AP Psychology: Sleep and Dreams Flashcards
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| 5777935089 | Dream | A sequence of images, emotions and thoughts passing through a sleeping person's mind. | 0 | |
| 5777935780 | REM | Sleep phase during which dreams occur. | 1 | |
| 5777936303 | Insomnia | Persistent problems in falling asleep or staying asleep (the most common sleep disorder). | 2 | |
| 5778613054 | Narcolepsy | A sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks. The sufferer may lapse directly into REM sleep, often at inappropriate times. VERY rare | 3 | |
| 5778616808 | Sleep Apnea | A sleep disorder characterized by temporary cessations of breathing during sleep and repeated momentary awakenings. Overweight men are most likely to have this. | 4 | |
| 5778623140 | Night Terrors | A sleep disorder characterized by high arousal and an appearance of being terrified; unlike nightmares, these occur only during stage 4 sleep, within 2/3 hours of falling asleep and are seldom remembered. Happens mostly to children. | 5 | |
| 5778631993 | Manifest Content | According to Freud, the remembered story line of a dream | 6 | |
| 5778634339 | Freud | __________________ believed that dreams provide a psychic safety valve that discharges otherwise unacceptable things. | 7 | |
| 5778636369 | Latent Content | According to Freud, the underlying meaning of a dream. | 8 | |
| 5778643193 | Memories | One theory on dreams states that dreams may help fix the day's experiences into ____________________________. | 9 | |
| 5778646354 | Brain activity | One dream theory states that the _____________ _______________ associated with REM sleep provides the sleeping brain with periodic stimulation. | 10 | |
| 5778654191 | Neural | One dream theory states that random _________________ activity takes place when we dream, and dreams are our body's way of making sense of it. | 11 | |
| 5778660235 | Cognitive | One dream theory states that dreams reflect ____________________ development. | 12 | |
| 5778663133 | REM rebound | The tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation. | 13 | |
| 5778669596 | Sleep deprivation | The following are the effects of___________ _________: Weakened immune system Diminished productivity Increased cortisol levels Impaired concentration | 14 | |
| 5781791192 | Circadian Rhythms | Occur on a 24 hour cycle and include sleep and wakefulness;"Biological clock". | 15 | |
| 5781795468 | Melatonin | The sleep hormone; darkness promotes the release of this. | 16 | |
| 5781796295 | 90 | How many minutes is the average sleep cycle? | 17 | |
| 5781797021 | 1 | In which sleep stage do the brain waves look similar to those of a day dreamer? | 18 | |
| 5781797442 | 2 | In this sleep stage the waves produced are theta waves and are spindles. | 19 | |
| 5781798690 | 3/4 | These are the sleep stages with the deepest sleep and that produce delta waves. | 20 | |
| 5781799597 | Sleep cycle |  | 21 | |
| 5781800810 | REM sleep | This is often called paradoxical sleep; beta waves indicate this sleep stage. | 22 | |
| 5781804028 | Pineal gland | This produces melatonin and helps maintain the circadian rhythm | 23 | |
| 5781805476 | Suprachiasmatic nucleus | Located in the Hypothalamus this is concerned with the regulation of physiological circadian rhythms. | 24 | |
| 5781809287 | Sleep protects | This sleep theory states that sleep is evolutionarily advantageous because when animals are sleeping in a cave they are protected from predators and other threats. | 25 | |
| 5781813376 | Memory storage | Sleep theory that states that sleep's purpose is to restore, rebuild, and process the previous day's events. | 26 | |
| 5781813375 | Sleep helps us recuperate | Sleep theory that states that sleep helps to repair and restore brain tissue; sleep also helps flush toxins from the brain. | 27 | |
| 5781819694 | Sleep and growth | Sleep theory that states that when sleeping we produce growth hormones. | 28 | |
| 5781821841 | Sleep walking | A sleep disorder most common in children in which the victim walks in their sleep. Occurs during stage 4 sleep. | 29 | |
| 5781821842 | Sleep talking | A sleep disorder most common in children in which victims speak in their sleep. Occurs during stage 4 sleep. | 30 | |
| 5781824674 | Sleep eating | A sleep disorder most common in children in which victims eat in their sleep. Occurs during stage 4 sleep. | 31 | |
| 5781824803 | Wish fulfillment | Freud's theory that repressed desires are expressed through dreams. | 32 | |
| 5781826748 | Social Influence Theory | States that hypnotic subjects may simply be imaginative actors plating a social role (they do what they think they are supposed to) | 33 | |
| 5781828771 | Divided Consciousness Theory | States that hypnosis is a special state of consciousness. | 34 | |
| 5781819695 | Sleep and creative thinking | Sleep theory that states that decision making and creative thinking are improved after sleeping. | 35 |