Levels Of Consciousness
Research participants respond more quickly to questions they have seen before, even if they do not remember seeing it.
What is priming.
A 24 hour cycle of our metabolic and thought processes following a certain pattern.
What is circadian rhythm.
The series of images we experience while we sleep.
What are dreams.
Drugs that enable reactions to occur, take place of neurotransmitters.
What are agonists.
Two factors in a sound wave that effect how loud and high pitched a noise is.
What is frequency and amplitude.
Being aware of your environment and surroundings.
What is the conscious level.
Rapid eye movement, eye muscles twitch during sleep.
What is REM.
Was interested in the unconscious mind, believed dreams told of our desires.
Who is Sigmund Freud.
Feeling physically impaired from having lack of a chemical drug, such as head aches or dizziness.
What is withdrawal.
Lobes associated with hearing, next to the ears.
What are the temporal lobes.
The levels of consciousness.
What is conscious, nonconscious, preconscious, subconcious, unconcious.
Waves that occur during deep sleep, start in stage 3.
What are delta waves.
Thought process that dreams can tell what is on a persons mind.
What is Freudian Psychoanalysis.
Drugs/chemicals (also called psychedelics) that cause a change in perception of reality.
What are hallucinogens.
Every member of the population has an equal chance of being selected for an experiment.
What is random selection.
Preferring stimuli we have seen before over stimuli we haven't.
What is mere exposure.
Sleep spindles occur during this stage.
What is stage 2.
Proposes that dreams are nothing more than the brain's interpretations of what is happening during REM sleep.
What is the activation-synthesis theory.
Drugs that speed up body processes, and arouse the automatic nervous system.
What are stimulants.
Removal or destruction of the brain.
What is lesioning.
Events and feelings unacceptable to our mind.
What is unconscious.
Relaxed brain waves while a person is awake.
What are alpha waves.
Theory that stress throughout the day can effect dreams we have at night, by the intensity and number.
What is the information-processing theory.
Opiates are used for this in the medical world.
What are painkillers.
Detects brain waves, researchers can see what type of brain waves occur during different stages of sleep.
What is an Electroencephalogram (EEG)