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(TAMUCC) Psych Ch.8
Psychology Terms (Ch.8)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the person's subjective experience of the world and the mind | consciousness |
| how things seem to the conscious person | phenomenology |
| the issue of how the mind is related to the brain and body | mind/body problem |
| the quality of being directed toward an object | intentionally |
| resistance to division | unity |
| the capacity to include some objects but not others | selectivity |
| the tendency to change | transcience |
| you are able to report your mental state | full consciousness |
| a person's attention is drawn to the self as an object | self- consciousness |
| the attempt to change conscious states of mind | mental control |
| the conscious avoidance of a thought | thought suppression |
| the tendency of a thought to return to consciousness with greater frequency following suppression | rebound effect of thought suppression |
| Freud's version; includes an inner stubble to control forces | dynamic unconscious |
| a mental process that removes unacceptable thoughts and memories from consciousness | repression |
| the mental processes that give rise to a person's thoughts, choices, emotions, and behavior even though they are not experienced by the person | cognitive unconscious |
| a thought or behavior that is influenced by stimuli that a person cannot consciously report perceiving | subliminal perception |
| a naturally occurring 24-hour cycle | circadian rhythm |
| difficulty in falling or staying asleep | insomnia |
| a person stops breathing for brief periods while asleep | sleep apnea |
| occurs when a person arises and walks around while asleep (sleepwalking) | somnabulism |
| sudden sleep attacks occur in the middle of waking activities | narcolepsy |
| the experience of waking up unable to move | sleep paralysis |
| abrupt awakenings with panic and intense emotional arousal (sleep terrors) | night terrors |
| the theory that dreams are produced when the brain attempts to makes sense of activations that occur randomly during sleep | activation-synthesis model |
| fear and emotion | amygdala |
| visual imagery | occipital lobe |
| less active, no planning | prefrontal cortex |
| spinal neurons inhibit motion | motor cortex |
| a chemical that influences consciousness or behavior by altering the brain's chemical message system | psychoactive drug |
| the tendency for larger doses of a drug to be required over time to achieve the same effect | drug tolerance |
| substances that reduce the activity of the central nervous system (alcohol, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, toxic inhalants) | depressants |
| substances that excite the central nervous system, heightening arousal and activity levels (caffeine, amphetamines, nicotine, cocaine, ecstasy) | stimulants |
| highly addictive drugs derived from opium that relieve pain (heroin, morphine, methadone, codeine) | narcotics/opiates |
| neurotransmitters that have a similar structure to opiates and that appear to play a role in how the brain copes internally with pain and stress | endorphins/endogenous opiates |
| drugs that alter sensation and perception and often cause visual and auditory hallucinations (LSD, mescaline, psilocybin, PCP, ketamine) | hallucinogens |
| the leaves and buds of the hemp plant that produces a mildly hallucinogenic intoxication | marijuana |
| an altered state of consciousness characterized by suggestibility and the feeling that one's actions are occurring involuntarily | hypnosis |
| the practice of intentional contemplation | meditation |
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