Drugs
sleep inducing drugs that tend to decrease CNS activation and behavioral activity
What are sedatives?
Are anxiety-arousing dreams that lead to awakening, usually from REM sleep
What are nightmares?
Normal, waking thought, alert problem solving (13-24 cps)
What are beta waves?
He believed dreaming's purpose is wish fulfillment
Who is Freud?
Chronic problems in getting adequate sleep that result in daytime fatigue and impaired functioning
What is insomnia?
chemical substances that modify mental, emotional, or behavioral functioning
What are psychoactive drugs?
Involves frequent, reflexive gasping for air that awakens a person and disrupts sleep
What is sleep apnea?
Deep relaxation, blank mind, meditation (8-12 cps)
What are alpha waves?
She believed dreams provide opportunity to work through everyday problems
Who is Rosalind Cartwright?
Is marked by potentially troublesome dream enactments during REM periods
What is REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD)?
drugs that tend to increase CNS activation and behavioral activity
What are stimulants?
Are abrupt awakening from NREM sleep, accompanied by intense autonomic arousal and feelings of panic
What are night terrors?
Light sleep (4-7 cps)
What are theta waves?
They argued that dreams are simply the by-products of bursts of activity emanating from subcortical areas in the brain
Who are j. Allan Hobson and Robert McCarley?
Are dreams in which people can think clearly about the circumstances of waking life and the fact that they are dreaming, yet they remain asleep in the midst of a vivid dream
What are lucid dreams?
Diverse group of drugs that have strong effect on mental and emotional functioning (distortions in sensory and perceptual experience)
What are hallucinogens?
Disease marked by sudden and irresistible onsets of sleep during normal waking periods
What is narcolepsy?
Deep sleep (less than 4 cps)
What are delta waves?
He believed that people act as though they're hypnotized (role playing). This results from person's expectations and attitudes
Who is Theodore Barber?
Is a systematic procedure that typically produces a heightened state of suggestibility
What is hypnosis?
drugs derived from opium that are capable of relieving pain
What are narcotics (or opiates)?
Or sleepwalking, occurs when a person arises and wanders about while remaining asleep
What is somnambulism?
What are sleep spindles?
He believes that hypnosis is indeed an altered state of consciousness (dissociation)
Who is Ernest Hilgard?
Refers to a family of practices that train attention to heighten awareness and bring mental processes under great voluntary control
What is meditation?