Chap 4

Question 1

Said Consciousness then does not appear to itself chopped up in bits, it is nothing jointed, it flows, a river or a stream, are the metaphors by which it most naturally is described in taking of it here after let us call it the stream of thought or consciousness of subjective life

Answer 1

William James

Question 2

Personal awareness of mental activities, internal Sensations and the external environment

Answer 2

Consciousness

Question 3

The capacity to selectively Focus your awareness on a particular stimuli, in your environment or on your internal thoughts or Sensations

Answer 3

Attention

Question 4

Peak of alertness and memory

Answer 4

9 a.m. and 9 p.m.

Question 5

Lowest body temperature

Answer 5

97 degrees Fahrenheit around 4 a.m.

Question 6

Highest body temperature

Answer 6

About 99° Fahrenheit around 4 p.m.

Question 7

Peak hearing visual taste and smell sensitivity

Answer 7

Two daily Peaks around 3 a.m. and 6 p.m.

Question 8

Lowest sensitivity to pain

Answer 8

Around 4 p.m.

Question 9

Highest sensitivity to pain

Answer 9

4 a.m.

Question 10

Peak degree of sleepiness

Answer 10

3 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Question 11

Eat melatonin hormone in blood

Answer 11

between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m.

Question 12

cycle or Rhythm that is roughly 24 hours long; the cyclical daily functions in biological and psychological processes

Answer 12

circadian rhythm

Question 13

a cluster of neurons in the hypothalamus in the brain that governs the timing of the Circadian rhythm

Answer 13

Suprachiasmatic nucleus

Question 14

A hormone manufactured in the pineal gland that produces sleepiness

Answer 14

Melatonin

Question 15

An instrument that uses electrodes placed on the scalp to measure and record the brain’s electrical activity

Answer 15

Electroencephalograph

Question 16

The graphic record of brain activity produced by an electroencephalograph

Answer 16

EEG or electroencephalogram

Question 17

The sleep during which rapid eye movements and dreaming usually occur and voluntary muscle activity is suppressed, also called active sleep or paradoxical sleep

Answer 17

Rem or REM sleep

Question 18

Quiet typically dreamless sleep in which rapid eye movements are absent, divided into four stages also called quiet sleep

Answer 18

Nrem sleep

Question 19

Brain wave pattern associated with alert wakefulness

Answer 19

Beta brain waves

Question 20

Brain wave pattern associated with relaxed wakefullness and drowsiness

Answer 20

Alpha brain waves

Question 21

Vivid sensory phenomena that occur during onset of sleep

Answer 21

Hypnagogic hallucinations

Question 22

temporary condition in which person is able to move upon Awakening in the morning or during the night

Answer 22

sleep paralysis

Question 23

short bursts of brain activity that characterize stage two n r e m sleep

Answer 23

sleep spindles

Question 24

single but large high voltage Spike of brain activity that characterizes stage 2 nrem sleep

Answer 24

K complex

Question 25

A phenomenon in which a person who is deprived in REM sleep greatly increases the amount of time spent in REM sleep at the first opportunity to sleep without interruption

Answer 25

REM rebound

Question 26

Vague Bland thought like ruminations about real life events that typically occur during nrem sleep, also called sleep meditation

Answer 26

Sleep thinking

Question 27

An unfolding sequence of thoughts perceptions and emotions that typically occurs during REM sleep and is experienced as a series of real life events

Answer 27

Dream

Question 28

A vivid and frightening or unpleasant anxiety dream that occurs during REM sleep

Answer 28

Nightmare

Question 29

In Freud's psychoanalytic theory the elements of dream that are consciously experienced and remembered by the dreamer

Answer 29

Manifest content

Question 30

In Freud's psychoanalytic theory the unconscious wishes thoughts and urges that are concealed in the Manifest content of the dream

Answer 30

Latent content

Question 31

The theory that brain activity during sleep produces dream images which are combined by the brain into a dream story

Answer 31

activation synthesis model of dreaming

Question 32

model of dreaming that emphasizes continuity of waking and dreaming cognition and states that dreaming is like thinking under conditions of reduced sensory input and the absence of voluntary control

Answer 32

neurocognitive model of dreaming

Question 33

serious and consistent sleep disturbances that interfere with daytime functioning and cause subjective distress

Answer 33

sleep disorder

Question 34

a category of sleep disorders involving disruptions in the amount quality or timing of sleep. includes insomnia, obstructive sleep apnea and narcolepsy

Answer 34

Dyssomnias

Question 35

a category of sleep disorders characterized by arousal or activation during sleep or sleep transitions. include sleepwalking, sleep Terrors, sleep sex and sleep-related eating disorder

Answer 35

Parasomnias

Question 36

a condition in which a person regularly experiences an inability to fall asleep, to stay asleep or to feel adequately rested by sleep

Answer 36

Insomnia

Question 37

A sleep disorder in which the person repeatedly stops breathing during sleep

Answer 37

Sleep apnea

Question 38

A sleep disorder characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness and brief lapses into sleep throughout the day

Answer 38

Narcolepsy

Question 39

A sudden loss of voluntary muscle strength and control that is usually triggered by an intense emotion

Answer 39

Cataplexy

Question 40

A sudden loss of voluntary muscle strength and control that is usually triggered by an intense emotion

Answer 40

Cataplexy

Question 41

A sleep disturbance characterized by an episode of increased physiological arousal, intense fear, and panic, frightening hallucinations and no recall of the episode the next morning typically occurs during stage 3 or 4 of nrem sleep also called night terrors.

Answer 41

Sleep terrors

Question 42

A sleep disturbance characterized by an episode of walking or performing other actions during stage 3 or 4 of nrem sleep

Answer 42

Sleepwalking

Question 43

Sleep disorder in which the sleeper will sleepwalk and eat compulsively

Answer 43

Sleep-related eating disorder

Question 44

a sleep disorder involving abnormal sexual behaviors and experiences during sleep also called sexsomnia

Answer 44

Sleep sex

Question 45

A Cooperative social interaction in which the hypnotized person responds to the hypnotist suggestions with changes in perceptions, memory, and behavior

Answer 45

Hypnosis

Question 46

a suggestion made during hypnosis asking a person to carry out a specific instruction following the hypnotic suggestion

Answer 46

post hypnotic suggestion

Question 47

the inability to recall specific information because of a hypnotic suggestion

Answer 47

posthypnotic amnesia

Question 48

the splitting of Consciousness into two or more simultaneous streams of mental activity

Answer 48

Dissociation

Question 49

theory proposed by Ernest Hilgard that explains hypnotic effects as being due to the splitting of Consciousness into two simultaneous streams of mental activity only one of which the hypnotic participant is consciously aware during hypnosis

Answer 49

Neo dissociation theory of hypnosis

Question 50

Hildegard's term for the hidden or dissociated stream of mental activity that continues during hypnosis

Answer 50

Hidden Observer

Question 51

Any one of a number of sustained concentration techniques that Focus attention and heighten awareness

Answer 51

Meditation