Psychology Chapter 7

A person focuses his or her attention on an image or thought with the goal of clearing the mind and producing relaxation, or an inner peace

• Meditation

• Biofeedback

• Hypnotic Analgesia

• Daydreaming

Records the electrical activity in the brain

• Sleep Apnea

• Electro-encephalograph

• Circadian Rhythm

• Biofeedback

Causes frequent interruptions to breathing during sleep

• Narcolepsy

• Sleep Apnea

• Circadian Rhythm

• Hypnotic Analgesia

Permanent and overwhelming feeling of sleepiness and fatigue

• Narcolepsy

• Sleep Apnea

• Circadian Rhythm

• Hypnotic Analgesia

A form of altered consciousness in which people become highly suggestible to changes in behavior and thought

• Hypnosis

• Meditation

• Narcolepsy

• Consciousness

Used to reduce pain

• Sleep Apnea

• Electro-encephalograph

• Hypnotic Analgesia

• Biofeedback

Biological clock that is genetically programmed to regulate psychological responses within 24-25 hr time periods

• Narcolepsy

• Sleep Apnea

• Circadian Rhythm

• Hypnotic Analgesia

A prolonged and abnormal inability to obtain adequate sleep

• Insomnia

• Narcolepsy

• Sleep Apnea

• Nightmares

Requires a low level of awareness and involves idle but directed thinking, while we are awake

• Daydreaming

• Hypnosis

• Consciousness

• Circadian Rhythm

A technique in which a person learns to control his or her internal physiological processes with help of feedback

• Sleep Apnea

• Electro-encephalograph

• Hypnotic Analgesia

• Biofeedback