Definitions
The fifth stage of the sleep cycle.
What is REM sleep?
narcolepsy
What is a disorder characterized by sudden and overwhelming sleepiness (when a person falls asleep, even during a task.)?
This stage of sleep is most associated with dreaming.
What is REM sleep?
Characterized by difficulty falling or staying asleep.
What is insomnia?
What is somnambulism?
A disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops and starts during sleep.
circadian rhythm
What is the internal organization regulates our sleep-wake cycle?
Freud's theory that dreams help us act out latent desires.
What is Wish Fulfillment?
What is sleep apnea?
Immune system suppression
What is a consequence of sleep deprivation?
The hormone that regulates the sleep-wake cycle.
What is melatonin?
REM (what it stands for).
What is Rapid Eye Movement?
The theory that dreaming is part of how humans organize their experiences and memories, helping us sift, sort, and reconcile our day's activities.
What is information processing?
The disorder in which a person acts out their dreams because their body is not sufficiently paralyzed during the dream cycle of sleep.
What is REM Motor Behavior Disorder?
This system responds primarily to light and darkness in an organism's environment.
What is a circadian rhythm?
The state of awareness.
What is consciousness?
lucid dreaming
What is the experience of achieving conscious awareness of dreaming while still asleep?
The dream theory describes dreaming as the triggering of neural activity that our brain turns into a story-like dream.
What is Activation-Synthesis?
The category of sleep disorders involving unusual behaviors during sleep.
What are parasomnias?
What is 90 minutes?
The inability to move just after falling asleep or just before waking up.
Activation-Synthesis
What is the theory that dreams are the brain’s attempt to make sense of meaningless patterns of brain activity during sleep?
Evidence that we need REM sleep and therefore dreams for Physiological Function.
What is REM Rebound?
A disorder that disrupts sleep and can include symptoms of feeling creeping, crawling, pulling, or tingling sensations during the day.
What is Restless Leg Syndrome?
The underlying meaning or interpretation of a dream.