Consciousness Key Terms
An awareness of internal and external stimuli
What is consciousness?
A state marked by relatively low levels of physical activity and reduced sensory awareness that is distinct from periods of rest that occur during wakefulness
What is sleep?
This has occurred when drug users require more and more of the drug to obtain a high
What is tolerance?
Growth hormone is secreted by the ________ while we sleep.
What is the pituitary gland?
Drug that tends to suppress central nervous system activity
What is a depressant?
A state of extreme self-focus and attention in which minimal attention is given to external stimuli
What is hypnosis?
A consistent difficulty in falling or staying asleep for at least three nights a week over a month’s time
What is insomnia?
Cocaine blocks the reuptake of this neurotransmitter
What is dopamine?
This is the true content of a dream
What is the manifest content?
Feelings of intense elation and pleasure from drug use
What is a euphoric high?
Clearing the mind in order to achieve a state of relaxed awareness and focus
What is meditation?
Biological rhythm that occurs over approximately 24 hours
What is circadian rhythm?
Heroin, Fentanyl, Morphine
What are Opiates?
These stages are described as slow wave sleep
What are stages 3 and 4?
One of a class of drugs that results in profound alterations in sensory and perceptual experiences, often with vivid hallucinations
What is a hallucinogen?
A discipline that studies how universal patterns of behavior and cognitive processes have evolved over time as a result of natural selection
What is evolutionary psychology?
A sleep disorder defined by episodes during which breathing stops during sleep
What is sleep apnea?
Marijuana, LSD, PCP
What are Hallucinogens?
This occurs when there are chronic deficiencies in sleep
What is sleep debt?
One of a category of drugs that has strong analgesic properties; opiates are produced from the resin of the opium poppy; includes heroin, morphine, methadone, and codeine
What is a opioid?
Theoretical repository of information shared by all people across cultures, as described by Carl Jung
What is collective unconscious?
A period of sleep characterized by brain waves very similar to those during wakefulness and by darting movements of the eyes under closed eyelids
What is rapid eye movement (REM) sleep?
This is the neurotransmitter impacted by LSD
What is serotonin?
This hormone regulates your biological clock.
What is melatonin?
A state of requiring increasing quantities of the drug to gain the desired effect
What is tolerance?