These types of waves are present during the relaxed but awake
What are Alpha Waves
100
The ______________ is our 24 hour biological clock which includes a 90 minute sleep cycle
What is the Circadian Rhythm
100
People who are highly "hypnotizable" often have a ____________?
What is a rich fantasy life/wild imagination
100
This class of drugs calm neural activity, slow bodily functions, decrease breathing, constrict the pupils and decrease the user's self awareness and control
What are depressants (alcohol, barbiturates (anxiety medication), opiates
100
Until reading this question, you were unaware that your shoes are pressing against your feet. This focusing of your conscious attention, or selective attention, illustrates what type of processing?
What is dual processing
200
This stage includes slowed breathing, irregular brain waves, the sensation of falling, floating, weightlessness, and hypnagogic sensations
What is Stage 1
200
As sleep progresses throughout the night, which stages decrease while which stages increase?
What are Stages 3 and 4; REM sleep
200
Research indicates that memories retrieved during hypnosis are ___________?
What is a combination of fact and fiction
200
This class of drugs dilate the user's pupils, increase their heart rate and breathing, decrease their appetite, and increase their blood sugar and energy levels
What are stimulants (Methamphetamine, Caffeine, Nicotine, Cocaine, Ecstasy)
200
True or false - everyone needs at least 8 hours of sleep every night to function effectively/optimally
What is FALSE - some people need 5 hours, some need 9, the amount of sleep a person needs is often genetic
300
During this stage, Delta waves occur and some people may wet the bed or sleep walk
What is Stage 4
300
This type of content is often called the "storyline" of your dream
What is manifest content (latent content is the underlying or unconscious drives)
300
Social Influence Theory indicates what?
What is how effective the hypnosis is and the behaviors while under hypnosis are affected by the individuals present/culture etc
300
This class of drugs distort the user's perceptions, evoke sensory images, and are often called "mind-manifesting"
What are hallucinogens (LSD, marijuana)
300
This dream theory indicates that we dream to sift and sort experiences, and build memories
What is information processing
400
During this stage, brain waves are rapid and saw-toothed and more like Stage 1. It is often called the "paradoxical" stage.
What is Stage 5/REM
400
One theory called ___________, states that neural activity is random, spreading upward from the brainstem and dreams are the brain's attempt to make sense of it.
What is the Activation-Synthesis Theory
400
This refers to a state of divided consciousness
What is dissociation
400
Can all behaviors be labeled as addictions? Eating, shopping, exercise, gambling? Why or why not?
What is No - this can be used as and "all purpose" excuse to explain away the behaviors, don't give us the "whole story"
400
Traffic rates are found to ___________ after the spring daylight savings time change
What is increase
500
During this stage, the individual relaxes more deeply and there are periodic appearances of sleep spindles in rapid, rhythmic bursts
What is Stage 2
500
This occurs when someone is deprived of REM sleep, and they will then fall more easily into REM sleep and stay there longer
What is REM rebound
500
Hypnotherapists plant __________ to help alleviate pain in clients - don't forget, there is an emotional aspect to pain!
What are post-hypnotic suggestions
500
This concept refers to the way a user's brain adapts it's chemistry to offset the drug's effects
What is tolerance
500
This sleep disorder occurs in Stage 4 where children will sit up, walk around, talk incoherently and often have 2X their normal heart rate and breathing rate as they appear terrified