Sleep and Dreaming

Question 1

Circadian Rhythm AKA

Answer 1

sleep-wake cycle

Question 2

Circadean Rhythms

Answer 2

daily rhythmic cycles guided by a biological clock

goverened by the nervous system

Question 3

Effects of Circadian Rhythms

Answer 3

circadian rhythms affect yout behavior

Question 4

Circadean Drift

Answer 4

Circadean Rhythm affected by what’s going on in the environment

Mammoth Cave

Question 5

Cues to Sleep

Answer 5

Superchaismatic nuclei at the base of the hypothalamus

Question 6

What is sleep?

Answer 6

Altered state of consciousness

Question 7

Pre-Sleep

Answer 7

hypnogogic

semi dreamlike

hypnic jerk

Question 8

Sleep

Answer 8

unconscious

active brain

Question 9

Post-sleep

Answer 9

Hypnopompic

sleep paralysis

Question 10

Arousal Levels

Answer 10

Question 11

Stages of Sleep

Answer 11

Question 12

REM Sleep

Answer 12

Narrative dreams reported (80%)

breathing and heart rate increase

muscles relaxed

Question 13

Sleep and Memory

Answer 13

REM sleep aids procedural memory

SWS (slow wave sleep) aids declarative memory

Question 14

Developmental Changes

Answer 14

• Less sleep when adults
• circadean rhythms change when older
  
  • adolescents tend to go to sleep later/ wake up later
  • adults earlier/ wake up earlier

Question 15

Sleep Deprived Fatigue (graph)

Answer 15

Most tired in early morning

Question 16

Sleep Deprived Fatigue

Answer 16

memory problems

aggresive behavior

microsleeps

Question 17

Microsleeps

Answer 17

breif slips into sleep

little mental processing done

Question 18

Effects of lost REM sleep

Answer 18

If you deprive self more time in REM sleep once you sleep

Question 19

Sleep Disorders

Answer 19

Insomnia

Sleep Apnea

Somnambulism

Narcolepsy

Sleep Terrors (Night Terrors)

Question 20

Somnambulism

Answer 20

sleep walking

SWS

Question 21

Narcolepsy

Answer 21

Fall asleep at inappropriate times

Question 22

Sleep Terrors

Answer 22

Slow wave sleep

Emotions get out of wack

Question 23

Sleep Theories

Answer 23

• Restorative theory
• Evolutionary theory
• Off-line Neural processing

Question 24

Restorative theory

Answer 24

Restores body’s resources

Question 25

Evolutionary Theory

Answer 25

keeps body motionless, away from predators

conserve resources

Question 26

Off-line Neural Processing

Answer 26

EG., memory consolidation

Question 27

Dreams

Answer 27

• More emotional
• less logical but accepted
  
  • poorly remembered
• Sensory filled

Question 28

Why dream?

Answer 28

Problem solving

Activation-synthesis

Question 29

Manifest Content

Answer 29

What the dream seems to be about

Question 30

Latent Content

Answer 30

What the dream is really about

Question 31

Problem Solving

Answer 31

Cognitive

work on unresolved problems

Question 32

Activation-Synthesis

Answer 32

biological

brain-stem stimulates neurons to excercise

Question 33

Sleep Waves

Answer 33

• Beta
• Alpha
• Theta
• Sleep Spindles
• K Complexes
• Delta

Question 34

Sleep Waves- Awake

Answer 34

Beta and Alpha

Question 35

Sleep Waves- Stage 1

Answer 35

Theta Waves

Question 36

Sleep Waves- Stage 2

Answer 36

Sleep Spindles

K Complexes

Question 37

Sleep Waves- Stage 3

Answer 37

Theta Waves

Delta Waves

Question 38

Sleep Waves- Stage 4

Answer 38

Delta Waves

Question 39

Sleep Waves- REM Sleep

Answer 39

Theta Waves

Beta Waves

Question 40

Lucid Dreaming

Answer 40

Conscious of strangeness of dream then aware that dreaming

Question 41

Nightmare

Answer 41

• Bad dream
• Severe
• Can result from stress
• Problem– Emotional regulation
• Might remember beter because they’re so emotional