Biological Rhythms
It is natural variations in biological functions, hormonal activity, temperature, and sleep that typically cycle every twenty-four to twenty-five hours.
What is biological rhythms or circadian rhythms?
What is the latent content?
It is a state of altered consciousness characterized by a deep relaxation and detachment, as well as heightened suggestibility to the hypnotist’s directives.
What is hypnosis?
It is changes in physiological and behavioral states caused by a stimulus or stimulus context (Many of our emotions are experienced as feelings or moods.)
What are emotions?
It is is a pattern of hormonal and physiological responses that accompany threatening events.
What is stress?
The distinct stages of sleep where rapid eye movements do not occur (HINT: there are four).
What is the NREM sleep?
The sleep disorder whereby a person falls asleep suddenly and uncontrollably.
What is narcolepsy?
A theory by Ernest Hilgard which says our behaviors become separated from or dissociated from our awareness.
What is dissociation theory?
It is a theory that we perceive and interpret a particular stimulus that gives rise to an emotion, which then triggers a behavior (response and body movements).
What is the commonsense view of emotion?
It is a progressive response to prolonged exposure to stressful events during which an organism mobilizes for action and compensates for stress. It occurs over three stages.
What is General Adaptation Syndrome?
It is a set of neural circuits extending from the lower brain up to the thalamus that plays a critical role in controlling arousal and alertness.
What is the Reticular Activating System (RAS)?
The researcher who did a classic study where sleep-deprived subjects demonstrated a number of effects not shown by a control group, including irritability, anxiety, hostility, aggression, and they had trouble concentrating on tasks.
Who is William Dement?
It is a lack of awareness of or attention to stimuli on one side of the body when damage has occurred to the opposite-side parietal lobe.
What is sensory neglect?
He stated that each emotional “state of mind” was associated with a stereotyped set of reactions that were common with each species.
Who is Charles Darwin?
It is a stress hormone released by the adrenal glands that is known to decrease immune functioning and increase disease susceptibility.
What is cortisol?
It is a theory of sleep that we are prohibited from interacting with the environment at times when we are not physiologically suited to function adaptively.
What is the theory of predation?
A sleep disorder that is characterized by irregular breathing during sleep from the soft palate falling into the throat and closing the airway. This disorder needs to be diagnosed by a sleep study.
What is sleep apnea?
It is the predisposition to attend to a hypnotist’s suggestions.
What is hypnotic suggestibility?
It is a theory which proposes that feedback from facial muscles intensifies the feeling of an emotion
What is the facial feedback theory?
It is the factors that affect stress. (HINT: there are three in the textbook).
What are lack of control, suddenness, and ambiguity?
Which of the following functions of sleep would be more applicable to a person barely surviving in a Third World country in the midst of famine than to a typical American?
According to Freud, these are disguised expressions of wishes that have been repressed.
What are dreams?
It is a suggestion or instruction to a hypnotized person that motivates that person to perform an action or actions after returning to a normal state of consciousness.
What is posthypnotic suggestion?
It is a pattern of emotional deficit seen after damage to the amygdala.
What is Klüver-Bucy syndrome?
He said stress was a process of appraising events, of assessing one’s potential to control or cope with the event, and continuing reappraisal as new information becomes available.
Who is Lazarus?