An individuals awareness of external events and internal sensations under a condition of arousal.
What is conscious?
100
Involves controlled processing in which individuals actively focus their efforts on attaining a goal; the most alert state of consciousness.
What is Higher-level Consciousness?
100
a common sleep problem; inability to sleep.
What is insomnia?
100
Psychoactive drugs that slow down mental and physical activities.
What are depressants?
100
an altered state of consciousness or as a pschylogical state of altered attention and expectation in which the indiviadual is unusually receptive to suggestions.
What is hypnosis?
200
An individual's understanding that they and others think, feel, perceive, and have private experiences.
What is Theory of Mind?
200
Includes automatic processing that requires little attention as well as daydreaming.
What is Lower-level consciousness?
200
Formal term for sleepwalking; occurs during deepest stages of sleep.
What is somnambulism?
200
The most widely used depressants.
What are alcohol, barbiturates, tranquilizers, and opiates.
200
attaining peaceful state of mind in which thoughts are not occupied by worry; his or her thoughts and feelings are present but not consumed by them
What is meditation?
300
An active stage of sleep during which dreaming occurs.
What is REM sleep?
300
Can be produced by drugs, trauma, fatigue, possibly hypnosis and sensory deprivation.
What is Altered states of consciousness?
300
A frightening dream that awakens a dreamer from REM sleep.
What is a nightmare?
300
Psychoactive drugs that increase the central nervous system's activity.
What are stimulates?
300
Overindulgence in cafferine.
What is caffeinism?
400
According to Freud, a dream's hidden content; its unconscious and true meaning.
What is latent content?
400
Can occur when people are awake, as well as when they are sleeping and dreaming.
What is subconscious awareness?
400
A disorder that involves a sudden overpowering urge to sleep.
What is narcolepsy?
400
The most widely used stimulates.
What are caffeine, nicotine, amphetamines, and cocaine?
400
A strong desire to repeat the use of a drug for emotional reasons, such as a feeling of well-being and reduction of stress.
What is Psychological dependence?
500
According to Freud, the surface content of a dream, containing dream symbols that disguise the dream's true meaning.
What is manifest content?
500
Freud's belief that some unconscious thoughts are too laden with anxiety and other negative emotions for consciousness to admit them.
What is no awareness?
500
A sleep disorder in which an individual stops breathing because of windpipe fail to open or brain processes fail to work properly.
What is sleep apnea?
500
Psychoactive drugs that modify a person's perceptual experiences and produce visual images that are not real.
What are hallucinogens?
500
Theory saying we can understand dreaming by applying the same cognitive concepts we use in studying the waking mind.