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Psychology-Dreams
Stack #72374
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Consciousness | awareness of oneself and one's environment |
| Preconscious | descriptive of information that is non-conscious but is retrievable into conscious awareness |
| Unconscious | a resvoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories of which we are unaware but which influences our behavior; not aware of desires |
| Altered States of Consciousness | a type of consciousness other than normal waking consciousness; sleep, influence of drugs, meditation, hypnosis |
| Spend Sleeping | 1/3 of your life |
| Circadian Rythm | a regular sequence of biological processes; occurs every 24 hours; temperature & sleep |
| Beta Waves | awake & alert; REM |
| Alpha Waves | relaxed state, visual images |
| Delta Waves | slowest waves, deep sleep |
| Rapid-eye-momement Sleep (REM) | a stage of sleep characterized by rapid eye movement; eyes are moving rapidly beneath our closed lids |
| Non-rapid-eye movement (NREM) sleep | not moving eyes during sleep |
| increases length as night's sleep progresses | REM |
| vivid dreams | REM |
| Nightmares | REM |
| Paralyzed body | REM |
| Essential part of sleep | REM |
| decrease in length at night's sleep progresses | NREM |
| Vague, partial images & stories | NREM |
| Incubus attacks (night terrors) | NREM |
| Sleepwalking or talking in sleep | NREM |
| Less essential part of sleep | NREM |
| REM-rebound | deprived of REM sleep |
| Rem Importances | Learn better; exercise brain cells; remember more information; help brain development in infants |
| Real Time | a person's dream seemed to last 10 minutes, she/he was probably dreaming for 10 minutes; we are often unable to hold onto information from one state of consciousness when we move into another state of consciousness |
| Sigmund Freud | theorized that dreams reflect a person's unconsciouss wishes & urges |
| biopsychological approach | the brain tries to make sense of the neurons by creating a story (dreams); the brain uses everyday problems of the day to give structure to the random burts of neurons during REM sleep |
| Insomnia | inability to sleep |
| Night terrors | nightmares; bad dreams (during NREM) |
| Sleepwalking | walking while sleeping |
| Sleep Apnea | breathing interruption during sleep |
| Narcolepsy | rare sleep problem, fall asleep whenever, wherever |
| Meditation | a systematic narrowing of attention that slows the metablolism and helps produce feelings of relaxation |
| Biofeedback | a system for monitoring and feeding back information about certain biological processes |
| Hypnosis | people appear to be highly suggestible & behave in a trance |
| Posthypnotic Suggestion | instructions given to a person under hypnosis that are supposed to be carried out after the hypnosis session has ended |
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elizabeth265
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