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Psychology-Dreams

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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
Created by: elizabeth265
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