62572753 | CONSCIOUSNESS | awareness of surroundings, can be altered through hypnosis, bio-feedback, sleep, drugs, meditation | |
62572754 | CIRCADIAN RHYTHM | sleep pattern; unique to self | |
62572755 | BETA WAVES | Awake waves; low amplitude, high frequency | |
62572756 | ALPHA WAVES | drifting off waves; high amplitude, low frequency | |
62572757 | DELTA WAVES | deep sleep; large slow waves | |
62572758 | NON-REM SLEEP | Four stages that progress from light to heavy | |
62572759 | REM SLEEP | dreams occur; occurs 90 minutes into sleep; 90 minutes of this sleep all together | |
62572760 | ORTHODOX (n-REM) | sleep for mind; stages 1-4; higher level functioning resting, but muscles still tense | |
62572761 | PARADOXICAL (REM) | sleep for body; body relaxed, brain is very active | |
62572762 | SLEEP DEPRIVATION | deprived of REM or total sleep; tendency for REM rebound; symptoms include general disorientation, increase sensitivity to pain | |
62572763 | MICROSLEEP | brief seizures of sleep; eyes are open | |
62572764 | RESTORATION THEORY | one of sleep's purposes is to restore the body; tissue repair, hormones and NTs produced | |
62572765 | INSOMNIA | difficulty sleeping | |
62572766 | CLASSICAL INSOMNIA | cannot stay asleep | |
62572767 | SITUATIONAL INSOMNIA | difficulty getting to sleep | |
62572768 | PSEUDOINSOMNIA | dream that cannot get to sleep; wake feeling tired | |
62572769 | SLEEP APNEA | breathing related disorder where one stops breathing while sleeping | |
62572770 | NARCOLEPSY | suddenly and unexpectedly fall asleep; set off by strong emotions | |
62572771 | SOMNABULISM | sleepwalking; runs in families; occurs in twilight zone between REM and nREM sleep | |
62572772 | ENTRAINMENT | work with body to train a sleep cycle | |
62572773 | FREUD | Wish fulfillment hypothesis; have sexual and aggressive urges, but cannot act in conscious level because it is too immoral; repressed into dreams | |
62572774 | CONDENSATION | replacing objects and people with other people | |
62572775 | DISPLACEMENT | take feelings with one person and place it on another | |
62572776 | SYMBOLIZATION | universal symbols in dreams | |
62572777 | SECONDARY ELABORATION | wake up from dream and fill in missing parts | |
62572778 | MANIFEST CONTENT | surface of dream, what you tell others about dream | |
62572779 | LATENT CONTENT | true meaning of dream; what dreams really mean | |
62572780 | CARL JUNG | believes dreams are "wisdomatic;" hidden door to soul; what you see is what you get; universal dreams | |
62572781 | R.D. CARTWRIGHT | network model; purpose of dreams is to problem solve in a non-threatening way | |
62572782 | HOBSON -MCCARLY | Activation synthesis hypothesis; dreams are random neural firing of brain and is biologically based | |
62572783 | C.S. HALL | information processing theory; purpose of dreaming is processing daily info. | |
62572784 | LUCID DREAMING | start to control the dream | |
62572785 | PERSEVERATION | idea that mind will bring troubled situations until solved | |
62572786 | NIGHTMARES | occur in REM sleep; more likely to have them during stressful periods | |
62572787 | REPETITION COMPULSION | Freud believed that until painful experience is deal | |
62572788 | DAYDREAM | conscious fantasy; willful control; mainly about money and love | |
62572789 | HYPNOSIS | alter consciousness; possible therapeutic technique; only work if want it to work; form of meditation | |
62572790 | HYPERSUGGESTIBILITY | heightened state of suggestibility | |
62572791 | DEPRESSANTS | slows down the central nervous system; alcohol | |
62572792 | NARCOTICS | stimulate endorphins; relieve pain; heroin, crack cocaine | |
62572793 | STIMULANTS | drugs which increase the central nervous system activity | |
62572794 | HALLUCINOGENS | drugs which produce hallucinations |
Unit 5 States of consciousness
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