Attention
The internal processes used to set priorities for mental functioning.
What is attention?
The amount of stages of sleep that happen in the full 90 minute cycle.
What is 4?
A sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping person's mind.
What is dreams?
Drugs that affect behavior and mental processes through alterations of conscious awareness.
What is psychoactive drugs?
True or False: researchers are still not sure whether hypnosis is truly an altered state or a kind of social play acting.
What is true?
A psychological disorder marked by difficulties in concentrating or in sustaining attention.
What is ADHD(attention deficit hyperactivity disorder)
The machine that studies sleep
What is an EEG?
True or False: REM sleep is strongly correlated with the recall of dreams.
What is true?
Adaptations made by the body to compensate for the continued use of a drug.
What is tolerance?
A technique for self-induced manipulation of awareness.
What is meditation?
What is automaticity?
The amount of time a full cycle of sleep lasts.
What is 90 minutes.
Terrifying experiences that mainly occur during childhood in which the sleeper suddenly wakes up in extreme panic.
What is night terrors?
Name 3 categories of psychoactive drugs
What is depressants, stimulants, opiates, hallucinogens(name any 3)
A form of social interaction that produces a heightened state of suggestibility in a willing participant.
What is hypnosis?
The cocktail party effect
What is the ability to focus on one auditory message and ignore others?
3 disorders of sleep
What are insomnia, hypersomnia, narcolepsy, nightmares, night terrors, sleepwalking?(can say any 3)
Nightmares are
What are frightening dreams that occur during the REM stage of sleep?
The difference between depressants and stimulants
What is depressants slows or depress the central nervous system and stimulants increase the activity?
A hypnotically induced splitting of consciousness during an already existing multiple forms of consciousness.
What is hypnotic dissociation?
Dichotic listening
What is having to ignore one message while ignoring the other?
REM rebound
What is the tendency to increase time spent in REM sleep after REM deprivation?
What Freud's theory states about dreams.
What is dreams provided the easiest road to understanding the unconscious mind?
The main characteristics of opiates are depress nervous system activity(reduce anxiety), lowering sensitivity to pain, and...
What is elevate mood?
The EEG of someone in a hypnotic state resembles
What is a person in a relaxed waking state?