Module 22
Our awareness of ourselves and our environment.
What is consciousness?
The biological clock; regular bodily rhythms that occur on a 24-hour cycle.
What is the circadian rhythm?
Recurring problems in falling or staying asleep.
What is insomnia?
A chemical substance that alters perceptions and moods.
What is psychoactive drug?
A social interaction in which one person responds to another person's suggestions that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur.
What is hypnosis?
A suggestion, made during a hypnosis session, to be carried out after the subject is no longer hypnotized; used by some clinicians to help control undesired symptoms and behavior.
What is posthypnotic suggestion?
The relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state.
What are alpha waves?
A sleep disorder characterized by temporary cessations of breathing during sleep and repeated momentary awakenings.
What is sleep apnea?
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 effect.
What is tolerance?
Usually harmless, and unrecalled the next morning. Typically return to bed on your own or are guided by a family member.
What is sleepwalking ?
This therapy aims to help people uncover problem-causing thoughts and feelings, or change an unwanted behavior.
What is hypnotherapy?
non-rapid eye movement sleep; encompasses all sleep stages except for REM sleep.
What is NREM sleep?
A sleep disorder characterized by high arousal and an appearance of being terrified.
What is night terrors?
Drugs that reduce neural activity and slow body functions.
What are depressants?
According to Freud, the underlying meaning of a dream.
What is latent content?
A split in, consciousness, which allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously with others.
What is dissociation?
A recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur.
What is REM sleep?
The tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation.
What is REM rebound?
Drugs that excite neural activity and speed up body functions.
What are stimulants?
The discomfort and distress that follow discontinuing the use of an addictive drug.
What is withdrawal?
A split in consciousness, which allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously with others.
What is dissociation?
A pair of cell clusters in the hypothalamus that controls circadian rhythm.
What is the suprachiasmatic nucleus?
A sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping person's mind.
What is a dream?
A powerfully addictive drug that stimulates that central nervous system, with speeded-up body functions and associated energy and mood changes; over time, appears to reduce baseline dopamine levels.
What is methamphetamine?
A synthetic stimulant and mild hallucinogen. Produces euphoria and social intimacy, but with short-term health risks and longer -term harm to serotonin-producing neurons and to mood and cognition.
What is ecstasy?