Sleep & Dreams
This sleep stage is characterized by a periodic appearance of sleep spindles.
What is stage 2?
Can hypnosis make people act against their will?
What is no?
The painful experience associated with termination of the use of an addictive substance is known as this.
What is withdrawal?
In terms of the effect on the central nervous system, alcohol is most accurately classified as which type of drug?
What is a depressant?
This sleep disorder has two types. Primary is NOT directly associated with another health condition whereas Secondary-IS RELATED to other health problems. The person may have difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep and can be caused by significant life stress, illness, discomfort or environmental factors.
What is insomnia?
This stage of sleep is characterized by a majority of delta brain waves.
What is stage 4 sleep?
describes hypnosis as an altered state of consciousness.
What is state theory of hypnosis?
Combined with alcohol, these types of drugs are lethal
What are barbiturates?
Traveling in a jet plane from California to New York is most likely to upset this, your biological clock.
What is your circadian rhythms?
Which of the following will NOT increase behavioral and mental activity: Benzedrine, Amphetamines, or Barbiturates?
What are barbiturates?
REM sleep is also known as "paradoxical sleep." This is because active brain waves are paired with this physical phenomenon.
What is lowered muscle tone (paralyzed muscles)?
A split between levels of consciousness, hypnosis disassociates the physical stimulus of pain from the emotional suffering that defines our experience of pain
What is disassociation?
These are common examples of stimulants (name 2).
What amphetamines, cocaine, caffeine, ecstasy, etc.
EEGs of meditators show these kinds of brain waves.
What are alpha waves?
This disorder has two types: obstructive and central and is characterized by breathing difficulty during the night. Often, most people don’t know they have it, so it goes undiagnosed. It can result in death and requires long-term management
What is sleep apnea?
A high school senior about to go to college dreamed that someone robbed his house and stole all of his family photos, home movies, and heirlooms. After talking with a friend, he realized that he was anxious about being away from his family after he moved for college. According to a psychoanalytic psychologist his explanation of his dream represents this kind of content.
What is latent content?
states that a hypnotized person is not actually in an alternate state of consciousness but is playing the role of being hypnotized, which includes complying with the instructions of the hypnotist.
What is role theory of hypnosis?
When a person is suffering from severe pain, the type of drug that will best help alleviate that pain is this.
What is a narcotic/opiate?
This has enabled psychologists to learn the most about sleep processes over the last 50 years.
What is the EEG?
This disorder is hereditary, can cause loss of muscle tone during periods of excitement, and its main characteristic is overwhelming, excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) even when the person gets adequate nighttime rest. The person falls asleep at inappropriate times & places without warning several times a day. There is also a link to inadequate levels of hypocretin. These symptoms need to be severe enough to disrupt a person's life and limit their activities.
What is narcolepsy?
A student participates in a month-long sleep study designed to examine free-running circadian rhythms. If all time cues are removed, the student’s total sleep-wake cycle is likely to average this amount of time.
What is 25 hours?
Monitoring by the "hidden observer" during hypnosis provides evidence for this.
What is dissociation of consciousness?
Psychoactive drugs that enhance the effects of certain opiates like heroin
What is an antagonist?
According to psychodynamic psychologists, this level of consciousness includes unacceptable feelings, wishes, and thoughts.
What is the unconscious?
This disorder is most common in the fourth state of sleep. It is not a dream & not a nightmare. The person is not fully awake and cannot typically recall what has happened. There is an emotion of fear with gasping, moaning or screaming. It is most common among those ages 2-6 and affects about 15% of children.
What are night terrors?