The stage of sleep in which breathing becomes more regular, heart rate slows down, and blood pressure decreases. Person can be easily awakened.
What is Stage 1?
100
a sleep disorder in which a person has persistent problems in falling asleep or staying asleep or awakes too early
What is insomnia?
100
A stage of sleep marked by rapid eye movements, high-frequency brain waves, band dreaming. Time for dreaming and consolidating new memories.
What is REM (rapid-eye-movement) sleep?
100
an alternate state of heightened suggestibility characterized by relaxation and intense focus
What is hypnosis?
100
a group of techniques designed to focus attention and produce a heightened state of consciousness
What is meditation?
200
a high amplitude brain wave and is usually associated with slow-wave sleep
What is a delta wave?
200
The stage of sleep marked by the appearance of slow, high-amplitude delta waves. Very hard to awaken.
What is Stage 3?
200
The condition of not having enough sleep affects the brain and cognitive functions.
What is sleep deprivation?
200
a theory that argues that responses to hypnotic suggestions are carried out voluntarily, but that the volition is not monitored correctly and are experienced as involuntary.
What is dissociation theory?
300
measures how easily a person can be hypnotized.
What is hypnotic susceptibility?
300
Biological changes that occur on a 24-hr cycle
What is Circadian rhythms?
300
a theory that states hypnotic effects result from a special altered state of consciousness
What is altered-state theory?
300
the theory that states hypnosis is a normal mental state in which deeply relaxed, suggestible people allow the hypnotist to direct their fantasies and behavior.
What is Relaxation/role playing theory?
300
The theory that sleep serves a recuperative function, allowing organisms to repair or replenish key factors in the brain or body that are depleted during daytime activities
What is the Repair/Restorative theory of sleep?
400
The stage of sleep made up mostly of delta waves. Children are most likely to wet their beds and sleepwalking can occur.
What is Stage 4?
400
a temporary cessation of breathing during sleep; one of the suspected causes of snoring, sudden infant death syndrome, high blood pressure, and heart damage.
What is sleep apnea?
400
a person's inability to recall events or information obtained while in a hypnotic state. Can occur naturally or through hypnotic suggestion.
What is posthypnotic amnesia?
400
a disease marked by sudden and irresistible onsets of sleep during normal waking hours
What is narcolepsy?
400
The stage of sleep in which person becomes more relaxed and less responsive to external environment. There are occasional short bursts of rapid, high-amplitude brain waves called sleep spindles
What is Stage 2?
500
also known as sleepwalking; arise from the slow wave sleep stage in a state of low consciousness and perform activities that are usually performed during a state of full consciousness. Lasts from 30secs to 30mins.
What is somnambulism?
500
set by a hypnotist and may optionally include a time scope. An altered sense of perception or behavioral pattern that may be "programmed" into the person under hypnosis.
What is posthypnotic suggestion?
500
A theory that states sleep holds an adaptive function
What is the Preservation and protection theory of sleep?
500
patient returns to an earlier stage of life in order to explore a memory or to get in-touch with some difficult - to - access aspect of their personality.
What is age regression?
500
When people are deprived of total sleep rather than just REM sleep, and then allow their recovery sleep, their first uninterrupted night has a greater proportion of this type of sleep.