Busy. Please wait.
Log in with Clever
or

show password
Forgot Password?

Don't have an account?  Sign up 
Sign up using Clever
or

Username is available taken
show password

Your email address is only used to allow you to reset your password. See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.


Already a StudyStack user? Log In

Reset Password
Enter the associated with your account, and we'll email you a link to reset your password.

Myers 7th Edition - Chapter 07 Vocabulary

Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in each of the black spaces below before clicking on it to display the answer.
        Help!  

TERM
DEFINITION
Consciousness   show
🗑
Biological Rhythms   show
🗑
Circadian   show
🗑
show Rapid eye movement sleep, a recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur. Also known as paradoxical sleep, because the muscles are relaxed (except for minor twitches) but other body systems are active.  
🗑
show The relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state.  
🗑
show Periodic, natural, reversible loss of consciousness - as distinct from unconsciousness resulting from a coma, general anesthesia, or hibernation.  
🗑
show False sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus.  
🗑
Delta waves   show
🗑
show Recurring problems in falling or staying asleep.  
🗑
Narcolepsy   show
🗑
Sleep apnea   show
🗑
show A sleep disorder characterized by high arousal and an appearance of being terrified; unlike nightmares, night terrors occur during stage 4 sleep, within 2 or 3 hours of falling asleep, and are seldom remembered.  
🗑
show A sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping person's mind. Dreams are notable for their hallucinatory imagery, discountinuities, and incongruities, and for the dreamer's delusional acceptance of the content and later  
🗑
Dream (continued)   show
🗑
show According to Freud, the remembered story line of a dream (as distinct from its latent content).  
🗑
show According to Freud, the underlying meaning of a dream (as distinct from its manifest content). Freud believed that dream's latent content functions as a safety valve.  
🗑
REM rebound   show
🗑
Hypnosis   show
🗑
show Supposed inability to recall what one experienced during hypnosis; induced by the hypnotist's suggestion.  
🗑
show A suggestion, made during a hypnosis session, to be carried out after the subject is no longer hypnotized; used by clinicians to help control undesired symptomsand behaviors.  
🗑
Dissociation   show
🗑
Hidden observer   show
🗑
Psychoactive drug   show
🗑
show The diminishing effect with regulare use of the same dose of a drug, requiring the user to take larger and larger doses before experiencing the drug's effect.  
🗑
Withdrawal   show
🗑
Physical dependence   show
🗑
show A psychological need to use a drug, such as to relieve negative emotions.  
🗑
Depressants   show
🗑
show Drugs (such as caffeine, nicotine, and the more powerful amphetamines and cocaine) that excite neural activity and speed up body functions.  
🗑
Hallucinogens   show
🗑
show Drugs that depress the activity of the central nervous system, reducing anxiety but impairing memory and judgement.  
🗑
Opiates   show
🗑
show Drugs that stimulate neural activity, causing speeded-up body functions and associated energy and mood changes.  
🗑
show A synthetic stimulant and mild hallucinogen. Produces euphoria and social intimacy, but with short-term health risks and longer-term harm to serotonin-producing neurons and to mood and cognition.  
🗑
LSD   show
🗑
THC   show
🗑
Near-death experience   show
🗑
Dualism   show
🗑
Monism   show
🗑


   

Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
 
To hide a column, click on the column name.
 
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
 
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
 
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.

 
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.

  Normal Size     Small Size show me how
Created by: shellenberger
Popular Psychology sets