Sleep
The 4-stage process that a person goes through multiple times while sleeping
What is a REM cycle?
These three steps make up the process of stress.
What is a stressor, reaction, and strain?
An irrational/unrealistic fear resulting in physiological arousal and accompanied by the behavioral signs of escape or avoidance.
What is anxiety?
The mind’s reconstruction of information based on information from multiple sources
What is memory?
This effect means that study sessions that are spread out over time are more effective than studying done all at once.
What is the spacing effect?
Dreams occur in this stage of sleep
What is the REM stage (or REM sleep)?
These three components of stress can be independent or overlapping, depending on the situation
What is cognitive, emotional, and physical stress?
A severe form of anxiety towards a particular stimulus
What is a phobia?
The cognitive process that divides larger pieces of information into smaller, more easily memorable parts
What is chunking?
Quizzing yourself on material is better than rereading notes.
What is the testing effect?
They are formed and stored while sleeping
What are memories?
Colloquially known as the "stress hormone"
What is cortisol?
A person’s perception of their ability to change their situation/feelings
What is a locus of control?
The three parts of memory. Rereading notes focuses on the first part, while it should focus on the last part.
What is encoding, storage, and retrieval?
The tendency for people with low skill or knowledge in a subject to overestimate how good they are
What is the Dunning-Kruger effect?
This colloquial term is actually referring to NREM 3
What is deep sleep?
This happens between a stressor and reaction, and ultimately decides whether the stressor gets a reaction or not.
What is appraisal?
It's a way of dealing with anxiety that involves controlling the voice in your head
What is changing self-talk?
This part of memory is affected the most by sleep deprivation.
What is encoding?
These are the two ways in which something becomes a stressor in the first place.
What are genetics and conditioning?
These two parts of the brain are slightly activated while dreaming
"I don't want to completely eliminate my stress! I want to have some good sources of stress and I want to diminish bad sources of stress!"
What is the goal of stress management?
This way of dealing with anxiety helps you relax while getting closer and closer to the source of anxiety. The same concept applies to dealing with traumatic memories.
What is systematic desensitization?
This part of the brain is responsible for managing memories.
What is the hippocampus?
It's what you should do if life gives you lemons
What is robbing a bank?