Psychology Chapter 5
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| 561986082 | Electroencephalograph (EEG) | a device that monitors the electrical activity of the brain | |
| 561986083 | electromyograph (EMG) | a device that records muscle activity and tension | |
| 561986084 | electrooculograph (EOG) | a device that records eye movements | |
| 561986085 | biological rhythms | periodic fluctuations in physiological functioning | |
| 561986086 | circadian rhythms | the 24-hour biological cycles found in humans and many other species | |
| 561986087 | REM sleep | sleep involving rapid eye movements | |
| 561986088 | Non-REM sleep | sleep stages 1 through 4, which are marked by an absence of rapid eye movements | |
| 561986089 | Ascending Reticular Activating System (ARAS) | consists of the afferent fibers running through the reticular formation that influence physiological arousal | |
| 561986090 | narcotics/opiates | drugs that are derived from opium that are capable of relieving pain | |
| 561986091 | insomnia | involves chronic problems in getting adequate sleep | |
| 561986092 | narcolepsy | a disease marked by sudden and irresistible onsets of sleep during normal waking hours | |
| 561986093 | sleep apnea | reflexive grasping for air that awakens a person and disrupts sleep | |
| 561986094 | night terrors | abrupt awakenings from NREM sleep accompanied by intense autonomic arousal and feelings of panic | |
| 561986095 | nightmares | anxiety arousing dreams that lead to awakening,usually from REM sleep | |
| 561986096 | somnamnulism | occurs when a sleeping person arises and wanders about in deep NREM sleep (sleep walking) | |
| 561986097 | hypnosis | a systematic procedure that typically produces a heightened state of suggestibility | |
| 561986098 | dissociation | involves a splitting off of mental processes into two separate, simultaneous streams of awareness | |
| 561986099 | meditation | a family of medical exercises in which a conscious attempt is made to focus attention in a nonanalytical way | |
| 561986100 | psychoactive drugs | chemical substances that modify mental, emotional, or behavioral functioning | |
| 561986101 | slow-wave sleep | sleep stages 3 and 4, in which low-frequency delta waves become prominent in EEG recordings | |
| 561986102 | sedatives | drugs that have sleep-inducing and behavioral depression effects | |
| 561986103 | stimulants | drugs that tend to increase central nervous system activation and hehavioral activity | |
| 561986104 | hallucigens | a diverse group of drugs that have powerful effects on mental and emotional functioning, marked most prominently by distortions in sensory and perceptual experience | |
| 561986105 | cannabis | the hemp plant from which maijuana, hashish, and THC are derived | |
| 561986106 | alcohol | a variety of beverages containing ethyl alcohol | |
| 561986107 | tolerance | a progressive decrease in a persons responciveness to a drug | |
| 561986108 | physical dependence | a condition that exists when a person must continue to take a drug to avoid withdrawal illness | |
| 561986109 | pyschological dependence | a condition that exists when a person must continue to take a drug to satisfy mental and emotional craving for the drug | |
| 561986110 | manifest content | Freud's term that refers to the plot of a dream at the surface level | |
| 561986111 | latent content | Freud's term that refers to the hidden or disguised meaning of events in a dream | |
| 561986112 | lucid dreams | dreams in which persons are aware that they are dreaming | |
| 561986113 | MDMA | a drug, also known as ecstacy, compounded from both amphetamine and hallucinogens that produces a short-lived high | |
| 561996882 | William James | originated the term, "the stream of consciousness" | |
| 561996883 | Sigmund Freud | argued for the existence of the unconscious and the hidden meaning of dreams | |
| 561996884 | William Dement | as one of the pioneers in early sleep research, he coined the term REM sleep | |
| 561996885 | Calvin Hall | After analyzing thousands of dreams, he concluded that their contents are generally quite mundane | |
| 561996886 | Rosalind Cartwright | proposes a problem-solving view as a reason for dreaming | |
| 561996887 | Theodore Barber | one of the authors of the rold playing theory of hypnosis | |
| 561996888 | Ernest Hilgard | A proponent of the altered state (divided consciousness) theory of hypnosis | |
| 561996889 | J. Alan Hobson | his activation-synthesis model proposes that dreams are only side effects of neural activation |
