General Qs
What is consciousness?
Our awareness of ourselves and our environment?
The reduction in the body's response to a drug which may accompany drug use is called and which requires more of the drug is....
Tolerance
How many stages of sleep are there?
4 stages of sleep
Can Hypnosis make you act against your will? Why not
No, not anymore than an authoritative figure can make someone who is not hypnotized act against their will.
Night terrors most often occur during...
Stage 4 NREM sleep
What is an amphetamine?
A drug that stimulates neural activity
The most frequently used psychoactive drug in the United States?
Caffeine
What will most likely be influenced by staying up especially late on weekends?
Circadian rhythm
What is Hypnosis?
Is an altered state of consciousness characterized by narrowed attention and increased openness to suggestion.
What are the two types of sleep apnea?
central sleep apnea and obstructive sleep apnea
The most common reactions to sleep loss up to 48 hours
include inattention, staring, and tremor of the hands
Caffeine, Tobacco, Alcohol are examples of what type of drugs
Psychoactive Drugs
The biological clock; regular bodily rhythms that occur on a 24 hour cycle to do with sleep
Circadian Rhythm
Hypnotherapists try to help patients harness their own healing powers in four ways
guided to focus on one thing
the client is made comfortable and directed to be relaxed
told to be open to the process
encouraged to use his/her imagination
A sleep disturbance in which one awakens several time during the night and has difficulty returning to sleep
Insomnia
The safest sleep position for most infants in order to prevent SIDS is...
On their back sides
Name two drugs classified as stimulants
These EEG readings are associated with being asleep.
Sleep Spindles
What two theories govern hypnosis
dissociation and as a performance of a social cognitive theory
The four major causes of insomnia are
Worry, stress, or excitement, age, drug use, exercise, mental status, anxiety, bedtime routines
According to the text, in what states is recreational use of marijuana legal
Washington and Colorado
What are the two types of dependence and how are they different
physical and psychological dependence... physical involves changes in bodily functions while psychological has an emotional need for the drug
This happens during stage 3 of sleep
deep sleep noted by low frequency, high delta waves
What is meditation?
Focus on a single target such as breath or a repeated sound to increase awareness of the moment
clearing of the mind to obtain a state of relaxed awareness and focus
What are the risk factors for SIDS
premature birth, smoking, hyperthermia, brain differences