The track of consciousness that takes deliberate action that we know we are doing.
What is the high track?
100
Spindles occur in this stage of sleep.
What is Stage 2?
100
Freud referred to dreams which feature negative emotions by this name.
What are failure dreams?
100
The term for a state of heightened suggestibility.
What is a trance?
100
This drug, the most widely used in the United States, slows neural processing (starting in the frontal lobes), reduces memory formation, and impairs judgment and self control.
What is alcohol?
200
The track of consciousness that performs automatic actions without being aware of them.
What is the low track?
200
The body's natural 24-hour cycle.
What is the circadian rhythm?
200
Freud's term for the hidden meaning of dreams.
What is latent content?
200
The term for the process of leading a person into hypnosis.
What is hypnotic induction?
200
These depressants reduce pain and anxiety and, in high doses, can cause temporary euphoria.
What are opiates?
300
Selecting what we're focusing on.
What is selective attention?
300
It takes approximately this long to complete on sleep cycle.
What is 90 minutes?
300
The theory which states that dream content reflects the dreamers’ cognitive development.
What is Cognitive Developmental theory?
300
The theory that hypnosis is a special state of dissociated consciousness of our dual-track mind.
What is Divided Consciousness theory?
300
This stimulant blocks reuptake of dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine resulting in about 45 minutes of euphoria.
What is cocaine?
400
Focusing on our conversation even when other conversations are going on around us.
What is the cocktail party effect?
400
Large muscle groups are paralyzed during this stage of sleep.
What is REM sleep?
400
The theory that regular brain stimulation from REM sleep may help develop and preserve neural pathways.
What is Physiological Function theory?
400
The theory that hypnotic subjects may simply be imaginative people who go along with the “subject” role they have agreed to play.
What is Social Influence theory?
400
This hallucinogen amplifies sensations, lowers inhibitions, improves mood, and keeps people from feeling full.
What is marijuana?
500
Not noticing when an object or person is replaced with something or someone similar.
What is change blindness?
500
This sleep disorder causes one to fall asleep randomly and uncontrollably.
What is narcolepsy?
500
Dreams provide a “psychic safety valve” to express
otherwise unacceptable feelings, and contain both remembered content and hidden meaning.
What is Wish-fulfillment or Psychoanalytic theory?
500
The term given to the part of the consciousness that observes the hypnosis taking place.
What is the hidden observer?
500
What hospital-grade general anesthetic was Michael Jackson using as a sleep aid?