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| Alternate States of Consciousness | Waking state other than ordinary consciousness; in sleep, dreaming, use of psychactive drugs, hypnosis. |
| Consciousness | Organism's awareness of its own self and surroundings |
| Automatic Processes | Mental activities requiring minimal attention, listening to radio, driving car |
| Controlled Processes | Require focused attention, and generally interfere with ongoing activities. |
| Activation- Synthesis Hypthesis | Idea that dreams are by-products of random stimulation of brain cells. |
| Circadian Rhythms | Biological changes that occur on a 24 hour cycle |
| Evolutionary/Circadian Theory | Theory that sleep is part of circadian rhythms and evolved as a means of conserving energy and protecting people from predators. |
| Insomnia | Sleep disorder in which a person has persistent problems in falling asleep or awakens too early. |
| Latent Content | The true, unconscious meaning of a dream according to Freudian dream theory |
| Manifest Content | The surface content of a dream, containing dream symbols that distort and disguise meaning of dream according to Freudian dream theory. |
| Narcolepsy | A disease marked by sudden and irrestible onsets of sleep during normal waking hours |
| Nightmares | Anxiety arousing dreams that occur near the end of the sleep cycle, during REM sleep. |
| Night terrors | Abrupt awakenings from non-REM sleep, feelings of panic |
| REM | 5th Stage of sleep marked by rapid eye movements, high frequency brain waves, and dreaming. |
| Repair/Restoration Theory | Theory that sleep serves as a recuperative function, allowing organisms to repair or replenish key factors in the brain or body that are depleted during daytime actovities. |
| Sleep apnea | A temporary breathing during sleep; causes snoring, SIDS, high blood pressure, heart damage. |
| Agonist | Chemical or drug that mimics the action of a specific neurotransmitter. |
| Antagonist | chemical or drug that opposes the block or action of neurotransmitter. |
| Depressants | Psychactive drugs that supress CNS, slow bodily processes, reduce overall responsiveness |
| Designer Drugs | Illicitly manufactured or known recreational drugs. |
| Drug abuse | Drug taking that causes emotional or physical harm to the drug user or others. |
| Hallucinogens | Drugs that produce sensory or perceptual distortions. LSD, Larijuana |
| Opiates | Drugs derived from opium and function as a pain reliever. |
| Physical dependence | Condition in which bodily processes have been so modified by a drug that continued use is required to prevent withdrawl symptoms. |
| Psychoactive drugs | Chemicals that affect the NS and cause a change in behavior, mental processes, and conscious experience. |
| Psychological dependence | Desire or craving to achieve the effects produced by a drug. |
| Stimulants | Increase CNS, cocaine, caffeine, nicotine |
| Tolerance | Decreased sensitivity to drug brought about by its continuous use. |
| Withdrawl | Discomfort, Distress including physical pain and intense cravings, experienced after stopping the use of addictive drugs. |
| Hypnosis | Alternate state of consciousness characterized by relaxation and intense focus. |
| Meditation | Group of techniques designed to focus attention and produce a heightened sense of awareness |
