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Consciousness |
The awareness and responsiveness to mental processes in the environment |
See, react |
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Waking consciousness |
Mental state that encompasses the thoughts, feelings, and perceptions that occur when we are awake and alert |
Mind. Heart. Sensation is ___ |
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Altered states of consciousness |
Mental states that differ noticeably from normal waking consciousness |
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Circadian rhythm |
Regular biological rhythm with a period of approximately 24 hours |
Clock |
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Suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) |
Cluster of neurons in the hypothalamus that receives information from the retina about light and dark cycles.
regulates the circadian rhythm
Regulate proteins related to metabolism and alertness |
Light in dark. Clock. Skinny/aware |
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Stages of sleep |
Stage 1: pulse slows, muscles relax, and eyes move from side to side. Easily awakened.
Stages 2 and 3: heart rate, blood pressure, and temperature continues to drop. Doesn’t respond to sound or light. Harder to awaken.
Stage 4: sleep, heart and breathing rates, body temperature, and blood pressure are at their lowest points of the night. |
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REM/ Paradoxical |
Sleep stage characterized by rapid eye movement and increased dreaming |
Rapid eye movement |
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NREM |
All stages that or not the REM |
Non--Rapid eye movement |
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Why is REM sleep also referred to as Paradoxical sleep? |
BECAUSE DURING REM SLEEP YOUR BODILY FUNCTIONS RESEMBLE THOSE OF AN AWAKE PERSON
Because of its similarities to wakefulness. The body is paralyzed, but the brain ask someone awake.
Cerebral neurons fire with the same intensity as in wakefulness |
In limbo |
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What diseases can sleep deprivation contribute to? |
Heart attacks asthma strokes high blood pressure diabetes depression being overweight. |
5+2 |
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Nightmares |
Frightening dreams that happened during the REM sleep cycle. Are remembered |
REM.ember |
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Night terrors |
Terrifying dreams that occur during NREM sleep, from which
a person is difficult to awaken and doesn’t remember the dream. |
N.REM.ember |
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Apnea |
Breathing difficulty during night in feeling of exhaustion during day |
Breathing and exhaustion |
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Narcolepsy |
Hereditary. Sudden nodding off during day and sudden loss of muscle tone following moments of excitement |
Mr. bean in rat race |
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Insomnia |
Difficulty falling asleep or remaining asleep during the night |
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Dreams |
Vivid visual and auditory experiences that primarily occur during REM sleep. |
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Sigmund Freud‘s theory on dreams |
Dreams represent unfulfilled wishes, and reflect people‘s motives guiding their behavior
Manifest: The surface content of the dream
Latent: The disguise in unconscious meaning of the dream |
Manifest and latent |
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Psychoactive drugs |
Chemical substances the change mood and perception |
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Substance abuse |
A pattern of drug use that negatively affects the ability to complete tasks at home, work, or school. Results in repeated drug consumption in dangerous situations that can sometimes lead to legal difficulties. |
Inhibition in daily life, repeated use |
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Substance dependence |
Pattern of compulsive drug taking that results in tolerance with drawl symptoms or other symptoms for at least a year |
Dependence |
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Withdrawal symptoms |
Unpleasant physical or psychological effects that follow the discontinuance of a psychoactive substance
Nervousness, difficulty concentrating, insomnia, drowsiness, headaches, irritability, cravings. |
Physical and psychological |
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Double-blind procedure |
One subject receives drugs in one does not, neither the researcher nor the participant know who is receiving the active drug |
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Placebo |
Chemically in active substance use for comparison with active drugs |
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Depressant |
Chemicals that slow down behavior or cognitive process. Slows down nerve impulses |
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Alcohol |
Calms down the nervous system and works like a general anesthetic. Inhibit centers of the brain that govern critical judgment and impulse behavior |
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Barbiturates |
Potentially deadly depressant formerly used as an anesthetic for surgeries but is now used to treat arthritis and epilepsy |
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Opiates |
Highly addictive drugs that does senses and produce feelings of euphoria and relaxation. Include opium, morphine, and heroin. |
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Stimulants |
Drugs that stimulate the sympathetic nerve system and produce feelings of optimism and energy making them highly addictive |
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Amphetamines |
Stimulant drugs that produce Russia’s of euphoria followed by immediate crashes of depression. Originally used to relieve asthma |
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Cocaine |
Stimulant. Comes from Coco plan, sense of the phoria, anxiety, depression and addictive cravings as a result |
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Hallucinogens |
Any number of drugs distort visual and auditory perception |
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Lethargic acid diethylamide LSD |
A hallucinogen/psychedelic drug, that produces hallucinations and delusions similar to those occurring in a psychotic state |
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Marijuana |
A mild hallucinogen that produces a high, often characterized by feelings of euphoria, a sense of well-being, and swings in mood
May also cause anxiety and paranoia |
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Meditation |
Any method of concentration, reflection, or focus of thought, intended to suppress the activity of the sympathetic nervous system |
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