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Sleep Disorders
Consciousness
Sleep Stages
Miscellaneous
100
A condition in which a person regularly is unable to fall asleep, stay asleep, or feel adequately rested by sleep
What is insomnia?
100
This is what William James called the consciousness.
What is a "stream"?
100
This stage of sleep is when dreaming occurs.
What is REM sleep?
100
An instrument used to measure brain waves.
What is an electroencephalogram (EEG)?
200
A sleep disorder in which a person repeatedly stops breathing during sleep.
What is sleep apnea?
200
Daydreaming, sleep, hypnosis, meditation, and intoxication are all forms of this.
What are altered states?
200
Dreamless sleep that occurs in four stages.
What is NREM sleep?
200
Latin for circa diem, or about a day
What is the circadium rhythm?
300
Condition characterized when a person experiences weird sensations in the legs and an urge to move them that disrupts sleep.
What is restless leg syndrome?
300
Helps us enhance our cognitive skills, creativity, and handle certain situations.
What is daydreaming?
300
Brain-wave pattern associated with being alert
What are beta waves?
300
The hormone that is produced by the pineal gland that helps us sleep.
What is melatonin?
400
A sleep disorder characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness and brief lapses into sleep throughout the day.
What is narcolepsy?
400
Information that is not in your consciousness but can be retrieved with special recall.
What is the subconscious?
400
Brain wave pattern associated with relaxed wakefulness and drowsiness.
What are alpha waves?
400
The approximate amount of time it takes to complete one entire sleep cycle.
What is 90 minutes?
500
A sleep disturbance in which walking or performing other activities occurs during stage 3 or 4 of NREM sleep
What is somnabulism?
500
The term for Hilgard’s dissociated stream of mental activity that continues during hypnosis
What is divided consciousness?
500
Vivid sensory phenomena that can occur during the beginning of sleep.
What are hypnogogic hallucinations?
500
This is what occurs when muscle spasms jolt a person completely awake and often accompanies the hypnogogic hallucination of falling
What is a myoclonic jerk or sleep start?