Consciousness
Describes our awareness of internal and external stimuli.
What is Consciousness?
Rapid movements of the eyes.
What is Rapid Eye Movement? (REM)
Involves changes in normal bodily functions.
What is physical dependence?
Refers to the fact that a sleep-deprived individual will tend to take a shorter time to fall asleep during subsequent opportunities for sleep.
What is sleep rebound?
A consistent difficulty in falling or staying asleep.
What is insomnia?
Internal rhythms of biological activity.
What is biological rhythms?
Lower frequency, higher amplitude brain waves than alpha waves.
What is theta waves?
A drug that tends to suppress central nervous system activity.
What is a depressant?
Controlled by multiple brain areas acting in conjunction with one another.
What are sleep-awake cycles?
A sleep disorder in which unwanted, disruptive motor activity and/or experiences during sleep play a role.
What is parasomnia?
Refers to the brain's control of switching between sleep and wakefulness as well as coordinating this cycle with the outside world.
What is sleep regulation?
Rapid burst of higher frequency brain waves that may be important for learning and memory.
What is sleep spindle?
A drug that tends to increase overall levels of neural activity.
A discipline that studies how universal patterns of behavior and cognitive processes have evolved over time as a result of natural selection.
What is evolutionary psychology?
Uncomfortable sensations in the legs during periods of inactivity or when trying to fall asleep.
What is restless leg syndrome?
A state marked by relatively low levels of physical activity and reduced sensory awareness that is distinct from periods of rest that occur during wakefulness.
What is sleep?
Dreams in which certain aspects of wakefulness are maintained during a dream state.
What are lucid dreams?
A type of amphetamine that can be made from ingredients that are readily available.
What is methamphetamine?
Results in disruptions in cognition and memory deficits leading to impairments in our abilities to maintain attention, make decisions, and recall long-term memories.
What is sleep deprivations?
Defined by episodes during which a sleeper's breathing stops.
What is sleep apnea?
Refers to a work schedule that changes from early to late on a daily or weekly basis.
What is rotating shift work?
Refers to the hidden meaning of a dream.
What is latent content?
Includes a variety of negative symptoms experienced when drug use is discontinued.
What is a withdrawal?
Melatonin, follicle stimulating hormone, luteinizing hormone, and growth hormone.
What hormones are associated with several endocrine glands?
Disruptions in signals sent from the brain that regulate breathing cause periods of interrupted breathing.
What is central sleep apnea?