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| Our awareness of ourselves and our environment | ||
| Periodic physiological fluctuations | ||
| The biological clock; regular bodily rhythms that occur on a 24-hour cycle | ||
| Rapid eye movement sleep, a recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur | ||
| The relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state | ||
| Periodic, natural, reversible loss of consciousness - as distinct from unconsciousness resulting from a coma, general anesthesia, or hibernation | ||
| False sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus | ||
| The large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep | ||
| Recurring problems in falling or staying asleep | ||
| A sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks | ||
| A sleep disorder characterized by temporary cessations of breathing during sleep and consequent momentary reawakenings | ||
| A sleep disorder characterized by high arousal and an appearance of being terrified; occur during Stage 4 sleep and are seldom remembered | ||
| A sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping person's mind | ||
| According to Freud, the remembered story line of a dream | ||
| According to Freud, the underlying meaning of a dream | ||
| The tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation | ||
| A social interaction in which one person suggests to another that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur | ||
| Supposed inability to recall what one experienced during hypnosis; induced by the hypnotist's suggestion | ||
| A suggestion, made during a hypnosis session, to be carried out after the subject is no longer hypnotized | ||
| A split in consciousness, which allows some thoughts to occur simultaneously with others | ||
| Hilgard's term describing a hypnotized subject's awareness of experiences, such as pain, that go unreported during hypnosis | ||
| A chemical substance that alters perceptions and mood | ||
| 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 | ||
| The discomfort and distress that follow discontinuing the use of an addictive drug | ||
| A physiological need for a drug, marked by unpleasant withdrawal symptoms when the drug is discontinued | ||
| A psychological need to use a drug, such as to relieve negative emotions | ||
| Drugs that reduce neural activity and slow body functions | ||
| Drugs that excite neural activity and speed up body functions | ||
| Psychedelic drugs that distort perceptions and evoke sensory images in the absence of sensory imput | ||
| Drugs that depress the activity of the central nervous system, reducing anxiety but imparing memory and judgment | ||
| Drugs that depress neural activity, temporarily lessenging pain and anxiety | ||
| Drugs that stimulate neural activity, causing speeded-up body functions and associated energy and mood changes | ||
| 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 | ||
| A powerful hallucinogenic drug; also known as acid | ||
| The major active ingredient in marijuana; triggers a variety of effects, including mild hallucinations | ||
| An altered state of consciousness reported after close brush with death | ||
| The presumption that mind and body are two distinct entities that interact | ||
| The presumption that mind and body are different aspects of the same thing |
