Understanding Our Awareness
Our awareness of ourselves and our environment.
What is consciousness?
What is circadian rhythm?
Creating distraction which shifts attention away from the pain is used in this.
What is hypnosis? (Also will accept meditation)
Vivid hallucinations, intense sensory experiences, and feeling separated from one's own body typically occurs with the use of this psychedelic drug.
What is LSD?
Research shows that this altered state of consciousness is helpful for developing and preserving neural pathways in the brain.
What is dreaming?
What is behaviorism?
This hormone is released by this gland to make us sleepy.
What is melatonin? What is the pineal gland?
Three hours after Jane goes to sleep, both her heart rate and breathing increase, and her eyes shift back and forth under her closed eyelids. This suggests that Jane is ______ and is in this stage of sleep.
Dreaming; REM
Two factors that that can determine physical dependence on a drug.
What are tolerance and withdrawal?
This sleep disorder occurs when someone stops breathing in their sleep until the breathing reflex is triggered; it is noticeable by someone's snoring pattern.
What is sleep apnea?
The conscious mind process information this way; it's relatively slow.
What is sequentially?
The rhythmic bursts of brain activity that occur during stage 2 of sleep.
What are sleep spindles?
In both large and small doses, alcohol is classified as a _________.
What is a depressant?
When someone uses cocaine, the depressive crash after the high is due to depletion of norepinephrine, and these two other neurotransmitters.
What are dopamine and serotonin?
Biological rhythms impacting mood may be indicative of this disorder that occurs throughout late fall, and all of winter.
What is Seasonal Affective Disorder?
Unconscious processing occurs in this way; we process information simultaneously with multiple tasks.
What is parallel processing?
According to this theorist, when dreaming, manifest and latent content are important in dream analysis.
Who is Freud?
In this theory, dreams are mental responses to random bursts of neural stimulation.
What is activation-synthesis theory?
Repeated use of this category of drugs decreases the brain's reproduction of endorphins
What are opiates?
These typically occur during our deepest sleep, and it can look like the child is awake, but they are actually asleep while acting out/crying/walking.
What are night terrors?
These are two aspects of hypnosis that people report after undergoing the process; explain what each means for the full points (all or none).
What are posthypnotic suggestion and posthypnotic amnesia?
The large, slow waves associated with deep sleep are called _______. A relaxed, but still awake state, are indicated by _______ brain waves. And the sleep cycle is typically this long.
Delta; alpha; 90 minutes
This individual led people to judge hypnosis as being fake due to his influence on this altered state.
Who was Anton Mesmer?
Meth, caffeine, and cocaine all have this in common, as they excite neural activity and arouse body functions.
They are central nervous system stimulants.
Low levels of this hormone can lead to this sleep disorder, in which an individual has a very difficult time staying awake, even during the day.
What are hypocretin (orexin) and narcolepsy?