This is the typical length of one sleep cycle, which occurs several times throughout the night.
What is 90 minutes?
100
These frightening experiences occur during NREM-3 sleep, and are more common in children.
What are "night terrors?"
100
According to Maslow, these are the most basic needs, that must be satisfied first.
What are physiological/physical needs? (food, water, shelter)
100
In order for behaviors or symptoms to be considered a "disorder," they have to cause this.
(Two possible answers)
What are "clinically significant distress" or "impaired functioning?"
100
This theory of emotion suggests that our physical arousal precedes and causes our emotional response.
What is the James-Lange theory?
200
The fancy name for the 24-hour cycle of sleep and wakefulness.
What is the circadian rhythm?
200
Estimates suggest that ____ out of 10 dreams reported by men and women are negative.
What is 8 ?
200
This term refers to a constant or balanced internal state, which a person's drives motivate them toward achieving.
What is homeostasis?
200
This is a brief but intense period of physiological arousal and overwhelming fear.
What is a panic attack?
200
Cross cultural research suggests that there are this many basic "universal" emotions.
What is 7-10?
300
This (sometimes hilarious) disorder is characterized by sudden periods of uncontrollable sleepiness.
What is narcolepsy?
300
This American psychologist created an individualized technique for interpreting dreams in therapy, involving a 3-step process.
Who is Clara Hill?
300
This "cold" form of punishment frustrates a person's basic need to feel like they belong.
What is ostracism?
300
These are repetitive behaviors or mental acts that a person feels compelled to perform.
What are compulsions?
300
Research suggests that, despite our feelings of confidence, people are only able to recognize this about 50% of the time.
What is deception/lying?
400
These vivid images or sensations of falling occur during NREM-1 sleep.
What are hypnogogic hallucinations?
400
According to Freud, this is the hidden and repressed meaning of a person's dream.
What is latent content?
400
These are persons who are motivated to achieve a higher level of arousal states.
What are "sensation seekers?"
400
A delusion involving a false belief that someone (often famous) is in love with you.
What is an erotomanic delusion?
400
This principle suggests that a state of arousal (such as when we're afraid) can carry over into the next situation, causing us to react more forcefully than we might normally.
What is excitation transfer/the spillover effect?
500
A tiny bundle of neurons connected to the optic nerve, that regulates our sleep through the secretion of melatonin.
What is the suprachiasmatic nucleus?
500
This process is one possible explanation for the communication between the hippocampus and the cortex during dreaming.
What is memory consolidation?
500
This principle suggests that all persons have an ideal level of arousal that makes them perform at their best -- illustrated by an upside-down "U" shape.
What is the Yerkes-Dodson law?
500
The five sets of symptoms that persons with schizophrenia commonly experience (but you only have to name two).
What are hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking, disorganized/bizarre behavior, and inappropriate/absent emotion?
500
This principle suggests that we can actually change our inner moods by simulating certain facial expressions.