| A | B |
|---|
| consciousness | awareness of surroundings, can be altered through hypnosis, bio-feedback, sleep, drugs, meditation |
| Circadian Rhythm | sleep pattern; unique to self |
| Beta Waves | Awake waves; low amplitude, high frequency |
| alpha waves | drifting off waves; high amplitude, low frequency |
| delta waves | deep sleep; large slow waves |
| Non REM | 4 stages that progress from light to heavy |
| REM | dreams occur; occurs 90 minutes into sleep; 90 minutes of this sleep all together |
| Orthodox (nREM) | sleep for mind; stages 1-4; higher level functionings resting, but muscles still tense |
| Paradoxical (REM) | sleep for body; body relaxed, brain is very active |
| sleep deprivation | deprived of REM or total sleep; tendency for REM rebound; symptoms include general disorientation, increase sensitivity to pain |
| Microsleep | brief seizures of sleep; eyes are open |
| restoration theory | one of sleep's purposes is to restore the body; tissue repair, hormones and NTs produced |
| Insomnia | difficulty sleeping |
| Classical insomnia | cannot stay asleep |
| situational insomnia | difficulty getting to sleep |
| pseudoinsomnia | dream that cannot get to sleep; wake feeling tired |
| sleep apnea | breathing related disorder where one stops breathing while sleeping |
| Narcolepsy | suddenly and unexpectedly fall asleep; set off by strong emotions |
| Somnabulism | sleepwalking; runs in families; occurs in twilight zone between REM and nREM sleep |
| Entrainment | work with body to train a sleep cycle |
| Freud | Wish fulfillment hypothesis; have sexual and aggressive urges, but cannot act in conscious level because it is too immoral; repressed into dreams |
| condensation | replacing objects and people with other people |
| displacement | take feelings with one person and place it on another |
| symbolization | universal symbols in dreams |
| secondary elaboration | wake up from dream and fill in missing parts |
| manifest content | surface of dream, what you tell others about dream |
| latent content | true meaning of dream; what dreams really mean |
| Jung | believes dreams are wisdomatic; hidden door to soul; what you see is what you get; universal dreams |
| Cartwright | network model; purpose of dreams is to problem solve in a non-threatening way |
| Hobson -McCarly | Activation synthesis hypothesis; dreams are random neural firing of brain and is biologically based |
| Hall | information processing theory; purpose of dreaming is processing daily info. |
| lucid dreaming | start to control the dream |
| perseveration | idea that mind will bring troubled situations until solved |
| nightmares | occur in REM sleep; more likely to have them during stressful periods |
| Repetition compulsion | Freud believed that until painful experience is dealt with, nightmares will reoccur |
| incubus attack/night terror | occurs in nREM, stage four; actually scream as though in pain |
| daydream | conscious fantasy; willful control; mainly about money and love |
| hypnosis | alter consciousness; possible therapeutic technique; only work if want it to work; form of meditation |
| hypersuggestibility | heightened state of suggestibility |
| depressants | slows down the central nervous system; alcohol |
| narcotics | stimulate endorphins; relieve pain; heroin, crack cocaine |
| stimulants | drugs which increase the cns activity |
| hallucinogens | drugs which produce hallucinations |
| biofeedback | using mind to control body function; ex: bp, heartrate |
| Wm James | states of consciousness theory |
