_______________________ is a person’s awareness of everything that is going on around him or her at any given moment.
What is Consciousness?
The state in which there is a shift in the quality or pattern of mental activity as compared to waking consciousness is called _______________________ ______________________ of consciousness.
What is the Altered State?
The _______________ __________________ is a cycle of bodily rhythm that occurs over a 24-hour period.
What is the Circadian Rythmn?
____________________ are brief sidesteps into sleep lasting only a few seconds.
What are MicroSleeps?
The ____________________ ____________________ of sleep is the theory of sleep proposing that sleep is necessary to the physical health of the body and serves to replenish chemicals and repair cellular damage.
What is the restorative Theory?
________________ ____________ are brain waves that indicate a state of relaxation or light sleep.
What are Alpha Waves?
______________ ______________ is a stage of sleep in which the eyes move rapidly under the eyelids and the person is typically experiencing a dream.
What is Rapid Eye Movement?
___________________ _______________________ are a relatively rare disorder in which the person experiences extreme fear and screams or runs around during deep sleep without waking fully.
What are Night Terrors?
_____________ __________________ is the phenomenon that occurs when a person who is deprived of REM sleep during one-night experiences greatly increased amounts of REM sleep the next night.
______________ is the inability to get to sleep, stay asleep, or get a good quality of sleep.
What is Insomnia?
________________ ______________ is a disorder in which the person stops breathing for nearly half a minute or more.
What is Sleep Apnea?
___________________ is a sleep disorder in which a person falls immediately into REM sleep during the day without warning.
What is Narcolepsy?
The state of consciousness in which the person is especially susceptible to suggestion is called _______________.
What is Hypnosis?
When more and more of the drug is needed to achieve the same effect it is called __________________________________.
What is Tolerance?
The physical symptoms that can include nausea, pain, tremors, crankiness, and high blood pressure, resulting from a lack of an addictive drug in the body systems, are called ____________________________ .
What is Withdrawal?
The feeling that a drug is needed to continue a feeling of emotional or psychological well-being is ________________________ __________________________.
What is Psychological Dependence?
_______________ are drugs that increase the functioning of the nervous system.
What are Stimulants?
Drugs that decrease the functioning of the nervous system are known as _____________.
What are Depressants?
________________________ are a class of opium-related drugs that suppress the sensation of pain by binding to and stimulating the nervous system’s natural receptor sites for endorphins.
What are Narcotics?
______________________ ________________________ is a well-known hallucinogenic drug that comes from the leaves and flowers of the hemp plant called cannabis sativa.
What is Marijuana?