The study of brain activity linked with our mental processes and cognition.
What is cognitive neuroscience
100
Known as rapid eye movement sleep; known as the sleep stage for dreaming and relaxed muscles
What is REM Sleep
100
A sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping person's mind
What is a dream (duh)
100
An artificially induced trance state resembling sleep, characterized by heightened susceptibility to suggestion
What is Hypnosis
100
Compulsive drug using or craving
What is addiction
200
The principle that information is often simultaneously processed on separate tracks
What is dual processing
200
The biological clock; regular bodily rhythms (for example, of temperature and wakefulness) that occur on a 24-hour cycle
What is circadian rhythm
200
According to Freud, the underlying, hidden meaning of a dream
What is latent content
200
A split in consciousness, which allows one to dissociate thoughts and behaviors.
What is dissociation
200
This type of drug dampens neural activity and slows body function. Examples include alcohol and opiates.
What are depressants
300
The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus
What is selective attention
300
The slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state
What are alpha waves
300
Reoccurring frightening dreams
What are night terrors
300
A suggestion made during the hypnotic session that will be carried out after the subject is hypnotized
What is posthypnotic suggestion
300
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 effects
What is tolerance
400
This effect is what allows most people to "tune into" a single voice and "tune out" all others as well as the ability to immediately detect words of importance, such as one's name in a large group.
What is the cocktail party effect
400
The condition of not having enough sleep causing fatigue, daytime sleepiness, clumsiness and weight loss or weight gain
What is sleep deprivation
400
The apparent story line without added meaning in a dream
What is manifest content
400
Although hypnosis has proven to relieve pain, it does not enhance memories and can create these
What are false memories
400
Drugs (such as caffeine, nicotine, and the more powerful amphetamines, cocaine, and Ecstasy) that excite neural activity and speed up body functions.
What is a stimulant
500
A surprising perceptual phenomenon that occurs when a change in a visual stimulus is introduced and the observer does not notice it.
What is change blindness
500
A sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks.
What is narcolepsy
500
A theory that states that dreams are unconscious wishes
What is Unconscious wish fulfillment theory
500
The belief that hypnosis subjects are influenced by the outside and act out the role as "the good subject"
What is The Social Influence Theory
500
A powerfully addictive drug that stimulates the central nervous system, with speeded-up body functions and associated energy and mood changes; over time, appears to reduce baseline dopamine levels