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| A study design in which behavior is observed following the presence or absence of an actual stimulus and also following the presence or absence of a placebo stimulus. |
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| Rebound Effect of Thought Suppression |
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| The tendency of a thought to return to consciousness with greater frequency following suppression |
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| The mental processess that give rise to the persons thought, choices, emotions, and behavior even though they are not experienced by the person |
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| An altered state of consciousness characterized by suggestibility and the feeling that ones actions are occuring involuntarily |
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| The attempt to change conscious states of mind |
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| A distinct level of consciousness in which the persons attention is drawn to the self as an object |
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| A task in which people wearing headphones hear different messages presented to each other |
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| How thigns seem to the conscious person |
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| The leaves and buds of the hemp plant |
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| An instrument that measures eye movements |
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| The experience of waking up an not being to move |
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| A dream true underlying meaning |
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| A naturally occuring 24hour cycle |
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| Altered states of consciousness |
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| Forms of experience taht depart from the normal subjective experiences of the world and mind |
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| Substances that excite the central nervous system, heightening arousal and activity levels |
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| The reduction of pain through hypnosis in people who are susceptible to hypnosis |
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| A stage of sleep characterized by rapid eye movements and a high level of brain activity |
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| Highly addictive drugs derived from opium that relieve pain |
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| An active system encompassing a lifetime of hidden memories, the person�s deepest instincts and desires, and the person�s inner struggle to control these forces |
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| The issue of how the mind is related to the brain and body |
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| Consciousness in which you know and are able to report your mental state |
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| The failure to retrieve memories following hypnotic suggestions to forget |
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| Ironic Processes of Mental Control |
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| Mental processes that can produce ironic errors because monitoring for errors can itself produce them |
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| A thought or behavior that is influenced by stimuli that a person cannot consciously report perceiving |
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| A dreams apparent topic or superficial meaning |
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| The fundamental difficulty we have in perceiving the consciousness of others |
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| The idea that alcohol effects can be produced by people�s expectations of how alcohol will influence them in particular situations |
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| A low-level kind of sensory awareness and responsiveness that occurs when the mind inputs sensations and may output behavior |
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| The tendency for larger doses of a drug to be required over time to achieve the same effect |
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| The conscious avoidance of a thought |
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| A response to high-risk behaviors that focuses on reducing the harm such behaviors have on people�s lives |
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| Difficulty in falling asleep or staying asleep |
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| A condition that results when alcohol hampers attention, leading people to respond in simple ways to complex situations |
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| A chemical that influences consciousness or behavior by altering the brain�s chemical message system |
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| Drugs that alter sensation and perception and often cause visual and auditory hallucinations |
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| A mental process that removes unacceptable thoughts and memories from consciousness |
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| The practice of intentional contemplation |
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The quality of being directed toward an object.
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| Resistance to division. Ex when you try to attend to more than one thing at a time. You may wishfully think that you can study and watch tv simultaneously but you can'tcan't |
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The capacity to include some objects but not others. Ex dichotic listening and cockatiel party phenomenon
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| Tendency to change ex the 3d square |
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