A sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping person's mind. Notable for hallucinatory imagery, discontinuities, and incongruities.
What are dreams?
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
The diminishing effect with regular use of the same dose of a drug, requiring the user to take larger and larger doses before experiencing the drug's effect.
What is tolerance?
200
False sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus.
What is hallucination?
200
Recurring problems in falling or staying asleep.
What is insomnia?
200
According to Freud, the underlying meaning of a dream.
What is latent content?
200
A split in consciousness, which allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously with others.
What is dissociation?
200
The discomfort and distress that follow discontinuing the use of an addictive drug.
What is withdrawal?
300
A recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur.
What is REM sleep?
300
Occurs during stage 4 sleep, within 2 or 3 hours of falling asleep, and are seldom remembered.
What are night terrors?
300
According to Freud, the remembered story line of a dream.
What is manifest content?
300
A suggestion, made during a hypnosis session, to be carried out after the subject is no longer hypnotized; used by some clinicians to help control undesired symptoms and behaviors.
What is posthypnotic suggestion?
300
A chemical substance that alters perceptions and moods.
What is psychoactive drug?
400
The relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state.
What are alpha waves?
400
Temprorary cessations of breathing during sleep and repeated momentary awakenings.
What is sleep apnea?
400
The tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation.
What is REM rebound?
400
A person who can engage people's ability to focus on certain images or behaviors.
What is a hypnotist?
400
A synthetic stimulant and mild hallucinogen. Produces euphoria and social intimacy, but with short-term health risks and longer -term harm to serotonin-producing neurons and to mood and cognition.
What is ecstasy?
500
The large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep.
What are delta waves?
500
Usually harmless, and unrecalled the next morning. Typically return to bed on your own or are guided by a family member.
What is sleepwalking?
500
A dream theory which states that dreams help us sort out the day's events and consolidate our memories.
What is information-processing theory?
500
The percentage of humans that can become so deeply hypnotized that we can even undergo major surgery without anesthesia/
What is 10%?
500
Drugs that stimulate neural activity, causing speeded-up body functions and associated energy and mood changes.