This sleep stage, also known as paradoxical sleep, is characterized by a rise in heart rate, rapid and irregular breathing, darting eyelids, and vivid dreams.
What is REM sleep?
100
This hormone induces sleep.
What is melatonin?
100
This effect of sleep loss is caused by the release of ghrelin, a hunger-arousing hormone.
What is weight gain?
100
According to the information processing theory, sleep allows us to do this.
What is file away memories?
100
Snoring is not the same as this. But it is a symptom.
What is sleep apnea?
200
This stage of sleep is categorized by sleep spindles, bursts of rapid, rhythmic brain-wave activity.
What is Stage 2 sleep?
200
The length of the sleep cycle.
What is 90 (to 110) minutes?
200
In a survey on sleep loss, 28% of high school students admitted to doing this once a week.
What is falling asleep in class?
200
Children under the age of nine dream more like a slideshow than an active story, according to this theory.
What is cognitive development?
200
Periodic, overwhelming sleepiness coupled with a loss of muscular tension and a brief period of REM sleep.
What is narcolepsy?
300
This sleep stage is marked by hypnagogic sensations.
What is Stage 1 sleep?
300
This produces melatonin.
What is the pineal gland?
300
Driver fatigue is responsible for this percentage of American traffic accidents.
What is 20% (1/5)?
300
Freud said that dreams provide a safety valve for our otherwise unacceptable feelings. This symbolic content is also called this.
What is latent content?
300
These common quick fixes actually aggravate insomnia by reducing REM sleep.
What are sleeping pills and alcohol?
400
This sleep stage is marked by slow, large brain waves and diminishes in length as the night progresses.
What is Stage 4 sleep?
400
This regulates the pineal gland's production of the sleep-inducing hormone.
What is the SCN (suprachiasmatic nucleus)?
400
Sleep-deprived airport baggage screeners and surgeons are more likely to make mistakes because fatigue causes this (1 of 2 is acceptable).
What is slower reaction time or increased errors on visual tasks?
400
Dreams erupt from neural activity that our brain tries to make sense of, according to this theory.
What is the activation-synthesis theory?
400
Nightmares, which typically occur during early morning REM sleep, are not the same as night terrors, which typically occur during this stage.
What is stage 4 sleep?
500
These are the waves of the awake but relaxed brain.
What are alpha waves?
500
This is the part of the brain that houses the SCN.
What is the hypothalamus?
500
63% of adults who feel they get enough sleep report this.
What is feeling very satisfied with their personal life?
500
Dreams provide the sleeping brain with periodic stimulation and develop and preserve neural pathways, according to this theory.
What is physiological function?
500
List three natural alternatives that could help combat insomnia.
What are (any 3)?...
-exercise regularly but not before bed
-avoid caffeine after early afternoon
-avoid rich foods before bed
-glass of milk
-dim the lights
-sleep on a regular schedule
-hide the clock face
-reassure yourself that a temporary loss of sleep is harmless
-manage stress levels
-settle for less sleep