Consciousness
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| awareness of one's self and one's environment | Consciousness
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| the focusing of attention on a particular stimuli. | Selective attention
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| descriptive of information that is not conscious but is retrievable into conscious awareness. | Preconscious
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| according to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories of which we are unaware but which influences our behavior. | Unconscious
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| descriptive of bodily processes, such as the growing of hair, of which we are not aware. | Nonconscious
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| a type of consciousness other than normal waking consciousness. | Altered state of consciousness
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| a regular sequence of biological processes, such as temperature and sleep, that occurs every 24 hours. | Circadian rhythm
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| a stage of sleep characterized by rapid eye movements and linked to dreaming; also called REM sleep | Rapid eye movement sleep
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| a sleep disorder characterized by recurring problems in falling asleep or staying asleep. | Insomnia
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| a sleep disorder characterized by high arousal and apparent terror; unlike nightmares, night terrors are seldom remembered. | Night terror
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| a sleep disorder in which breathing is interrupted. | Sleep apnea
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| an uncommon sleep disorder characterized by brief attacks of REM sleep, often at inopportune moments. | Narcolepsy
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| a systematic narrowing of attention that slows the metabolism and helps produce feelings of relaxation. | Meditation
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| a system for monitoring and feeding back information about certain biological processes, such as blood pressure. | Biofeedback
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| a condition in which people appear to be highly suggestible and to behave as if they are in a trance. | Hypnosis
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| instructions given to a person under hypnosis that are supposed to be carried out after the hypnosis session has ended. | Posthypnotic suggestion
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| a compulsive need for and use of a habit- forming substance. | Addiction
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| a drug that reduces neural activity and slows body functions. | Depressant
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| a state of drunkenness characterized by impaired coordination and judgment. | Intoxication
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| a type of drug that dulls the senses, relieves pain, and induces sleep; the term is usually reserved for those drugs derived from the opium poppy plant. | Narcotic
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| a drug that increases neural activity and speeds up body functions. | Stimulant
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| a type of stimulant often used to stay awake or to reduce appetite. | Amphetamine
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| a false sensory perception that occurs in the absence of any actual stimulus. | Hallucination
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| an erroneous belief, as a persecution or grandeur, that may accompany certain psychotic disorders. | Delusion
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| a psychedelic drug, such as LSD, that distorts perceptions and evokes sensory images in the absence of actual sensory input. | Hallucinogen
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| the removal of a poisonous or otherwise harmful substance, such as alcohol or other drugs, from the body | Detoxification
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