The relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state.
What are alpha waves?
100
A social interaction in which one person suggests to another that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur.
What is hypnosis?
100
A chemical substance that alters perceptions and mood.
What is a psychoactive drug?
100
Drugs that stimulate neural activity causing speeded-up body functions and associated energy mood changes
What are amphetamines?
200
A recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur
What is REM sleep?
200
According to Freud, the underlying meaning of a dream.
What is latent content?
200
Hilgard's term describing a hypnotized subject's awareness of experiences, such as pain, during hypnosis.
What is hidden observer?
200
The diminishing effect with regular use of the same dose of a drug.
What is tolerance?
200
Drugs tat depress neural activity, temporarily lessening pain and anxiety.
What are opiates?
300
False, sensory experiences
What are hallucinations?
300
According to Freud, the remembered story line of a dream.
What is manifest content?
300
Supposed inability to recall what one experienced during hypnosis.
What is posthypnotic amnesia?
300
The discomfort and distress that follow discontinuing the use of an addictive drug.
What is withdrawal?
300
Drugs that depress the activity of the central nervous systm, reducing anxiety but imparing memory and judgement.
What are barbiturates?
400
A sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks.
What is narcolepsy?
400
The theory of dreaming that says we dream as a way to process random electrical brain activity
What is activation synthesis?
400
The researchers who demonstrated people could be induced to perform a dangerous act when under hypnosis, by coaxing people into throwing acid into someone's face.
Who are Martin Orne and Frederick Evans?
400
A phyiological need for a drug, marked by unpleasant withdrawal symptoms when the drug is discontinued.
What is physical dependence?
400
A stimulant and hallucinogen that produces euphoria and social intimacy but also severe health risks.
What is ecstasy?
500
A split in conciousness which allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously with others.
What is dissociation?
500
The tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation.
What is REM rebound?
500
A proposal made during hypnosis to be carried out after the subject is no longer hypnotized