Sleep Cycles
Sleep Theories and Disorders
Dreams
Hypnosis
Drugs
100
The sensations of falling or floating are most likely to occur during which sleep stage?
Stage 1
100
Layla has difficulty going to sleep and staying asleep. Layla is most likely suffering from ________________. Which sleep disorder would be the most incapacitating for commercial bus driver?
Insomnia, Narcolepsy
100
What is the definition of a dream?
Hallucinations of the sleeping mind.
100
Hypnosis involves a state of heightened ___________
Openness
100
Chemical substances that alter perceptions and moods are called ________________ drugs.
psychoactive
200
What is the difference between alpha waves and delta waves? When does each occur in the sleep cycle?
Alpha Waves- the relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state. Laying in bed, ready for sleep. Delta Waves- large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep. Stages 3-4
200
Researchers have demonstrated that people trained to perform tasks recall them better after a night's sleep than after several hours awake. This finding suggests that sleep is for ____________________.
Making memories
200
What is the difference between the manifest content and the latent content in our dreams? Which super famous psychologist most used these terms?
Manifest Content: The remembered story line of our dreams, the plot, censored symbolism Latent Content: The underlying unconscious drives and unfulfilled wishes that are masked by symbolism in our dreams
200
In order for hypnosis to be therapeutic, what tool (and vocab term) is used to help control undesired symptoms and behaviors?
Posthypnotic suggestion: a suggestion made during a hypnosis session, to be carried out after a subject is no longer hypnotized.
200
Alcohol consumption disrupts the processing of recent experiences into long-term memory by decreasing ____________.
REM sleep
300
Which two stages of the sleep cycle have the most similar looking brain waves?
Stage 1, REM
300
About 3 hours after he falls asleep, Bobby often sits up in bed screaming incoherently. His mother tries to awaken him, but with no success. His pulse races and he gasps for breath. The next morning, he remembers nothing. It appears that Bobby suffers from ___________. Which usually occur during which stage of sleep?
Night Terrors :( Stage 4
300
Explain the difference between the Physiological Function theory on why we dream and the Activation-Synthesis theory.
Physiological Function- we dream in order to preserve neural and create neural pathways. Activation-Synthesis- REM triggers brain activity that evokes random visual memories and emotions, that our brain weaves into stories.
300
According to your book, nearly ______% of people can be so deeply hypnotized that they can undergo surgery without anesthesia.
10
300
Which of the following is a common symptom of nicotine withdrawal?
anxiety
400
What is the circadian cycle? How does it impact you throughout your day?
The biological clock; regular bodily rhythms that occur on a 24- hr cycle. Throughout the day, your body goes through a cycle of wakefulness, temperature, alertness, etc. that is all a part of your biological clock.
400
One of the reasons scientists theorize that we need sleep is that it is necessary for the growth process. Explain what happens in sleep that leads scientists to believe this.
The pituitary glad releases growth hormones while we sleep. As we age, less of these hormones are released and we spend less time in deep sleep.
400
For both men and women, 8 in 10 dreams are marked by at least one __________________________________
Negative event or emotion
400
Research indicates that memories retrieved during hypnosis are a combination ________ and ___________.
Fact and Fiction
400
What is the difference between physical dependence and psychological dependence with drugs?
Physical- physiological need for a drug. Psychological- dependence centered around need to decrease mental-based ailments (stress, anxiety, fear)
500
Describe one characteristic or "thing that happens" in each of the 5 stages of sleep.
Stage 1: Jerking awake, feeling like we are falling, slowing of alpha waves Stage 2: Sleep talking, "spindle bursts" Stage 3: Transition to deep sleep, large slow delta waves Stage 4: Sleep walking, bed wetting REM: dreams, rapid eye movement, "paradoxical sleep"
500
What are the 5 reasons for sleep that have been theorized?
Sleep protects, sleep helps us recuperate, sleep is for making memories, sleep is for creative thinking, sleep plays a role in the growth process.
500
What are the names of the 5 dream theories?
Wish Fulfillment Information- Processing Physiological function Activation-synthesis Cognitive Development
500
Explain Social Influence Theory and its perspective on hypnosis.
Advocates of the theory would contend that hypnotic states (and other supposed altered states) are only an extension of everyday social behavior, not something unique to hypnosis.
500
Explain the symptoms of an altered state related to alcohol.
Disinhibition Slowed neural processing Memory disruption
M
e
n
u