Vocabulary
A state of awareness, including a person’s feelings, sensations, ideas and perceptions.
Consciousness
a stage of sleep characterized by rapid eye movements, a high level of brain activity, a deep relaxation of the muscles, and dreaming.
(Rapid Eye Movement) REM Sleep
A state of consciousness resulting from a narrowed focus of attention and characterized by heightened suggestibility.
Hypnosis
Chemicals that affect the nervous system and result in altered consciousness.
Psychoactive drugs
Awareness
Consciousness
Walking or carrying out behaviors while asleep.
Sleep walking
Most night terrors happen suring this stage
Stage 4, deep sleep
Hypnotists can suggest things for their participants to remember or forget when the trance is over. This is known as...
Posthypnotic suggestion
This drug is considered a hallucinogen and users often become psychologically addicted to it.
Marijuana
Memories that can be easily retrieved
Preconscious
A condition characterized by suddenly failing asleep or feeling very sleepy during the day.
Narcolepsy
Effects of sleep deprivation
Elevated blood pressure, tiredness, irritability, lack of memory, weight gain
What is the most commonly used stimulant today?
Caffeine
What is the most commonly used depressant in the USA?
Alcohol
Trauma, fears, shameful desires
Unconscious
A prolonged and usually abnormal inability to obtain adequate sleep—has many causes and takes many forms. It may be caused by anxiety or depression. Overuse of alcohol or drugs can also cause this.
Insomnia
Why is a good night sleep important for learning?
Short term memory is transferred to long term memory
Uses of hypnosis in therapy
Pain management, recalling memories, dealing with addictions
Stimulant drug prescribed for weight loss and as treatment for ADHD
Amphetamines
Any mental process or activity that goes on in which the individual is unaware.
Non conscious
The process of learning to control bodily states with the help of machines monitoring the states to be controlled.
Biofeedback
When we travel and experience "jet lag" we feel a little disoriented because of the time difference. Which concept explains the disorentiation?
This feeling happens when our internal circadian rhythms do not match the external clock time.
Meditation use in therapy
Relaxation, reducing high blood pressure
Why do people become addicted to opiates?
Opiates produce analgesia, or pain reduction; euphoria, which is sometimes described as a pleasurable state somewhere between awake and asleep.
Changes in perception, the sense of time, or the sense of place, awareness, memory, thinking, behavior, emotions, or self-control.
Altered state