance of being terrified; unlike nightmares, night terrors occur during NREM-3 sleep, within two or three hours of falling asleep, and are seldom remembered | 15 | |
| 940943898 | 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. | 16 | |
| 940943899 | Manifest Content | According to Freud, the remembered story line of a dream | 17 | |
| 940943900 | Latent Content | According to Freud, the underlying meaning of a dream | 18 | |
| 940943901 | REM rebound | the tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation | 19 | |
| 940943902 | 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. | 20 | |
| 940943903 | 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. | 21 | |
| 940943904 | Dissociation | A split in consciousness, which allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously with others. | 22 | |
| 940943905 | Psychoactive Drug | A chemical substance that alters perceptions and mood | 23 | |
| 940943906 | Tolerance | With repeated use, achieving the desired effect requires larger doses. | 24 | |
| 940943907 | Addiction | Compulsive drug craving and use, despite adverse consequences. | 25 | |
| 940943908 | Withdrawl | The disconfort and distress that follow discontinuing the use of an addictive drug | 26 | |
| 940943909 | Physical Dependence | A physiological need for a drug, marked by unpleasant withdrawal symptoms when the drug is discontinued | 27 | |
| 940943910 | Psychological Dependence | A psychological need to use a drug, such as to relieve negative emotions | 28 | |
| 940943911 | Depressants | Drugs (such as alcohol, barbiturates, and opiates) that reduce neural activity and slow body functions. | 29 | |
| 940943912 | Alcohol Dependence | Alcohol use marked by tolerance, withdrawal if suspended, and a drive to continue use. | 30 | |
| 940943913 | Barbiturates | Drugs that depress the activity of the central nervous system, reducing anxiety but impairing memory and judgement | 31 | |
| 940943914 | Opiates | Opium and its derivatives, such as morphine and heroin; they depress neural activity, temporarily lessening pain and anxiety. | 32 | |
| 940943915 | Stimulants | Drugs (such as caffeine, nicotine, and the more powerful amphetamines, cocaine, and Ecstasy) that excite neural activity and speed up body functions. | 33 | |
| 940943916 | Amphetamines | Drugs that stimulate neural activity, causing speeded-up body functions and associated energy and mood changes | 34 | |
| 940943917 | Nicotine | A stimulating and highly addictive psychoactive drug in tobacco | 35 | |
| 940943918 | 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 | 36 | |
| 940943919 | Ecstasy (MDMA) | 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. | 37 | |
| 940943920 | Hallucinogen | Psychedelic drugs such as LSD, that distorts perceptions and evoke sensory images in the absence of sensory input | 38 | |
| 940943921 | LSD | A powerful hallucinogenic drug; also known as acid (lysergic acid diethylamide). | 39 | |
| 940943922 | Near death experience | An altered state of consciousness reported after a close brush with death (such as cardiac arrest) often similar to drug induced hallucinations | 40 | |
| 940943923 | THC | The major active ingredient in marijuana; triggers a variety of effects, including mild hallucinations. | 41 | |
| 941354054 | Stages of Sleep | NREM-1: first stage of falling asleep. May have sensation of falling. NREM-2: more relaxed than NREM-1. Bursts of rapid rhythmic brain activity. Lightly sleep and easy to awaken. NREM-3: During this slow wave sleep (last 30mins) your brain emits large slow delta waves and you are hard to awaken. REM sleep: heart rate rises, breathing becomes rapid and irregular, every 30secs have rapid eye movment. | 42 | |
| 941379539 | Suprachiasmatic Nucleus | A pair of cell clusters in the hypothalamus that responds to light sensitive retinal proteins: causes pineal gland to increase or decrease production of melatonin, thus modifying our feelings of sleepiness. | 43 |
