UNIT 4: Quiz 3 Psychology
category
a grouping of concepts
morpheme
a meaningful unit of language (words)
hierarchy
a ranking system
concept
an idea or thought
consciousness
awareness of your existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings
insomnia
inability to fall or stay asleep
deprivation
lacking; going without
analogical representation
mental pictures that have a direct relationship to the actual object you are thinking about
symbolic representation
mental pictures that have no direct relationship to the actual object you are thinking about
REM
rapid eye moment; stage of sleep during which a person dreams
manifest content
the aspects of a dream or fantasy that you remember
phoneme
the basic unit of meaning (letters and sounds)
latent content
the hidden aspects of a dream that you must figure out
decode
to figure out or unscramble hidden meaning
acquire
to gain or obtain for yourself
perception
understanding something through your mind or the senses
conception
your personal interpretation of your senses or thoughts
interpretation
your personal meaning given to places, events, situations, and people
