chapter 4 review quiz

obstructive sleep apnea occurs when _______

An individual's airway becomes blocked during sleep.

what occurs during stage 1 sleep?

Both our respiration and heartbeat slow down.

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

biological

Which Psychodynamic theorist proposed the idea of a collective unconscious that is shared by all members of the human species.

carl jung

bev likes to be up late at night and sleep in; Caleb likes to wake up with the sun and go to bed early. A psychologist would say they have different ________

chronotypes

most people are awake during the day and asleep during the night because their _____ cycles are alined with the outside world.

circadian

alcohol is considered a _______ because it tends to suppress central nervous system activity.

depressant

______ theory suggests that when people are hypnotised they have voluntarily divided their conscious: one half aware of reality and the other half turned in to the hypnotist.

dissociative

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

evolutionary

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

hallucinogenic

mona lives on the east coast of the USA. She takes an overnight flight to the west coast to visit some family for a month; when she arrives she is fatigued, sluggish, and 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 behaviour disorder?

kicking and punching while asleep

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

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

Sleepwalking, night terrors, and restless leg syndrome are all examples of________.

parasomnias

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 dependance

Cocaine is considered a ________ drug because it tends to increase overall levels of neural activity.

stimulant

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

suffers from chronic sleep deprivation.

which theory of dreams suggests that they do not in fact have any meaning at all but rather are the brains attempts to make sense of random neutral firing that occurs while we sleep?

the activation synthesis model

Individuals undergoing hypnosis ________.

usually have clear memories of the hypnotic experience and are in control of their own behaviors