Sleep Flashcards

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Stage one of the sleep cycle

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Breathing slows, a regular brain waves begin, easily awakened, last 5 to 10 minutes, happens 4 to 5 times a night, hypno jerk thing

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What is used to measure brain activity

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EEG to create graphs of electricity in brain. Tells you where you are in the sleep cycle

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Stage two of sleep cycle

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Move into deeper sleep, brainwave shows spindles or tight bursts of activity, still easily awakened, lasts about 20 minutes

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Stage III of the sleep cycle

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Deeper sleep again, brain waves begin to show large slow waves which are delta waves, lasts about 20 to 30 minutes, sleep talking can happen now or any later stage

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Stage four of the sleep cycle

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Deepest sleep, very difficult to wake up, all delta waves, most restorative stage of sleep, sleepwalking, night terrors which are when you wake up screaming but don’t remember

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Rapid eye movement stage

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A.k.a. dream sleep, brain pattern similar to those when awake, paradoxical sleep since externally still but internally very active, about 20% of entire night is spend streaming, lucid dream is when you can control what happens

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Two main reasons for sleep

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Restoration and preservation

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Fancy term for sleepwalking

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Somnambulism

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What sleep disorder is category rise by heavy loud snoring

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Sleep apnea

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Another term for teeth grinding

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Bruxism

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How long is one sleep cycle

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90 minutes

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Klein-levin syndrome

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Sleeping beauty thing

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REM behavior disorder

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Do stuff in dreams in real life

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FFI

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Cannot sleep until you die

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Norcolepsy

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Sleepy pouch

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Sigmund Freud dream theory

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Dreams are highly symbolic, dreams reflect repressed wishes related to sexual desire, nightmares are the results of anxiety surrounding this desire

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Jung dream theory

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Student of Freud, believed in commonality of human experience which led to his idea of collective unconscious , common dream themes are shared by all people, themes equal archetypes

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Fixed meanings dream theory

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Items and dreams have fixed meaning and they always mean the same thing, and example is a dream about oranges means good health

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Physiological dream theory

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Dreams are simply random electrical activity in the brain, explains why dreams are often so bizarre with no coherent story line

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Memory enhancer dream theory

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Dreams serve to process events of the day and consolidate them in our memory

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Lucid dreaming

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Knowing that you are dreaming , sometimes allows a person to control the dream

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Hypnosis

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A state of heightened suggestibility

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Who discovered hypnosis

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Anton Mesmer, cures patients by passing magnets over them, patients were said to be mesmerized, patient felt better due to power of suggestion

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Social influence theorY

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We respond to the suggestions of other people, source is external, play the part

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Divided consciousness theory

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Consciousness can be split, source is internal

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What is the process of hypnosis

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Induction: focus on what’s being said, relax and feel tired, let go and accept suggestions, use of vivid imagination

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Who can be hypnotized

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More likely if you can focus attention and be imaginative, about 15% of population is very suggestive, seven out of eight people can be hypnotized

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What can hypnosis do

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Relieve pain, person will do crazy things under hypnosis

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What can hypnosis not do

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Superhuman feats, promote accurate memory of an event, age regression