Understanding consciousness and what it encompasses is critical to an appreciation of what is meant by a given state of consciousness. The study of variations in consciousness includes an examination of the sleep cycle, dreams, hypnosis, and the effects of psychoactive drugs.
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| 1923554918 | Consciousness | Awareness of ourselves and world | 0 | |
| 1923554919 | Depressants | Slows the functioning of the central nervous system, examples include; alcohol, barbiturates, and benzodiazepines. | 1 | |
| 1923554920 | Stimulants | Speeds up the activity of the central nervous system, examples include; amphetamine, cocaine, methamphetamine, and tobacco. | 2 | |
| 1923554921 | Pysical Drug Dependence | A person's need for a drug in order to function normally. | 3 | |
| 1923554922 | Tolerance | To need a higher dose of the substance to attain the same effect. | 4 | |
| 1923554923 | Withdrawal Syndrome | To abruptly stop using the substance. | 5 | |
| 1923554924 | Manifest Content | The images of the dream that a person can recall. | 6 | |
| 1923554925 | Latent Content | The deeper, underlying meaning of a dream. | 7 | |
| 1923554926 | Hypnosis | Altered state of consciousness, characterized by focused attention, relaxation, and high-end susceptibility to suggestion | 8 | |
| 1923554927 | REM Sleep | Sleep stage in which the sleeper experiences dreams, high brain activity, and sleep paralysis. | 9 | |
| 1923554928 | Narcolepsy | A sleep disorder that causes excessive sleepiness and frequent daytime sleep attacks. There is no cure, but some prescriptions can control or reduce the symptoms. | 10 | |
| 1923554929 | Insomnia | Having trouble falling asleep or staying asleep through the night.Prevents restore sleep | 11 | |
| 1923554930 | Sleep Apnea | A common disorder in which a patient has one or more pauses in breathing or shallow breaths while you sleep. Lifestyle changes such as losing weight and quitting smoking can help control these symptoms, as well as a machine called the CPAP. | 12 | |
| 1923554931 | Psychoactive Drugs | Chemical substances that alter our perception, behavior, and mood | 13 | |
| 1923554932 | Barbiturates | Calming/Sedating Drugs with medical uses | 14 | |
| 1923554933 | Amphetamines | Manufactured in lab. Activate sympathetic. Increased heart rate, breathing rate , and blood pressure | 15 | |
| 1923554934 | LSD | Vivid hallucinations and sensory distortions | 16 | |
| 1923554935 | Circadian rhythm | A cycle, such as waking and sleeping, that repeats about once a day. | 17 | |
| 1923554936 | melatonin | A hormone manufactured by the pineal gland that produces sleepiness. | 18 | |
| 1923554937 | human sleep cycle | stage 1- wake, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2 REM, etc et | 19 | |
| 1923554938 | sleep deprivation | Any significant loss of sleep, resulting in problems in concentration and irritability | 20 | |
| 1923554939 | risk factors for developing sleep apnea | overweight men | 21 | |
| 1923554940 | Content of dreams with regard to success and failure | more likely to dream of failure | 22 | |
| 1923554941 | Activation Synthesis theory | the theory that dreams result from the brain's attempt to make sense of random neural signals that fire during sleep | 23 | |
| 1923554942 | Social influence theory | Hypnotic subjects may simply be imaginative actors playing a social role | 24 | |
| 1923554943 | Divided-Consciousness | Hilgard's theory that hypnosis causes a split in awareness; part of the body doesn't notice the hypnosis at all, the other part is a hidden observer who knows hypnotism is going on (ex. hypnotized subject with hand in cold water won't know why her hand hurts) | 25 | |
| 1923554944 | indication of addiction | craving despite adverse consequence | 26 | |
| 1923554945 | alcohol | A central nervous system depressant consumable drug | 27 | |
| 1923554946 | Nicotine | A stimulating and highly addictive psychoactive drug in tobacco | 28 | |
| 1923554947 | Caffeine | A drug found in many drinks and foods, most commonly found in coffee, tea, chocolate, energy drinks. It is a stimulant, so can increase reaction time and concentration, and reduce feelings of fatigue or effort. It can cause restlessness, muscle twitching, irritability, and increased heart rate and blood pressure. | 29 | |
| 1923554948 | adolescent smoking | social acceptance | 30 | |
| 1923554949 | Addiction and the biophysical approach | abuse of drugs genetic | 31 | |
| 1923554950 | Adolescent pattern of drug use | best way to determine is their friend group | 32 |
