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unit 5
ap psychology
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |