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| Our level of awareness about ourselves and the environment | Consciousness |
| Levels of Consciousness | Conscious, Non-Conscious, Preconscious, Subconscious, Unconscious |
| The information of which you are currently aware | Conscious |
| Body's processes of which you are aware; heartbeat, respiration, indigestion | Nonconscious |
| Info that you're not currently thinking about, but could bring to the conscious level | Preconscious |
| Info that you're not aware of, but must exist because behavior reveals it | Subconscious |
| Events and feelings are unacceptable to the conscious mind and are repressed into the unconscious | Unconscious |
| A historical discussion about conscious centers | Dualism vs. Monism |
| The belief that the mind and the body are distinct entities ; the mind and spirit continues to exist after death | Dualism |
| The belief that the mind and body are the same | Monism |
| A body's synchronization with the 24 hour cycle of the day; body's natural day would be 25 hours | Circadian Rhythm |
| Measures brain activity during sleep | EEG |
| Period when falling asleep | Sleep Onset |
| Stages of sleep | Alpha waves, slowing of waves, transition, delta sleep , REM sleep |
| Waves of sleep similar to when we are awake; lasts about 5 minutes | Alpha Waves |
| Bursts of rapid brain activity | Sleep Spindles |
| Slow brain waves; the slower the wave, the deeper the sleep | Delta Sleep |
| Rapid eye movement about one hour after falling asleep | REM Sleep |
| What happens after one hour of sleep | Pass back through stages 3 and 2 |
| Brain waves appear as active and intense as when awake | Paradoxical Sleep |
| Length of REM Sleep | About 10 minutes |
| Length of sleep cycle | About 90 minutes |
| Chemicals that change the chemistry of the brain and body and induce an altered state of consciousness | Psychoactive Drugs |
| Protection of the brain from harmful chemicals in the bloodstream with thicker walls that surround the brain's blood vessels; some molecules of drugs are small enough to get through | Blood Brain Barrier |
| Drugs that mimic neurotransmitters | Agonists |
| Drugs that block neurotransmitters | Antagonists |
| What tolerance leads to | Withdrawal Syndrome |
| the causation of drugs to physiologically change the production of a need for more of the same drug | Tolerance |
| A person thinking he/she must have the drug | Psychological Dependency |
| Physical withdrawal syndromes after the body develops the need for the drug | Physical Dependency |
| Common Categories of Drugs | Stimulants, Depressants, Hallucinogens, Opiates |
| Examples of Stimulants | Caffeine, Cocaine, Nicotine, Amphetamines |
| Drugs that speed up body processes and produce euphoria; cause tremors and withdrawal symptoms | Stimulants |
| Rush of confidence, feelings of invincibility | Euphoria |
| Examples of Depressants | Alcohol, Barbiturates, Tranquilizers |
| Drugs that slow down body processes, reactions and judgement; cause tremors and withdrawal symptoms | Depressants |
| Psychedelic drugs, cause changes in perception of reality, linger in body for weeks | Hallucinogens |
| Examples of Hallucinogens/Psychedelics | LSD, Marijuana, Mushrooms |
| Derived from opium from the poppy plant, act as antagonists for endorphins and are powerful pain killers and mood elevators; some of the most painfully addictive drugs | Opiates |
| Examples of Opiates | Morphine, Heroin, Methadone, Codeine |
| A sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping persons mind | Dreams |
| The remembered story line of a dream | Manifest Content |
| The underlying meaning of a dream | Latent Content |
| Dreams help us sort out the day's events and consolidate our memories | Information-Processing |
| Regular brain stimulation from REM Sleep may help develop and preserve neural pathways | Physiological Function |
