Brain Waves
Deep sleep
What are delta waves?
Dream sleep
What is REM?
Disorder characterized by depression, overtiredness, and overeating in winter.
What is Seasonal Affective Disorder? (SAD)
Inability to fall asleep or remain asleep.
What is insomnia?
Psychologist famous for book The Interpretation of Dreams; believes dreams represent our unconscious desires.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Wide awake
Sleep walking, sleep talking, and bedwetting
What is N3?
Biological rhythms that occurring once every 24 hours.
What are circadian rhythms?
Terrifying dream during NREM.
What is a night terror?
Dream theory stating dreams are by products of random neural firing in the pons.
What is the Neural Activation (noise) theory?
Crossing the threshold between awake and asleep
What are alpha waves?
Twilight state (between awake and asleep)
What is N1?
Present day psychologists distinguish between these two types of behaviors.
What are automatic and controlled?
Interrupted breathing during sleep, often times resulting in snoring and sometimes treated with a CPAP machine.
What is sleep apnea?
A state of heightened suggestibility, deep relaxation, and highly focused attention.
What is hypnosis?
REM sleep
What are beta waves?
We spend most of the night in this stage.
What is N2?
Hormone that acts upon the hypothalamus to control the sleep/wake cycle and body responses to the annual seasons cycle.
What is melatonin?
Falling instantly into REM sleep from a fully awake state.
What is narcolepsy?
Chemicals that affect mental processes and behavior by their affect on the brain.
What are psychoactive drugs?
Distinguishing characteristic of Stage 2 sleep
Gets longer as the night goes on.
What is REM?
The reason why texting and driving is against the law. (We can only truly attend consciously to one thing at a time.)
What is serial processing?
Five days of sleep deprivation can lead to this disorientating condition.
What is paranoia.
According to Freud, the actual, literal content of a dream.
What is the manifest content?