Sleep And Dreaming

Question 1

REM sleep

Answer 1

Part of the sleep cycle with rapid eye movements caused by eyes moving a lot behind the eyelids when dreaming occurs.

Question 2

Sleep cycle

Answer 2

A nightly pattern of deep sleep, light sleep, and dreaming

Question 3

NREM sleep

Answer 3

Non-rapid eye movement sleep (rapid eye movements do not occur)

Question 4

Sensory blockade

Answer 4

In REM sleep, all incoming sensory information is stopped

Question 5

Neuron

Answer 5

A nerve cell that transmits information

Question 6

Movement inhibition

Answer 6

In REM sleep, when movement is prevented

Question 7

Sleep deprivation

Answer 7

Not having enough sleep; this can affect physical functioning such as weight and brain functioning

Question 8

Circadian rhythms

Answer 8

Human body rhythms that have a daily (24-hour) cycle, such as the sleep-wake cycle

Question 9

Sleep-wake cycle

Answer 9

A circadian/ daily rhythm generally triggered by the day-night cycle

Question 10

Ulthradian rhythms

Answer 10

Rhythms that occur in a period of less than 24 hours, such as a sleep cycle

Question 11

Endogenous

Answer 11

Internal pacemakers; our biological clock

Question 12

Hormones

Answer 12

Chemical messengers taking messaged through the bloodstream

Question 13

Melatonin

Answer 13

A hormone involved in setting circadian rhythms, including the sleep-wake cycle and blood pressure

Question 14

Pineal gland

Answer 14

A small endocrine gland that produces melatonin. An endocrine gland produces hormones that are secreted into the bloodstream

Question 15

Exogenous

Answer 15

External cues in the environment that affect our biological clock

Question 16

Zeitgebers

Answer 16

External cues that synchronise our biological rhythms; for example, to a 24-hour clock

Question 17

Entrainment

Answer 17

When biological rhythms are matched to their environment triggers, such as circadian rhythms being set in response to external (light) cues

Question 18

Insomnia

Answer 18

Problems with sleeping at night that cause difficulties during the day

Question 19

Narcolepsy

Answer 19

Inability to control sleeping and waking, so experiencing involuntary daytime sleeping

Question 20

Hallucinations

Answer 20

Seeing, hearing, tasting, or feeling something that is not there, such as seeing monsters

Question 21

Cataplexy

Answer 21

A loss of muscle power and tone, triggered by an onset of strong emotions such as laughter

Question 23

ID

Answer 23

The part of Freud’s personality theory that is demanding thought of as ‘I want…’

Question 24

Superego

Answer 24

The part of Freud’s personality theory that is the conscience thought of as ‘you can’t have..’

Question 25

Ego

Answer 25

The part of freud's personality theory that is reasoning, to balance demands od rhe I'd and superego

Question 26

Manifest content

Answer 26

The story the dreamer tells of what happens in a dream

Question 27

Latent content

Answer 27

The deeper meaning behind what it is said, the dream is about

Question 28

Dreamwork

Answer 28

The transformation of unconscious thoughts into dream content

Question 30

Psychosexual stages

Answer 30

Freuds 1905 theory of child development (the oral,anal,phallic,latent and genital stages)

Question 31

Phallic stage

Answer 31

The third of freuds stages during which the Oedipus complex is worked through

Question 32

Oedipus complex

Answer 32

Part of freuds phallic stage, a boy has unconscious feelings for his mother and hates his father, who he sees as a rival and fears will castrate him