Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- The role of neurotransmitters in neural communication.
- The role of sleep in one's daily life.
- The effects of psychoactive drugs on behavior and mental processes.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Summarize complex concepts related to sleep, dreams, drug use and misuse, and hypnosis into simpler, yet still accurate, terms.
- Argue in favor of or against a theory of sleep, dreams, and/or hypnosis using research-based evidence to support claims.
- Develop a plan for getting enough sleep, using evidence-based strategies derived from theories and information presented in the text.
- Create a public awareness campaign that discourages children from misusing psychoactive drugs, using evidence-based strategies and information derived from the text.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Sleep is important in one's daily life.
- There are ways to improve one's sleep experience.
- There are positive and negative affects of psychoactive drugs on behavior and mental processes.
- There are ways in which hypnosis can be helpful for alleviating pain.
- There are unsupported uses of hypnosis as a therapeutic technique.
Vocabulary
- consciousness
- depressants
- stimulants
- hallucinogens
- opiates
- addiction
- tolerance
- withdrawal
- manifest content
- latent content
- activation synthesis
- hypnosis
- suggestibility
- divided consciousness
- dissociation
- adaptive theory of sleep
- restorative theory of sleep
- REM
- non-REM
- Stage 1
- Stage 2
- Stages 3 and 4
- insomnia
- sleep apnea
- narcolepsy
- night terrors
- restless leg syndrome
- somnambulism
- circadian rhythm
- REM rebound
