Attention
Fast and effortless processing that requires little or no focused attention.
What is automaticity?
A condition in which the sleeper rises during sleep and wanders about.
What is sleep walking?
Frightening and anxiety-arousing dreams that occur primarily during the REM stage of sleep.
What are nightmares?
Physical reactions, such as sweating, vomiting, changes in heart rate, or tremors, that occurs when a person stops taking certain drugs after continued use.
What are withdrawals?
A technique for self-induced manipulation of awareness, often used for the purpose of relaxation and self-reflection.
What is meditation?
A psychological disorder marked by difficulties in concentrating or in sustaining attention for extended periods.
What is attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder?
This state has symptoms such as slurred speech, sharp decline in mental ability, and development of hallucinations.
What is sleep deprivation?
The idea that dreaming helps us focus on our current problems in order to find a solution.
What is the theory of problem solving?
A class of drugs that slow the ongoing activity of the central nervous system. For example, barbiturates and ethyl alcohol.
What are depressants?
A form of social interaction that produces a heightened state of suggestibility in a willing participant.
What is hypnosis?
The ability to focus on one auditory message and ignore others.
What is the cocktail party effect?
Brian structures that schedule rhythmic variations in bodily functions by triggering them at the appropriate times.
What are biological clocks?
The two components Freud found in dreams that need to be distinguished to understand the true meaning of dreams.
What are manifest content and latent content?
A class of drugs that increases the central nervous system activity, enhancing neural transmission. For example, caffeine and amphetamines.
What are stimulants?
The supposed enhancement in memory that occurs under hypnosis.
What is hypnotic hypermnesia?
Different auditory messages are presented separately and simultaneously to each ear. The subject's task is to repeat aloud one message while ignoring the other.
What is dichotic listening?
A rare sleep disorder characterized by sudden extreme sleepiness.
What is narcolepsy?
The theory, made by Freud, that dreaming is a psychological mechanism to satisfy forbidden desires.
What is wish fulfillment?
A class of drugs that reduce anxiety, lower sensitivity to pain, elevates moods, and act to depress nervous system activity.
What are opiates?
A hypnotically induced splitting of consciousness during which multiple forms of awareness coexist.
What is hypnotic dissociation?
Messages presented at levels so hard to detect that they bypass conscious awareness.
What are subliminal influences?
A stage of sleep characterized by rapid eye movements and low-amplitudes, irregular EEG patterns resembling those found in the waking brain.
The idea that dreaming is a consequence of random activity that occurs in the brain during REM sleep. The brain creates a story to make sense of these random signals.
What is the theory of activation synthesis?
A class of drugs that tend to disrupt normal mental and emotional functioning, including distorting perception and altering reality.
What are hallucinogens?
The idea that no one is actually hypnotized, they are more playing a role about what they know about hypnosis.
What is social role playing?