Psychology Terms
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- depressants
- drugs that slow down the nervous system.
- hypnosis
- altered state of conciousness characterized by deep relaxation and suggestibility which a person voluntarily enters through the efforts of a hypnotist
- altered states of conciousness
- deviations in subjective experience froma normal working state
- sleep disorders
- chronic syndromw of disrupted sleep
- latent content
- accorsding to freuds dram theory the meaning that underlies the symbolism in a dream
- hallucinogens
- drugs that produce hallucinations; LCD, PCP, shrooms
- stimulants
- drugs that increase alertness, energy, and autonomis reactivity.
- manifest content
- the obvious story line of a dream
- REM sleep
- period of sleep during which darting eye movement occur, autonomic activity increases, and patterns of brain activity resemble those observed in waking states.
- stage 4 sleep
- mostly delta waves
- stage 3 sleep
- the first appearance of delta waves
- stage 2 sleep
- marked by sleep spindles
- stage 1 sleep
- the transition into sleep
- circadian rhythm
- biological rhythms that evolved aorund the daily cycles of light and dark
- repression
- defense mechanism in which thoughts that are too anxiety-provoking to acknowlege are kept from concious awareness.
- daydreaming
- part of the flow of consciousness in which attention turns from external stimuli to internal thoughts
- attention
- the process of focusing conciousness on a limited range of experience.
- awareness
- a continuum of experience that ranges from conciousness to peripheral awareness.