Consciousness (chapter 4)

2. a sleep disorder that affects 30% of American adults, causing difficulty falling asleep
4. a sleep disorder in which a person may fall asleep suddenly, without warning
5. a form of meditation with no spiritual goals
7. the act of focusing your thought to alter your relation to the world
13. substances that are able to alter your perception of reality
14. chemical compounds consisting of hydrogen and carbon, found in cigarettes
17. memories that are consciously removed from our awareness are:
19. ________ hypothesis, if we are preoccupied during the day, then we are more likely to dream of that.
20. ____ theory, an explanation of hypnosis
21. stage of sleep linked to dreaming, where the eyes dart around
22. ideas that are not in awareness, but can be brought into awareness are:
24. were higher doses of a drug are required to achieve the same effect

1. ideas that are unavailable to awareness most of the time are:
3. a sleep disorder in which a person stops breathing during sleep
6. ________ Rythm, a cycle of wakefulness and sleep
8. a drug that lowers the rate of activity in the nervous system
9. A state of being aware of the outside events, inner thoughts, and the waking state
10. an altered state of consciousness in which people are highly suggestible
11. describes bodily processes that we cannot directly experience, hair growth or neurons firing
12. _______ set theory, similar to role theory, suggests that expectation influences hypnosis
15. _________ meditation, a form of meditation that uses mantras to guide meditation
16. characterizes the first four stages of sleep
18. a drug that increases the rate of activity in the nervous system
23. memories that are automatically kept from our awareness are: