CONSCIOUSNESS
This term refers to an awareness of ourselves and the environment.
What is consciousness?
This is the most sleep-deprived population in the United States.
Who are college students?
This is the most common sleep disorder in adults.
What is insomnia?
These are the most common themes found in most dreams.
What are being chased, sexual experiences, falling, school or studying, and arriving late? (list at least 2)
This class of drugs depresses central nervous system activity.
What are depressants?
This form of consciousness occurs spontaneously.
What is daydreaming or drowsiness or dreaming?
This stage of sleep is characterized by large-amplitude, low-frequency delta waves.
What are sleep stages 3 and 4?
Symptoms of this sleep disorder include loud snoring and short periods where the individual stops breathing and then gasps for air.
What is sleep apnea?
This theory of dreams interprets dreams as a person's attempt to fulfill ungratified needs from their waking life.
What is the wish-fulfillment theory of dreams?
This drug may produce mild relaxed euphoria and increased sensory awareness.
What is marijuana?
This psychological phenomenon occurs when a person fails to see visible objects when their attention is directed elsewhere.
What is inattention blindness?
At this moment, as you are concentrating on answering this Jeopardy review question correctly, your dominant brain wave pattern MOST likely consists of this type of brain wave.
What are beta waves?
This sleep disorder is common in children and is characterized by abrupt awakenings from Non-REM sleep. It is usually a temporary problem.
What are night terrors?
The fact that we sometimes dream about things we have not experienced and about past events is a valid criticism against this theory of dreaming.
What is the information-processing theory of dreaming?
This describes the need to take higher doses of a drug to achieve the desired effect because of the progressively reduced reaction to a specific drug dose.
What is tolerance?
This family of practices trains attention to heighten awareness and bring mental process under greater voluntary control.
What is meditation?
Most vivid dreaming events occur in this stage of sleep.
What is Stage 5 REM sleep?
Sleepwalking occurs during these stages of sleep.
What are stages 3 and 4?
What is REM sleep?
This set of symptoms, including pain and an intense feeling of craving, may occur when suddenly ceasing to take a certain drug.
What is withdrawal?
This group of psychologists abandoned the study of consciousness as a subject of study before 1960.
Who were behaviorists?
This stage of sleep may foster neurogenesis.
What is REM sleep?
This sleep disorder is characterized by sudden attacks of sleepiness, sleep paralysis, and hypnagogic hallucinations.
What is narcolepsy?
This is the correct sequence of sleep stages.
What is NREM 1, NREM 2, NREM 3, NREM 4, NREM 3, NREM 2, REM?
Using this class of drug may result in the experience of distortions in sensory and perceptual processes, as well as the exhibition of paranoia and "jumbled" thought processes.
What are hallucinogens?