Chapter 5
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Dualism | believe humans (and the universe in general) consist of two materials: thought and matter |
| Monism | believe everything is the same substance and thought and matter are aspects of the same substance |
| mere-exposure effect | occurs when we prefer stimuli we have seen before over novel stimuli |
| priming | research participants respond more quickly and.or accurately to questions they have seen before |
| blind sight | people who report being blind can accurately describe the path of a moving object or accurately grasp objects they say they can't see |
| circadian rhythm | the pattern our metabolic and thought processes follow |
| sleep onset | period when we are falling asleep |
| rapid eye movement (REM) | period of intense activity in the brain while sleeping; the eyes dart back and forth and many muscles may twitch repeatedly |
| paradoxical sleep | REM stage; our brain waves appear as active and intense as they do when we are awake |
| Insomnia | sleep disorder; person has persistent problems getting to or staying asleep at night |
| Narcolepsy | people suffer from periods of intense sleepiness and may fall asleep at unpredicted and inappropriate times |
| Sleep apnea | causes a person to stop breathing for short periods of time during the night |
| night terrors | a child waking up in the middle of the night and screaming and moving around |
| Somnambulism | sleep walking |
| manifest content | literal content of dreams |
| latent content | unconscious meaning of the manifest content in dreams |
| protected sleep | even during sleep, our ego protects us from the material in the unconscious mind (Freud) |
| activation-synthesis theory | looks at dreams first as biological phenomena |
| split-brian patients | sometimes make up elaborate explanations for behaviors caused by their operation, which may transfer into their dreams |
| information-processing theory | points out that stress during the day will increase the number and intensity of dreams during the night |
| posthypnotic amnesia | people report forgetting events that occurred while they were hypnotized |
| posthypnotic suggestion | a suggestion that a hypnotized person behave in a certain way after he or she is brought out of hypnosis |
| role theory | hypnosis is not an alternate state of consciousness |
| hypnotic suggestibility | some people are more easily hypnotized than others |
| state theory | hypnosis meets some parts of the definition for an altered state of consciousness |
| dissociation theory | hypnosis causes us to divide our consciousness voluntarily |
| blood-brain barrier | thicker walls surrounding the brain's blood vessels that protect it from harmful chemicals in the bloodstream |
| antagonists | drugs that block neurotransmitters |
| tolerance | physiological change that produces a need for more of the same drug in order to achieve the same effect |
| withdrawal | symptoms that occur when someone stops using a drug they've built up a tolerance for |
| stimulants | speed up body processes |
| depressants | slow down the body systems |
| hallucinogens/psychedelics | cause changes in perceptions of reality |
| reverse tolerance | when someone ingest a hallucinogen a second time while the first one is still in the body, the new dose of the chemical is added to the lingering amount and cause the same or greater effects |
| opiates | act as agonists fro endorphins and thus are powerful painkillers and mood elevators |
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