This sleep stage is characterized by a periodic appearance of sleep spindles.
What is Stage 2 Sleep?
100
Research has indicated that memories that are restored through hypnosis are...
What is a combination of fact and fiction?
100
The painful experience associated with termination of the use of an addictive substance is known as this.
What is withdrawal?
100
In terms of the effect on the central nervous system, alcohol is most accurately classified as which type of drug?
What is a depressant?
100
This sleep disorder would be the most incapacitating for a truck driver.
What is narcolepsy?
200
This stage of sleep is characterized by a majority of delta brain waves.
What is Stage 4 Sleep?
200
Hypnosis is commonly used to treat these.
What are weight loss, addiction, and pain?
200
The need to take larger and larger doses of a drug in order to experience its effects is an indication of this.
What is tolerance?
200
Traveling in a jet plane from California to New York is most likely to upset this, your biological clock.
What is your circadian rhythms?
200
The human sleep cycle repeats itself about every...
What is 90 minutes?
300
REM sleep is also known as "paradoxical sleep." This is because active brain waves are paired with this physical phenomenon.
What is lowered muscle tone (paralyzed muscles)?
300
Hypnosis has been found useful in the treatment of this.
What is pain?
300
These are common examples of stimulants (name 3).
What amphetamines, cocaine, caffeine, ecstasy, etc.
300
A sensory experience that occurs without a sensory stimulus is called this.
What is a hallucination?
300
This theory argues that dreams represent wish fulfillment.
What is Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory?
400
A high school senior about to go to college dreamed that someone robbed his house and stole all of his family photos, home movies, and heirlooms. After talking with a friend, he realized that he was anxious about being away from his family after he moved for college. According to a psychoanalytic psychologist his explanation of his dream represents this kind of content.
What is latent content?
400
This hypnosis theory states that hypnosis is simply the result of a social interaction and playing the role of a hypnotized individual.
What is Social Phenomena Theory?
400
When a person is suffering from severe pain, the type of drug that will best help alleviate that pain is this.
What is an opiate?
400
This has enabled psychologists to learn the most about sleep processes over the last 50 years.
What is the EEG?
400
During the night, Mark stops breathing repeatedly, frequently gasps for air, and snores loudly at regular intervals. Mark is most likely suffering from this condition.
What is sleep apnea?
500
This sleep hormone is released by the pineal gland and is crucial for the regulation of sleep cycles.
What is melatonin?
500
Hypnosis involves a state of...
What is heightened suggestiveness?
500
Methamphetamine, caffeine, and cocaine have this in common.
What is relax the body, leading to euphoria and lack of inhibition?
500
Although Hero never experiences caffeine withdrawal symptoms, he feels like he needs to have his daily coke in order to function properly. Hero best illustrates this.
What is psychological dependence?
500
This dream theory suggests that dreams are mental responses to random burst of neural stimulation.