circadian Rhythm
What hormone increases your level of sleepiness?
what is Melatonin
It potentially stops your breathing during sleep.
what is sleep apnea?
This effect of sleep loss is caused by the release of ghrelin, a hunger-arousing hormone.
what is weight gain?
information processing theory allows us to do what?
What is file away memories?
A sleep stage characterized by a rise in heart rate, rapid and irregular breathing, darting eyelids, and vivid dreams.
what is REM sleep?
What is circadian Rhythm?
what is your sleep-wake pattern over the course of a 24-hour day.
These common quick fixes actually aggravate insomnia by reducing REM sleep.
What are sleeping pills and alcohol?
what is falling asleep in class?
Freud said that dreams provide a safety valve for our otherwise unacceptable feelings. what is another name for this?
what is latent content?
This stage of sleep is categorized by sleep spindles, bursts of rapid, rhythmic brain-wave activity.
What is Stage 2 sleep?
What is the length of a sleep cycle?
what is 90-110 minutes
Periodic, overwhelming sleepiness coupled with a loss of muscular tension and a brief period of REM sleep.
What is narcolepsy?
Driver fatigue is responsible for this percentage of American traffic accidents.
What is 20%
Children under the age of nine dream more like a slideshow than an active story, according to this theory.
What is cognitive development?
This sleep stage is marked by slow, large brain waves and diminishes in length as the night progresses.
what is stage 4 sleep?
What gland produces melatonin?
what is the pineal gland
what are three natural ways to decrease insomnia?
what is a glass of milk, dimming the lights, sleep on a regular schedule,etc?
what mistakes or symptoms does sleep deprived surgeons will gain because of fatigue.
What is slower reaction time or increased errors on visual tasks?
Dreams erupt from neural activity that our brain tries to make sense of, according to this theory.
What is the activation-synthesis theory?
These are the waves of the awake but relaxed brain.
what is Alpha waves?
what is the part of the brain that houses the SCN?
what is the hypothalamus?
what stage does night terrors typically occur?What is stage 4 sleep?
What is stage 4 sleep?
63% of adults who feel they get enough sleep report this.
What is feeling very satisfied with their personal life?
Dreams provide the sleeping brain with periodic stimulation and develop and preserve neural pathways, according to this theory.
What is physiological function?
A sleep stage is marked by hypnagogic sensations.