Study of Consciousness Sleep and Dreams Hypnosis Drugs Misc.
Biological functions that occur on a 24 hour cycle:
Circadian Rhythms
This is another name for REM sleep (because outside you look calm, but inside your body is going crazy)
Paradoxical Sleep
He is the psychologist who encouraged the study of dreams and interpretations
Sigmund Freud
About 15% of the population has trouble falling asleep, and staying asleep, and getting back to sleep. They have:
Insomnia
Preservation of memories and physical restoration are two primary reasons we do this:
Sleep
A sequence of bodily changes that occur every 24 hours is known as
Circadian rhythm
Breathing is slowed and brain ways become irregular
Stage 1
The most vivid dreams occur during _____________
REM Sleep
What is insomnia?
The inability to sleep
A person who falls asleep at any time, and with no warning, may be experiencing
Narcolepsy
A form of altered consciousness where a person becomes highly suggestible:
Hypnosis
A method through which people have learned to control some bodily functions such as heart rate is
Biofeedback
Freud said you must take these dreams at face value- this is the remembered story line of your dreams
Manifest content
A therapist may hypnotize a patient and offer a _____________ to help the patient quit a bad habit, relieve pain, stop eating, etc.
Posthypnotic suggestion
Freud said that these types of messages in our dreams had a hidden, underlying meaning
Latent content
A person who takes a drug for a while and then craves it just to feel normal is experiencing
An addiction
What are the drugs that slow the activity of the nervous system known as?
Depressants
Class of drugs that increase the central nervous system functioning
Stimulant
A depressant that calms and sedates, but does not reduce pain (anti- anxiety meds, sleep meds, etc)
Barbiturates
What is an example of a drug that produces hallucinations?
LSD
What are some of the psychological reasons people begin using drugs?
Lacking sense of purpose, significant stress, psychological disorders, etc.
What is the lightest stage of sleep?
Stage 1
Also known as our “biological clock”
Circadian Rhythm
During a typical 8 hours of sleep, people go through ________ cycles of sleep
Four/Five
What are some of the social- cultural influences on drug use?
Urban environment, peer usage, cultural attitude, etc.