Stages of Sleep
This stage of sleep is where we experience hypnagogic sensations.
This sleep disorder is where a person has trouble falling or staying sleep
What is Insomnia?
The sleep-wake cycle that the human nervous is bound to.
What is Circadian rhythm?
These are sequences of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping person’s mind.
What are Dreams?
What is NREM-3?
Relatively rare disorder in which the person experiences extreme fear and arousal and is seldomly remembered.
What are Night Terrors?
The awareness of ourselves and our environment
What is Consciousness?
This theory believes that dreams work to help us sort out the day's events and consolidate our memories.
What is Information Processing Theory?
If you are deprived of REM sleep then a person would experience great amounts of REM sleep the next time they fall asleep
What is REM Rebound?
When a person stops breathing for ten seconds or more while sleeping.
What is Sleep Apnea?
A theory of consciousness that believes that information is processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks
What is Dual Processing?
The belief that dreams represent unconscious desires, thoughts, and motivations.
What is Wish-fulfillment Theory or Freud's Wish-fulfillment Theory?
During this stage of sleep, some people may find themselves to become aroused and have their face and fingers twitch.
What is REM Sleep.
These two sleep disorders occur during NREM-3 sleep.
What are Sleepwalking and Sleep Talking?
A pair of cell clusters in the hypothalamus that controls circadian rhythm and tells the pinal gland when to stop or start producing melatonin.
What is the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus?
The belief that dream content reflects dreamers' knowledge and understanding of the world around them
What is Cognitive Development Theory?
This stage of sleep usually only lasts 20 minutes in a person's sleep cycle.
What is NREM-2?
What is REM Sleep Behavior Disorder?
A social interaction in which one person suggests to another that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur
What is Hypnosis?
The belief that regular brain stimulation from REM sleep may help develop and preserve neural pathways.
What is Physiological Function Theory?