A periodic, natural, reversible loss of consciousness.
What is sleep?
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
Calm neural activity and slow body functions.
What are depressants?
100
a sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping person's mind
What are dreams?
200
Stage 2 lasts for __ minutes.
What is 20 minutes?
200
Recurring problems in falling or staying asleep
What is insomnia?
200
The supposed inability to recall what one experienced during hypnosis
What is posthypnotic amnesia?
200
drugs that depress the activity of the central nervous system, reducing anxiety but impairing memory and judgement
What is barbiturate?
200
psychologist who believed dreams are the key to understanding our inner conflicts
Who is Sigmund Freud?
300
This stage of sleep is when dreams are most vivid.
What is REM sleep?
300
This sleep disorder usually lasts less than 5 minutes.
What is narcolepsy?
300
People who believe that hypnotized people behave the way they do because hypnotized people think the experimenter would want them to behave a certain way are advocates of this theory.
What is the social influence theory?
300
depress central nervous activity, temporarily lessening pain and anxiety
What is opiate?
300
the underlying meaning of a dream
What is latent content?
400
People experience hallucinations in this sleep stage.
What is Stage 1?
400
A decrease in this causes sleep apnea sufferers to awaken and regain air
What is oxygen?
400
The theory that hypnosis has caused a split in awareness.
What is the divided consciousness theory?
400
Artificial opiates make the brain stop producing these painkilling neurotransmitters.
What are endorphins?
400
the theory that a dream is a safety area that releases feelings that are unacceptable in reality
What is the wish-fulfillment theory?
500
The brain emits these on an EEG which are large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep in Stages 3-4.
What are delta waves?
500
This sleep disorder occurs within 2 or 3 hours of falling asleep.
What are night terrors?
500
Hilgard's term for a hypnotized subject's awareness of experiences that are not noticed during hypnosis
What is hidden observer?
500
Alcohol disrupts the processing of recent memories into this.