Psychoactive Drugs
These are chemical substances that alter thinking, perception, and memory.
This sleep stage is the most important and can be called a "paradoxical sleep."
REM
This stage of cognitive development is when babies explore the world with their sense and develop object permanence.
Sensorimotor
This person conducted the "little Albert" experiment.
John B. Watson
This is how many hours a day most adults should sleep.
7-8 hours
This is when more drugs are needed now to achieve same pleasure response.
Tolerance
Sleep paralysis occurs in this sleep stage.
REM
This concept is the process of people understanding new things in terms of schemas they already possess.
Assimilation
This person used pigeons and a box setup to study operant conditioning.
B. F. Skinner
This theory proposes that animals and humans evolved sleep patterns to avoid predators by sleeping when predators are most active.
Adaptive theory
Name two examples of depressants.
Possible answers: opiates, opioids, alcohol, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, & rohypnol
These brain waves are long slow waves that indicate the deepest stages of sleep.
Delta waves
Children in this stage of cognitive development cannot complete conservation tasks and are very egocentric.
Preoperational
This person developed a hypothesis of cognitive development in four stages.
Piaget
This theory states that sleep is necessary to the physical health of the body and serves to replenish chemicals and repair cellular damage.
Restorative theory
This is the feeling that a drug is needed to continue a feeling of emotional or psychological well-being.
Psychological dependence
This type of brain scan measures brain waves and are often used in sleep studies.
This stage is when children can begin to understand and partake in abstract logic and reasoning.
Formal operational
This person had the first psychology lab in Germany, and believed that consciousness could be broken down into thoughts, experiences, emotional, and other basic elements.
Wilhem Wundt
This theory of dreams says that dreams result of some areas of the cortex interpreting, or attempting to piece together, random signals from lower brain areas.
Activation-synthesis hypothesis
These are synthetically created drugs that act like opiates.
Opioids
This concept is when people will make up lost REM sleep when they are sleep deprived.
REM rebound
This person's theory of cognitive development emphasizes the role of others and the importance of social and cultural interaction in cognitive development.
Vygotsky
This person founded the idea of structuralism: the idea that experiences could be broken down into emotions and sensations.
Edward Titchener
This model states that information that is accessed during waking hours can have an influence on the synthesis of dreams.
Activation information mode model