Ch. 5 Psychology Vocabulary

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when you start focusing on a particular stimulus

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Selective Attention

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awareness of things inside and outside ourselves.

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Consciousness

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ideas that are not in your awareness at that moment, but if you had to recall them you could

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Preconsciousness

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 is unavailable to awareness under most circumstances
Options: Preconsciousness, Unconscious, Nonconscious, Consciousness

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Unconscious

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information that you can see, but no matter how hard you try, you can feel it (like fingernails growing, or your pupils dilating)

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Nonconscious

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a person's sense of self or sense of the world changes

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Altered state of consciousness

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exists in all animals and plants. They govern the “biological clocks” The latin word “circa” means “about”, and “dies” means “a day”

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Circadian Rhythm

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 when our eyelids are closed, our eyes move rapidly
Dreams occur during this stage of sleep.

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REM (Rapid Eye Movement) Sleep

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is the inability to sleep

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Insomnia

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similar, but more severe to nightmares

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Night Terror