Chapter 3, dreams

According to the cognitive development perspective dreams ___ reality

Simulate

The fact that during sleep the pituitary gland Releases a hormone necessary for muscle development supports the theory that

Sleep support growth

When high schools in Seattle Washington started 55 minutes later students

Slept more and their grades improved

The tendency for rem sleep to increase following rem sleep deprivation is referred to as

REM rebound

During an argument Trisha tries to rescue the discredited proposition that we only use 10% of our brain by suggesting that the saying is intended to mean that we are only aware of a small percentage of our brains work and then a lot of processing goes on that we are unaware of Tricias argument reference the notion of

Dual processing

The principle that information is often stimultaneously processed on separate parallel conscious and unconscious tracks is known as ___ processing

Dual processing

If one studies through the night and does not sleep to prepare for an exam how is this most likely to affect one's ability to remember material the next day during the exam

They will remember less than if they slept

What is not a good idea if one wishes to get a better nights sleep

Exercising before bed

The distinction between manifest content and Latin continent is central to ___ theory of dreams

Freud's wish fulfillment

Memory expert Erik Kandel claims that ____ of what the mind does is unconsious

Great majority

Gabe goes to bed at his regular time and as he begins to drive slowly off to sleep he jumps up suddenly as he feels he is falling down the stairs this is best explained by a ___ sensation

Hypnagogic

As the night progresses what happens to the rem stage of sleep

It increases in duration

Julie had a dream that her mother was angry at her for some unknown reason Freud Might suggest that the dream actually means that she is envious of her mother and that she's superficial meaning of the dream was just a cover for the ___ content or underlying meaning

Latent

A manufacturing company installs bright lights in a plant in which many employees work the 11 PM to 7 AM shift the lights simulate morning sun helping the nucleus to reduce the production of the sleep inducing hormone called

Melatonin

The brain admits large slow delta waves during

N3

People with the sleep disorder experience periodic overwhelming sleepiness

Narcolepsy

Which statement regarding sleep and dreaming is false

Older people sleep more than younger adults do

Sleep researchers agree that

We need REM sleep

What is the difference between narcolepsy and sleep apnea

With narcolepsy, the person periodically falls directly into REM sleep, with no warning; with sleep apnea, the person repeatedly awakens during the night.

sleep apnea

a disorder in which the person stops breathing for brief periods while asleep

___ Is the interdisciplinary Study of the links between brain states and mental experiences

cognitive neuroscience

Among adults the most common sleep disorder involves

ongoing trouble falling or staying asleep

Dreaming helps us function by

organizing information

Those who complain of insomnia typically _______ how long it actually takes them to fall asleep and ________ how long they actually slept.

overestimate; underestimate

Sleep

periodic, natural loss of consciousness--as distinct from unconsciousness resulting from a coma, general anesthesia, or hibernation

Narcolepsy

uncontrollable sleep attacks

Five possible reasons why we have that sleep

1. Sleep protects 2. Sleep held up recuperate 3. Sleep helps restore and rebuild or fading memories of the days experiences 4. Sleep aids creative thinking 5. Sleep supports growth

In which of these decades which psychologist have been least likely to claim of research interest and consciousness

1930

Which term is most synonymous with consciousness, as psychologist define it

Awareness

During the in one sleep stage a person is most likely to experience

B

Please watch the live tennis match and did not realize that a bird had landon on the empty seat next to him his inability to notice the bird can be explained by in attentional

Blindness

Selective attention is illustrated by ___ blindness ____ blundeds

Both in attentional and change

Nearest scientist study consciousness and its connection to

Brain activity

Which of the following is not one of the reasons that I've been proposed to explain why we need sleep

C

During commencement a parent sat waiting for their child's name to be called she failed to realize that the person initially reading of the graduates names left and then a new person was now reading the scenario illustrates

Change blindness

Her body temperature tends to rise and fall in sync with the biological clock which is referred to as the

Circadian rhythm

REM sleep

Rapid eye movement sleep, a recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur. Also known as paradoxical sleep, because the muscles are relaxed (except for minor twitches) but other body systems are active.

How was activation synthesis been used to explain why we dream

The activation synthesis theory suggests that dreams are the brains attempt to synthesize random neural activity

A woman is able to point out her friend who just yelled her name

The cocktail party effect

Delts waves

The large slow brain waves associated with deep sleep

suprachiasmatic nucleus

a pair of cell clusters in the hypothalamus that controls circadian rhythm, modifies feeling of sleepiness

Manifest content

according to Freud, the remembered story line of a dream

latent content

according to Freud, the underlying meaning of a dream

Hallucinations

false sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus

What is the most common sleep disorder

insomnia

In interpreting dreams, Freud was most interested in their

latent content, or hidden meaning

insonmia

recurring problems in falling or staying asleep

___ Processing occurs when just one aspect of a stimulus is processed at a time

sequential

With respect to its function sleep does not

spur the production of free radicals.

Circadian rhythm

the biological clock; regular bodily rhythms that occur on a 24-hour cycle

Alpha waves

the relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state

Two track mind

the simultaneous functioning of both the conscious and unconscious minds (water sprayed in face= dream about waterfalls)

REM rebound

the tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation (created by repeated awakenings during REM sleep)