Test 2: Chapters 4-6

Question 0

What is the circadian rhythm?

Answer 0

The 24 hr sleep/wake cycle.

Question 1

What is consciousness?

Answer 1

A state of awareness, waking consciousness, altered state of consciousness.

Question 2

Where is the suprachiasmatic nucleus and what does it do?

Answer 2

Inside the hypothalamus, tells the pineal gland to start or stop releasing melatonin.

Question 3

What is the “adaptive theory of sleep”?

Answer 3

Our sleep patterns evolved from trying to avoid predators.

Question 4

What is the “restorative theory of sleep”?

Answer 4

We sleep to repair, restore and replenish our bodies.

Question 5

What kind of brainwaves occur during being awake?

Answer 5

Beta

Question 6

What kind of brain waves occur doing stage one sleep?

Answer 6

Alpha

Question 7

What kind of brain waves occur during stage two sleep?

Answer 7

Theta

Question 8

What kind of brain waves happen in stage III sleep?

Answer 8

Theta and delta

Question 9

What kind of brain waves happen in stage four sleep?

Answer 9

Delta

Question 10

What kind of brain waves happen in REM sleep?

Answer 10

Beta (paradoxical sleep)

Question 11

What is the manifest content of dreams?

Answer 11

What actually happened.

Question 12

What is the latent content of dreams?

Answer 12

The “hidden” meaning, Freud’s wish fulfillment theory.

Question 13

What is the activation-synthesis hypothesis?

Answer 13

Dreams are caused by random activation of the pons that causes the cerebral cortex to interpret them into dreams.

Question 14

What is sleepwalking called?

Answer 14

Somnambulism

Question 15

What does a stimulant do?

Answer 15

Increases the function of the nervous system.

Question 16

How do depressants work?

Answer 16

Decreases the function of the nervous system.

Question 17

What is vicarious conditioning?

Answer 17

Response learned by watching someone else respond to the stimulus.