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Postive psychology

The scientific study of human flourishing, with the goals of promoting strengths and virtues that foster well-being. Resilience, and positive emotions, and that help individuals and communities to thrive

Posttramatic growth

Postive psychological changes following a struggle with extremely challenging circumstances and life crises

Psychoneuroimmunology

The study of how psychological neural, and endocrine processes together affect or immune system and resulting in health

Sleep

A periodic, natural loss of consciousness as distinct from unconsciousness resulting from a coma, general anesthesia or hibernation

Subjective well-being

Self perceived happiness or satisifaction with life. Used a long with measures of objective well-being (for ex) physical and economic indicators) to evaluate people’s quality of life.

Processing

Parallel- processing multiple aspects of a stimulus or problem stimultaneously, Sequential- processing one aspect of a stimulus or problem at a time; generally used to process new info or to solve difficult problems

Hallucinations

False sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus

Hypnagogic sensations

Bizarre experiences such as jerking or a feeling of falling or floating weightlessly, while transitioning to sleep (also called hyponic sensations).

Health psychology

A subfield of psychology that explores the impact of psychological, behavioral, and cultural factors on health and wellness

Circadian rhythm

Our biological clock; regular bodily rhythms (for ex, of temp and wakefulness) that occur on a 24-hour cycle

Resilience

The personal strength that helps ppl cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma

waves

Delta- the large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep, Alpha- the relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state

Aerobic excercise

sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness; also helps alleviate anxiety

consciousness

Our subjective awareness of ourselves and our environment

cognitive neuroscience

The interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition

mindfulness mediation

a reflective practice in which people attend to current experiences in a non-judgemental and accepting manner

Dual processing

The principle that information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tasks

REM sleep

Rapid eye movement sleep; a recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur. Also known as paradoxical sleep, because the muscles are relaxed and the other body systems are active.

blindsight

A condition in which a person can respond to a visual stimulus w/o consciously experiencing it

NREM sleep

non-rapid eye movement sleep; encompasses all sleep stages except for REM sleep