States of Consciousness Part 3

Question 1

REM stands for what?

Answer 1

Rapid Eye Movement

Question 2

Sleep Stage in which the brain and eyes are active, muscles are relaxed, vivid dreaming occurs

Answer 2

REM Sleep

Question 3

REM Sleep is also called what?

Answer 3

Paradoxical Sleep

Question 4

Brain waves are high but bodies have no movement

Answer 4

Paradoxical Sleep

Question 5

Brainstem acts to block communication between cerebral cortex and motor neurons to produce REM Paralysis

Answer 5

Paradoxial Sleep

Question 6

Lack of sleep that can cause memory impairment, moodiness, overeating, no motivation, lack of concentration, reduced energy

Answer 6

Sleep Deprivation

Question 7

Tendency for REM sleep to increase following deprivation

Answer 7

REM Rebound

Question 8

Brief shift in brain activity from waking to sleeping brain waves

Answer 8

Microsleep

Question 9

Typically last for seconds and we lose consciousness and are unaware of our surroundings

Answer 9

Microsleep

Question 10

Sleep disorder in which the person regularly has difficulty falling or staying asleep

Answer 10

Insomnia

Question 11

Sleep disorder in which the victim suffers from sudden uncontrollable sleep attacks often by going directly into REM

Answer 11

Narcolepsy

Question 12

Sleep disorder in which the person ceases breathing while asleep, briefly arounses to gasp for air, and falls back into sleep and then repeats this cycle throughout the night

Answer 12

Sleep Apnea

Question 13

Sleep apnea that affects and often kills infants

Answer 13

SIDS

Question 14

Occurs between transition to Stage 4

Answer 14

Sleep Walking/Somnanbulism

Question 15

Negative Dreams that occur during REM

Answer 15

Nightmares

Question 16

Episodes of high arousal with apparent fear occurring in Stage 4

Answer 16

Night Terrors

Question 17

Vivid Sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts that occur during REM Sleep

Answer 17

Dreams

Question 18

Remembering the story line of a dream

Answer 18

Manifest Content

Question 19

Underlying but censored meaning of a dream, remains hidden

Answer 19

Latent Content

Question 20

Point of view that when we sleep, the pons sends signals to the cerebral cortex, creating dreams, mind making sense of random neural firings

Answer 20

Activation-Synthesis Theory of Dreams

Question 21

Dreams are the brain’s attempt to make sense of what we encounter during the data and shutting down sensory experiences

Answer 21

Information-Processing Theory of Dreams

Question 22

Social interaction when one person suggest to another that there are certain feelings, perceptions, thoughts, or behaviors that will occur

Answer 22

Hypnosis

Question 23

In therapeutic hypnosis, a client is more able to respond positively to recommendations like smoking or feeling no pain

Answer 23

State of Suggestibility

Question 24

Condition in which subjects are unable to recall what happened while they were under hypnosis

Answer 24

Posthypnotic Amnesia

Question 25

Hypnosis is not an altered state of consciousness, but people pretend to be hypnotized and become actors in a tole

Answer 25

Social Influence Theory

Question 26

Hilgard proposes hypnosis creates a dissociative state by dividing higher executive functions of the brain

Answer 26

Divided Consciousness Theory

Question 27

Part of a hypnotized person’s consciousness that remains aware of happening even under hypnosis

Answer 27

Hidden Observer

Question 28

Hilgard believes that this an example of dissociation

Answer 28

Hidden Observer

Question 29

Split between different levels of consciousness, allowing a person to divide attention between 2 or more thoughts

Answer 29

Dissociation