Vocab
Circadian Rhythm
What is Body clock?
Hypnosis
What is social interaction where the subject responds to the hypnotist's suggestions that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behavior will spontaneously occur?
Cognitive development theory
What is the theory that dream content reflects dreamer's cognitive development (knowledge and understanding)?
Night terror
What is high arousal and appearance of being terrified?
Hallucinogens
What is psychedelic drugs that distort perceptions and evoke sensory images in absence of sensory input?
REM Sleep
What is Rapid Eye Movement Sleep?
Hypnotherapy
What is therapy that aims to help people uncover problem causing thoughts and feelings?
Neural activation theory
What is the theory that REM sleep triggers neural activity that evokes random visual memories, which our sleeping brains weaves into stories?
Sleep Apnea
What is a sleep disorder characterized by temporary cessations of breathing during sleep?
Marijuana
What is a mild hallucinogen that enhances sensation, relief of pain, distortion of time, relaxation
Latent Content
What is the underlying meaning of a dream?
Posthypnotic suggestion
What is a suggestion made during a hypnosis session to be carried out after the subject is no loner hypnotized?
Information processing theory
What is the theory that dreams help us sort out the day's events and consolidate memories?
Narcolepsy
What is a sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks?
Ecstasy
What is a stimulant and mild hallucinogen that causes emotional elevation and disinhibition?
Dissociation
What is a split consciousness?
The biological influence on hypnosis
What is...
-distinctive brain activity?
-unconscious information processing?
Psychological function theory
What is the regular brain stimulation from REM sleep may help develop and preserve neural pathways?
Narcolepsy often occurs...
What is at inopportune times?
Barbiturates
What is drugs that depress mental nervous system activity, reducing anxiety but impairing judgement and memory?
Hypnagogic
What is the sensation such as falling or floating weightlessly?
Psychological influence on hypnosis
What is...
-focused attention?
-expectations?
-heightened suggestibility?
-dissociation between normal sensations and conscious awareness?
Freud's wish fulfillment theory
What is the theory that dreams provide "psychic safety valve"; containing manifest and latent content?
The quickest, yet dangerous way to fix insomnia
What is sleeping pills and alcohol?
Amphetamines
What is drugs that stimulate neural activity, causing speeded-up body functions and associated energy and mood changes?