PSYCB1003 Crossword - Topic 8
Across
- 9. a phenomenon brought on by special techniques and characterised by varying degrees of responsiveness to suggestions for changes in experience and behaviour
- 10. theories proposing that hypnosis creates an altered state of consciousness
- 11. a theory that combines aspects of role and state theories; hypnotised individuals enter into a social contract with the hypnotist to allow normally integrated mental processes to become dissociated and to share control over these processes
- 13. the characteristics of consciousness at any particular moment
- 14. a substance that acts on the brain to cause some psychological effect
- 15. Stimulants are a class of drugs that speed up messages travelling between the brain and body. They can make a person feel more awake, alert, confident or energetic. Stimulants include caffeine, nicotine, amphetamines and cocaine.
- 16. the study of psychoactive drugs and their effects
Down
- 1. theories, such as role theory, proposing that hypnosis does not create an altered state of consciousness
- 2. a condition in which changes in mental processes are extensive enough that a person or others notice significant differences in psychological and behavioural functioning
- 3. psychoactive drugs that alter consciousness by producing a temporary loss of contact with reality and changes in emotion, perception and thought
- 4. the level of consciousness at which mental activities that people are normally aware of occur
- 5. the degree to which a person responds to hypnotic suggestions
- 6. a drug or other agent that slows the activity of vital organs of the body. Depressants acting on the central nervous system include general anesthetics, opiates, alcohol, and hypnotics.
- 7. the awareness of external stimuli and our own mental activity
- 8. a level of mental activity that is inaccessible to conscious awareness
- 12. a level of mental activity that is not currently conscious but of which we can easily become conscious