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intro to psych vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| night terror | Sleep disorder- high arousal and terror; seldom remembered Can go right back to sleep |
| R.E.M | Rapid Eye Movement breath reg. BP up, heart beats faster |
| manifest content | The actual content of a dream (what is happening in the dream) |
| latent content | The unknown hidden meaning of dreams Freud’s belief that dreams come from what is in our subconscious |
| Central nervous system | Made up of the brain and the spinal cord and is the body’s decision maker |
| Peripheral nervous system | Controls all of the body’s voluntary and involuntary movements |
| somatic nervous system (sensory) | Sensory organs -Very little control over them |
| autonomic nervous system (automatic) | automatic - organs that we have no control over (heartrate, respiration, blood pressure |
| sympathetic nervous system | Prepares our body for fight or flight, pupils dilate, adrenaline increases, higher pain tolerance |
| Parasympathetic nervous system | Bring us back to norm Lower bp, regulates body, pain tolerance lowers |
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