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What is consciousness?
Our awareness of ourselves and our environment?
The reduction in the body's response to a drug which may accompany drug use is called?
Tolerance
How many stages of sleep are there?
4 stages of sleep
Can Hypnosis make you act against your will?
No, not anymore than an authoritative figure can make someone who is not hypnotized act against their will.
Night terrors most often occur during...
Stage 4 NREM sleep
What is an amphetamine?
A drug that stimulates neural activity
The most frequently used psychoactive drug in the United States?
Caffeine
What will most likely be influenced by staying up especially late on weekends?
Circadian rhythm
What is Hypnosis?
Is an altered state characterized by narrowed attention and increased openness to suggestion.
What proportion of people suffer from sleep apnea?
1/20
The most common reactions to sleep loss up to 48 hours
include inattention, staring, and tremor of the hands
Caffeine, Tobacco, Alcohol are examples of
Psychoactive Drugs
The biological clock; regular bodily rhythms that occur on a 24 hour cycle.
Circadian Rhythm
Hypnotherapists try to help patients harness their own healing powers with...
Posthypnotic Suggestions
A sleep disturbance in which one awakens several time during the night and has difficulty returning to sleep
Insomia
The safest sleep position for most infants in order to prevent sids is...
On their back sides
Nicotine is classified as a
stimulant
These EEG readings are associated with being asleep.
Sleep Spindles
What is most likely to occur as a consequence of hypnosis?
altered sensory experiences
The major cause of temporary insomnia is
Worry, stress, or excitement.
A particular dangerous (often fatal) combination of drugs is?
Alcohol and barbiturates
Muscles in your body relax during stage 1 sleep what is it?
hypnic jerk