A person's awareness of his or her's own feelings, memories, thoughts, sensations and the environment
What is Consciousness
100
A sleep disorder that causes difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep.
What is insomnia.
100
A condition in which a person experiences frequent episodes of daytime sleeping or prolonged deep sleep at night.
What is hypersomnia
100
A method of accessing the unconscious mind by inducing a trance state resembling sleep.
What is hypnosis
100
A form of altered consciousness that engages the brain in deep thought. Requires relaxation but also awareness.
What is Meditation
200
The act of focusing on feelings, memories, thoughts, sensations and environment
What is Awareness
200
A type of sleep that occurs about 90 minutes after falling asleep with active brain waves and relaxed muscles.
What is REM, or Rapid Eye Movement
200
A sleep disorder that is characterized by interrupted breathing during sleep
What is sleep apnea
200
A category of drugs that affect people psychologically such as prescription drugs and illegal drugs.
What is psychoactive drugs
200
This form of altered consciousness can help people quit smoking, manage weight, build confidence, or even alleviate pain during dental/surgical procedures
What is hypnosis
300
A thing or event that causes a reaction, feeling, thought or change in behavior. Can be internal or external.
What is stimulus
300
Bursts of rapid rhythmic brain waves that occur during Stage II sleep in which the heart rates decreases and the body temperature lowers
What is sleep spindles
300
A hormone released to low light levels that causes increased sleepiness.
What is melatonin
300
A physiological and/or physical dependence on a substance.
What is addiction
300
Psychoanalytical tenet where this part of the mind houses everything a person does not want to remember, yet influences behavior even if the individual is not aware of that influence.
What is the unconscious mind
400
A physician, specifically a neurologist, who was the first to theorize and study about consciousness
Who is Freud
400
Brain waves that are slower and occur during Stage I sleep during the transition between being awake and sleep.
What is Theta Waves
400
An experience during sleep, what is remembered upon waking and what is reported by others
What dreams are referred to
400
A physical tolerance that is the result of a physiological process involving the liver and metabolism. This tolerance can result in overdose or death
What is drug dependence
400
Vivid sensory phenomena that occur at the onset of sleep which can include visual hallucinations and/or hearing your name called.
What is hypnogogic hallucinations
500
A condition whereby stimulation in one sensory mechanism causes an experience in another sensory mechanism. "Tasting color."
What is synaesthesia
500
The body’s natural 24-hour internal clock or sleep-wake cycle that uses external and internal cues such as light and dark to determine when the body should sleep and wake
What is circadian rhythms
500
90 minutes
What is how long a sleep cycle typically lasts or about the time REM sleep occurs, not lasts.
500
Research studies have shown that practicing this can change the brain, specifically gray matter density in the hippocampus, an area in the brain that plays a role in learning and memory
What is meditation
500
Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) who has used brain imaging techniques to enable an understanding that pathological changes to brain structure make it very difficult for addicts to give up their addictions