Chapter 4 *PY201

Cataplexy is a symptom associated with ________.

narcolepsy

Samek was driving to work when he suddenly felt paralyzed and couldna to resist falling sleep. Samek may have ______.

narcolepsy

After Omar falls asleep he feels a sense of panic, screams, and attempts to escape from his room. Which parasomnia does Omar have?

night terrors

obstructive sleep apnea occurs when______.

An individual's airway becomes blocked during sleep

Which occurs during stage 1 sleep?

Both our respiration and heartbeat slow down

Mohammed is sleeping. His eyelids are quivering because his eyes are darting around. Mohammed is probably experiencing ________ sleep.

REM

Which researcher believed that dreams simply reflect life events that are important to the dreamer?

Rosalind Cartwright

Which theory of dreams suggested that they do not, in fact, have any meaning at all but rather are simply the brain's attempt to make sense of random neural firing that occurs while we sleep?

The activation-synthesis model

Which of the following is not risk factor for SIDS?

above average birth weight

Regular feelings of hunger are an example of a(n) ________ rhythm.

biological

Individuals undergoing hypnosis ________.

can be coerced into harming themselves and others by a skilled hypnotist

Most people are awake during the day and asleep at night because their ________ cycles are aligned with the outside world.

circadian

______ theory suggests that when people are hypnotized they have voluntarily divided their conscious; one half aware of reality and other half tuned hypnotist.

dissociative

Which psychological perspective might advance the argument that our sleep patterns evolved as an adaptive response to predatory risks, which are highest of darkness?

evolutionary

Mescaline is considered a ________ drug because it results in profound alterations in sensory and perceptual experiences.

hallucinogenic

Which terms describes the tendency to maintain a balance, or optimal level, within a biological system?

homesostasis

Mona lives on the east coast of the USA. She takes an overnight flight to the west to visit with family for a month, when she arrives she is fatigued, irritable. For the next week or so she has trouble sleeping. Mona is probably suffering from______.

jet lag

Which of the following is a symptom of REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD)?

kicking and punching while asleep

Tariq depends on cigarettes to relieve his stress, though he smokes so infrequently that he experiences no significant, noticeable physical symptoms when he is not smoking. What does this exemplify?

psychological dependence

Shoresh suggests that Ted cluck like a chicken during the hypnosis not because he is experiencing an altered state of consciousness but because he is playing the role of a hypnotized person. This is a good example of the ________ theory of hypnotism.

social-cognitive

In Freud's model of dreams, the hidden meaning of a dream is called the ______ content.

latent

Marlowe wakes up from a dream about his teeth falling out. He looks in a dream dictionary and finds losing teeth is usually dream symbolism for anxiety. Marlowe is focused on the ________ content.

latent

A state of ________, as shown by EEG recordings of new practitioners, is not an altered state of consciousness; however, patterns of brain waves exhibited by expert practitioners may represent a unique state of consciousness.

meditation

Victoria has accumulated a large sleep debt. This means that she ________.

suffers from chronic sleep deprivation

Tayla smokes marijuana. At first, just a few inhalations were enough to cloud her mind. Over time, she needs to smoke more and more to achieve the same affect. This is an example of ________.

tolerance