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Vocab for Chapter 7 Test

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Circadian
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Latent content
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Narcolepsy
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Sleep
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Barbiturates
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Hypnosis
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REM sleep
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Opiates
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Night terrors
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Psychoactive drug
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Hallucinogens
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Monism
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Consciousness
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Posthypnotic amnesia
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Sleep apnea
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Depressants
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REM rebound
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Psychological dependence
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THC
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Hallucinations
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A sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks. The sufferer may lapse directly into REM sleep, often at inopportune times.
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Psychedelic ("mind manifesting") drugs, such as LSD, that distort perceptions and evoke sensory images in the absence of sensory input.
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Drugs that depress the activity of the central nervous system, reducing anxiety but impairing memory and judgement.
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A psychological need to use a drug, such as to relieve negative emotions.
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A chemical substance that alters perceptions and mood.
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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.
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A social interaction in which one person (the hypnotist) suggests to another (the subject) that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behavior will spontaneously occur.
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The major active ingredient in marijuana; triggers a variety of effects, including mild hallucinations.
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A sleep disorder characterized by temporary cessations of breathing during sleep and consequent momentary reawakenings.
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The presumption that mind and body are different aspects of the same thing.
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The tendency for REM sleep to increase REM sleep deprivation (created by repeated awakenings during REM sleep).
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The biological clock; regular bodily rhythms (for example, of temperature and wakefulness) that occur on a 24-hour cycle.
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Drugs (such as alcohol, barbiturates, and opiates) that reduce neural activity and slow body functions.
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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.
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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.
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Supposed inability to recall what one experienced during hypnosis; induced by the hypnotist's suggestion.
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Opium and its derivatives, such as morphine and heroin; they depress neural activity, temporarily lessening pain and anxiety.
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False sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus.
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Our awareness of ourselves and our enviroment.
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Periodic, natural, reversible loss of consciousness - as distinct from unconsciousness resulting from a coma, general anesthesia, or hibernation.
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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
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Recurring problems in falling or staying asleep.
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An altered state of consciousness reported after a close brush with death (such as through cardiac arrest); often similar to drug-induced hallucinations.
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According to Freud, the remembered story line of a dream (as distinct from its latent content).
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The presumption that mind and body are two distinct entities that interact.
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Drugs (such as caffeine, nicotine, and the more powerful amphetamines and cocaine) that excite neural activity and speed up body functions.
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Periodic physiological fluctuations.
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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.
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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.
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difficulties remembering it.

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