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| 1013246239 | Alcohol | (depressant) produces relaxation, slows down activity in the judgment area of cortex, reduces behavioural inhibitions | 0 | |
| 1013246240 | Ascending reticular activating system (ARAS) | afferent fibers running through the reticular formation that influence physiological arousal, without these you have continuous sleep | 1 | |
| 1013246241 | Biological rhythms | Periodic physiological fluctuations | 2 | |
| 1013246242 | Cannabis | The hemp plant from which marijuana, hashish, and THC are derived. | 3 | |
| 1013246243 | Circadian rhythms | The 24-hour biological cycles found in humans and many other species. | 4 | |
| 1013246244 | Dissociation | A split in consciousness, which allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously with others. | 5 | |
| 1013246245 | Electroencephalograph (EEG) | Recording of the electrical activity of the brain | 6 | |
| 1013246246 | Electromyograph (EMG) | EMG aids in the diagnosis of neuromuscular, lower motor neuron, and peripheral nerve disorders; usually with nerve conduction studies | 7 | |
| 1013246247 | Electrooculograph (EOG) | An instrument that measures eye movements | 8 | |
| 1013246248 | Hallucinogens | A diverse group of drugs that have powerful effects on mental and emotional functioning, marked most prominently by distortions in sensory and perceptual experience. | 9 | |
| 1013246249 | Hypnosis | A state of consciousness resulting from a narrowed focus of attention and characterized by heightened suggestibility. | 10 | |
| 1013246250 | Insomnia | A sleep disorder characterized by difficulty falling or staying asleep, by waking too early, or by sleep that is light, restless, or of poor quality. | 11 | |
| 1013246251 | Latent content | According to Freud, the underlying meaning of a dream | 12 | |
| 1013246252 | Lucid dreams | Dreams in which people can think clearly about the circumstances of waking life and the fact that they are dreaming, yet they remain asleep in the midst of a vivid dream. | 13 | |
| 1013246253 | Manifest content | According to Freud, the remembered story line of a dream | 14 | |
| 1013246254 | MDMA | A compound drug related to both amphetamines and hallucinogens, especially mescaline; commonly called "ecstasy." | 15 | |
| 1013246255 | Meditation | A mental exercise for producing relaxation or heightened awareness. | 16 | |
| 1013246256 | Narcolepsy | A sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks. The sufferer may lapse directly into REM sleep, often at inopportune times. | 17 | |
| 1013246257 | Narcotics | Drug substance, either derived from opium or produced synthetically, that alters perception of pain and that with repeated use may result in physical and psychological dependence. | 18 | |
| 1013246258 | 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 | 19 | |
| 1013246259 | Nightmares | Anxiety-arousing dreams that lead to awakening, usually from REM sleep. | 20 | |
| 1013246260 | Non-REM (NREM) sleep | Sleep stages 1 through 4, which are marked by an absence of rapid eye movements, relatively little dreaming, and varied EEG activity. | 21 | |
| 1013246261 | Opiates | Opium and its derivatives, such as morphine and heroin; they depress neural activity, temporarily lessening pain and anxiety. | 22 | |
| 1013246262 | Physical dependence | A physiological need for a drug, marked by unpleasant withdrawal symptoms when the drug is discontinued | 23 | |
| 1013246263 | Psychoactive drugs | Chemicals that affect the nervous system and result in altered consciousness | 24 | |
| 1013246264 | Psychological dependence | The condition that exists when a person must continue to take a drug in order to satisfy intense mental and emotional craving for the drug. | 25 | |
| 1013246265 | 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. | 26 | |
| 1013246266 | Sedatives | Sleep-inducing drugs that tend to decrease central nervous system activation and behavioral activity. | 27 | |
| 1013246267 | Sleep apnea | A sleep disorder characterized by temporary cessations of breathing during sleep and repeated momentary awakenings. | 28 | |
| 1013246268 | Slow-wave sleep (SWS) | Sleep stages 3 and 4, during which low-frequency delta waves become prominent in EEG recordings. | 29 | |
| 1013246269 | Somnambulism | Arising and walking about while remaining asleep; sleepwalking. | 30 | |
| 1013246270 | Stimulants | A category of psychoactive drugs that increase brain activity, arouse behavior, and increase mental alertness. | 31 | |
| 1013246271 | Tolerance | A progressive decrease in a person's responsiveness to a drug. | 32 | |
| 1013246272 | Theodore Barber | leading advocate of the view that hypnosis produces a normal mental state in which suggestible people act out the role of a hypnotic subject and behave as they think hypnotized people are supposed to. | 33 | |
| 1013246273 | Rosalind Cartwright | studied the function of dreaming and REM sleep funded by NSF, NIH and NIMH. Worked with sleepwalking violence, dreams that help the depressed recover, and snoring that disturbs the sleep of the partner and innovative treatments for sleep apnea | 34 | |
| 1013246274 | William Dement | Sleep researcher who discovered and coined the phrase "rapid eye movement" (REM) sleep. | 35 | |
| 1013246275 | Sigmund Freud | Believed that the principal purpose of dreams was wish fufillment; distinguished between latent and manifest content | 36 | |
| 1013246276 | Calvin Hall | the problem centered dream theory, simple examples of activities and problems from the day, linked with life stresses, we dream what we're occupied by (death, illness, etc) | 37 | |
| 1013246277 | Ernest Hilgard | believed hypnosis invovles not only social influences but also a special state of dissociation | 38 | |
| 1013246278 | J. Alan Hobson | His activation-synthesis model proposes that dreams are only side effects of neural activation. | 39 | |
| 1013246279 | William James | - Viewed the mind as a stream which cannot be meaningfully broken down into distinct component | 40 |
