States of Consciousness

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Across
  1. 2. drugs that are powerful painkillers and mood elevators
  2. 3. causes a person to stop breathing for a short period during sleep
  3. 6. Stores sensations, memories, inferences, and assumptions that are not at the conscious level but that can be easily brought into consciousness
  4. 9. Body processes controlled by the mind that take place without an individual's attention
  5. 16. holds that the number of, and content of dreams is dependent on the amount of stress during waking hours
  6. 17. information that an individual is not aware of but that is said to exist due to clues in behavior
  7. 18. a disruption of the circadian rhythm
  8. 19. according to Freud, the literal content of a dream
  9. 21. attributes dreaming to the random firing of neurons during sleep
  10. 22. non-REM sleep that occurs soon after falling asleep
  11. 23. Night Terrors
  12. 24. deepest level of sleep during which sleepwalking and sleep talking can occur
  13. 26. believed to store memories and feelings that are unacceptable to the conscious mind and are therefore repressed
  14. 27. drugs that speed-up bodily processes
Down
  1. 1. states that hypnosis is an actual altered state of consciousness
  2. 4. periods of intense sleepiness possibly causing REM sleep at unpredictable or undesired times
  3. 5. Sleepwalking
  4. 7. theory that hypnosis causes a voluntary division of consciousness between "hypnosis" and reality
  5. 8. the waking-sleep pattern that roughly corresponds to a 24-hour day
  6. 10. drugs that can cause changes in a person's perceptions of reality
  7. 11. drugs that slow down the body's systems
  8. 12. the inability to fall asleep or maintain a restful sleep
  9. 13. drugs that change the chemistry of the brain and induce an altered state of consciousness
  10. 14. non-REM sleep when the brain pattern changes to delta waves, which indicate that neurons are in a resting pattern
  11. 15. Holds the information about self and environment that an individual is aware of from moment to moment
  12. 17. sleep onset, a state between wakefulness and sleep including hypnagogic hallucinations
  13. 20. according to Freud, the unconscious meaning of a dream's manifest content
  14. 25. some people are more easily hypnotized than others, they have a high hypnotic suggestibility