PSY CHAPTER 4

Which of the following statements about nightmares is FALSE?

A nightmare is basically an unpleasant anxiety dream that occurs during the deep sleep of stage 4 NREM.

____ is the capacity to selectively focus senses and awareness on particular stimuli or aspects of the environment.

Attention

Active sleep is to _____ as quiet sleep is to _____

REM sleep NREM sleep

As you are reading this question, you are awake and alert. This means that your brain is generating _____ brain waves.

beta

The rhythmic electrical patterns of the brain are called:

brain waves.

Yair failed to notice when his girlfriend Lena got her hair cut because he wasn't paying attention to her hair. Not noticing that Lena cut her hair is an example of:

change blindness.

If you are like most people, you experience daily fluctuations in many bodily processes, such as blood pressure, the secretion of hormones, and so on. These daily variations in biological and psychological processes are called:

circadian rhythms.

Insomnia is characterized as

complaints about the quality or duration of sleep, the difficulty in going to sleep or staying asleep, or the waking before it is time to get up.

As you are taking this test right now, you are aware of your thoughts, sensations, memories, and different aspects of the surrounding environment. Collectively, this awareness is referred to as:

consciousness.

At any given moment, we are faced with more information than we can effectively process. This suggests that attention is:

limited in capacity

During REM sleep, young Franny experienced a very vivid and disturbing dream involving fear, anxiety, and aggression that caused her to wake up in a very frightened state. Franny has had a:

nightmare

Vivid and disturbing dreams that often awaken the sleeper and typically involve feelings of helplessness or powerlessness in the face of being aggressively attacked or pursued are called:

nightmares.

REM is an acronym that stands for:

rapid eye movements.

Parasomnias are

sleep disorders characterized by arousal or activation during sleep or sleep transitions and include sleep terrors, sleepsex, sleepwalking, and sleep-related eating disorder.

Dyssomnias are:

sleep disorders involving disruptions in the amount, quality, or timing of sleep.

Which of the following is an example of a parasomnia?

sleep terrors

Vague, bland, thoughtlike ruminations about real-life events that usually occur during NREM slow-wave sleep are characteristic of:

sleep thinking.

As you are lying in bed, your mind begins to drift and you become increasingly drowsy. During this short, transitional stage of sleep you disengage from the routine sounds in your environment. This sleep stage is called:

stage 1 NREM.

Sleepwalking typically occurs during

stage 4 NREM.

Exposure to sunlight and other bright lights:

suppresses the production of melatonin.