Sleep & Memory Formation
What U really Want to Know About Dreams & Activation-Syntesis Model
Dreams Themes & Imagery
Dreams & Mental Activity During Sleep
Significance of Dreams (Freud)
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What strengthens new memories & integrates new memories with existing memories?
What is: Sleep
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Which type of people dream primarily with sound, taste, smell, and touch?
What is:The blind
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What are most dreams about?
What is everyday settings, people, activities and events.
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What is a dream?
It is and unfolding sequence of perceptions, thoughts, and emotions during sleep that is experienced as a series of real life events
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What is Sigmund Freud famous for?
What is psycho analysis
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What does research suggest contributes to forming new episodic memories?
What is: NREM slow-wave sleep
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What is a lucid dream?
What is: A dream in which the person is aware that they are dreaming and can control and influence the dream
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Name any three common dream contents?
Any nine comments pg. 150
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When does most dreams happen?
What is: During the REM sleep but it can also occur during NREM
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What is 1 of the 2 components Freud believed dreams were made of?
What is Manifest content or Latent content
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What are episodic memories?
What is: Personal experienced events
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Who created the activation-synthesis model of dreaming?
Who is: J. Allan Hobson and Robert McCarley
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What is a nightmare?
What is A vivid and disturbing dream that often wakens the sleeper.
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How many dreaming episodes do people usually have each night?
What is: Usually 4-5
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What is one of the books Freud wrote in the 1900's?
What is "The interpretation of dreams"
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What happens to memories that are formed during the day?
What is: They are reactivated during the 90 minute cycle of sleep
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What is the activation-synthesis model of dreaming?
What is: The theory that the brains activity creates and recalls memories, emotions,and sensations then strings them together to form a dream
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Disturbing and emotionally charged dream imagery causes people to...
What is Jolt awake
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How long does early morning dreams last?
What is: 40 minutes or longer
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What did Freud think the main functions of dreams were?
What is a Safety valve
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What does the process of reactivating newly encoding memories do?
What is: Strengthens the neuronal connections that contribute to forming long-term memories
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What are the two parts of the limbic system that are activated during REM sleep?
What are:The Amygdala and the Hippocampus
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As a general rule nightmares are not indicative of (a) psychological or sleep disorder unless?
What is They occur frequently, cause difficulties returning to sleep, or cause daytime stress.
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What does PET stand for?
What is:Positive-emissions tomography
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What were the forces that dictate human behavior?
What is Sexual and aggressive instincts
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