Psy.-Ch.4 Study Guide

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Regular factors of hunger are an example of BLANK

biological

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

Melatonin release is stimulated by ________ and inhibited by ________.

darkness, light

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

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

kicking and punching while asleep

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

The hidden meaning of a dream is the _______ content

latent

In a BLANK dream, people become aware that they are dreaming and can control the dream's content.

lucid

Nancy is aware that she is dreaming when she has a nightmare, so she concentrates and changes her dream from bad to good. This is a good example of ________ dreaming.

lucid

Isla is describing her dream to a friend. She explains that in her dream she's being chased by zombies and she escaped them by hiding in a refrigerator. Her description of her dream is focused on BLANK content.

manifest

Samek was driving to work when he suddenly felt paralyzed and couldn't resist falling asleep. 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

Morphine is considered an BLANK drug because it decreases pain

opioid

NREM sleep is a period of sleep BLANK

outside periods of REM sleep

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

parasomnias

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

suffers from chronic sleep deprivation

Individuals undergoing hypnosis ________.

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

The BLANK rhythm is the biological rhythm that occurs over approximately 24 hours

Circadian

BLANK theory suggests that when people are hypnotized they have voluntarily divided their conscious, one half aware of reality and the other half tuned in to the hypnotist.

Dissociative

When Brady is hot he sweats. When Brady is cold, he gets goose bumps on his skin so he will warm up more quickly. This is an example of how the body tries to achieve ________.

Homeostasis

which of the following is an example of wakefulness?

Jenna, competing in a marathon

Mona lives in North Carolina. She takes an overnight flight to California to visit with 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

BLANK is one of a group of sleep disorders in which unwanted, disruptive motor activity and/or experiences during sleep play role.

Parasomnia

BLANK involves a virtual reality model of the world

Protoconsciousness

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

Rosalind Cartwright

Which theorist described dreams as having manifest and latent content?

Sigmund Freud

Hamid is a 9-1-1 operator. When the blizzard began, he was told he would have to stay and work three extra shifts to cover for coworkers who were not able to drive to work through the storm. After 32 hours of exhausting work, he makes it home and discovers he is unable to fall asleep no matter how hard he tries. Hamid is experiencing BLANK

Sleep rebound

Sleepwalking is also referred to as BLANK

Somnambulism

Shyla experiences a long delay between the time that she goes to bed and the time that she actually falls asleep. In addition, she wakes up several times during the night and has difficulty getting back to sleep. To diagnose Shyla with insomnia, it is necessary that she experiences these symptoms________.

at least three nights a week for one month


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