The first few dreams are usually composed of vague thoughts leftover from the days activities. (True/False)
True
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What is sleepwalking?
A disorder in which a person is partly, but not completely, awake during the night
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What is hypnosis?
A form of altered consciousness in which people become highly suggestible to changes in behavior and thought
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What is meditation?
Meditation is the focusing of attention to clear one's mind and produce relaxation
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Why is sleep important to humans?
Because it allows people to "charge up their batteries"
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What are the most experienced emotions felt in dreams?
Anxiety, anger and sadness
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What are some benefactors to insomnia?
Overuse of alcohol or drugs
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What is the major medical benefit of hypnosis?
Posthypnotic suggestion
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What is biofeedback?
Biofeedback is a technique in which a person learns how to control his or her internal of physiological processes with the help of feed back.
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What is the circadian rhythm?
A biological clock that is genetically programmed to regulate physiological responses with in a period of 24 hours.
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What did Sigmund Freud believe about dreams?
That dreams contain clues to their fears when they're awake
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Snoring may be a sign of ___.
Sleep apnea
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In a environment of trust, hypnotists can make their participants become ___ to the hypnotists suggestions.
susceptible
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What is meditation widely known for?
Lowering blood pressure, heart rate and respiration rate
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Adults average about ___ % of their time in REM sleep and ___ % of time in NREM sleep
25, 75
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When are you most likely to daydream?
When you have a low level of awareness, your idle and your thinking is directed
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You woke up sweating, confused and with a rapid heart rate, what does this entail?
Night terror, during stage IV sleep
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Theodore Barber believed in what hypnotic theory?
That hypnosis is not a special state of consciousness, but simply the result of suggestibility
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What is the basic principle of biofeedback?
Feedback makes learning possible
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What are the characteristics of the four stages of sleep before REM sleep?
1. Pulse slows a bit and muscles relax
2. Eyes roll from side to side into a deeper sleep
3. Delta waves begin to sweep your brain
4. Deepest sleep until REM and larger brain waves occur
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What did Nathaniel Kleitman, one of the pioneers who discovered REM sleep, write in 1960?
"Dreaming may serve no function whatsoever"
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Unusual sleep patterns, hallucinations and a feeling of temporary paralysis can be summed up into
Narcolepsy
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Who was the first person to study and practice hypnosis?
Franz Anton Mesmer
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Thomas Budzynski used biofeedback to teach people to relax what specific muscle?