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CONSCIOUSNESS
SLEEP
SLEEP DISORDERS
DREAMS
DRUGS
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An awareness of ourselves and the environment
What is consciousness?
100
The most sleep-deprived population
Who are college students?
100
The most common sleep disorder in adults
What is insomnia?
100
These are the two common themes found in most dreams
Being chased, sexual experiences, falling, school or studying, and arriving late
100
This broad class of drugs are also known as "downers"
What are depressants?
200
A form of consciousness that occurs spontaneously
What is daydreaming or drowsiness or dreaming?
200
The stage of sleep that is characterized by large-amplitude, low-frequency delta waves
What are sleep stages 3 and 4?
200
Symptoms of this sleep disorder include trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, and waking up early
What is insomnia?
200
The wish-fulfillment theory of dreams was proposed by this famous psychologist
Who is Sigmund Freud?
200
This drug produces mild relaxed euphoria and increased sensory awareness
What is marijuana?
300

Awareness of external events, internal sensations, self as a unique being experiencing these events, and thoughts about the experience

What are the elements of consciousness?
300
Sleep spindles and K complexes are typically seen in this stage of sleep
What is Stage 2 of sleep?
300
This sleep disorder is common in children and is characterized by abrupt awakenings from Non-REM sleep. It is usually a temporary problem.
What are night terrors?
300
This theory of dreaming proposes that "REM sleep triggers neural activity that evokes random visual memories which our brain weaves into stories".
What is neural activation theory?
300

The need to take higher doses of a drug to achieve the desired effect because of the progressively reduced reaction to a specific drug dose.

What is tolerance?

400
The failure to notice a visible change in the environment when our attention is directed somewhere
What is change blindness?
400
Most vivid dreaming events occur in this stage of sleep
What is Stage 5 REM sleep?
400
Sleepwalking occurs during these stages of sleep.
What are stages 3 and 4?
400
This theory of dream proposes that dream content reflects dreamer's level of cognitive development.
What is cognitive development theory?
400
To satisfy intense mental and emotional craving a person must continue to take the drug
What is psychological dependence?
500
This group of psychologists abandoned the study of consciousness as a subject of study before 1960
Who were behaviorists?
500

These brain areas are responsible for generating REM sleep

What is pons and midbrain?
500
This sleep disorder is characterized by occasional cataplexy and hypnagogic hallucinations
What is narcolepsy?
500
The fact that we sometimes dream about things we have not experienced and about past events is a valid criticism against this theory of dreaming.
What is information-processing theory?
500
Blackouts and memory disruptions are the more serious effects of these drugs
What is alcohol?