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unit 5
ap psychology
Term | Definition |
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consciousness | our awareness of ourselves and our enviornment |
conscious level | the info about yourself and your enviornment |
nonconscious level | body processes controlled by your mind that we are not aware of |
preconscious level | info about yourself and enviornment that you are currently not thinking about |
subconscious level | info that we are not completely aware of by we know exists due to our behaviors |
unconscious level | reservior of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories in which we are ashamed of |
nightmare | a scary dream that wakes up the child |
night terror | a high arousal dream that terrifies a child due to the fact that it occurs in state four sleep |
insomnia | reoccuring difficulities either falling asleep or staying asleep |
narcolepsy | uncontrollable sleep attacks |
sleep apnea | temporary cessations of breathing during sleep |
somnambulism | sleep walking |
dreams | sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping persons mind |
manifest content | the story line of the dream |
latent content | the underlying meaning of the dream |
hypnosis | a social interaction in which one person suggests to another person that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur |
psychoactive drugs | a chemical substance that alters perceptions and mood |
tolerance | the diminishing effects with regular use of the same dose of a drug |
withdrawal | the discomfort and distress that follows discontinuing the use of an addictive drug |
stimulants | durgs that excite neural activity and speep up body functions |
depressants | drug that reduces neural activity and slows body functions |
alcohol | a depressant |
hallucinogens | psychedelic drug that distorts perceptions and evoke sensory images in the absence of a sensory input |
opiates | depress neural activity, temporarily lessening pain and anxiety |