Ch 5 Variations In Consciousness

Question 0

What do circadian rhythms responsible for?

Answer 0

Modulating body temperature, heart rate, metabolism, and sleep

Question 1

What are suprachiramasmatic nuclei responsible for?

Answer 1

Control of circadian rhythms

Question 2

What are the 5 stages of sleep?

Answer 2

1. First 2 ish mins. Falling feeling and hallucinations
2. About 20 mins Feelings of relaxation
3. Transition period
4. Slow wave sleep Delta waves about 30 mins, sleepwalking, bed wetting
5. REMOVE

Question 3

What are three reasons sleep is important?

Answer 3

Restorative, ecological niche, and growth

Question 4

What are the 5 types of insomnia?

Answer 4

Transient, learned, psychiatric, physiological, and subjective

Question 5

What is transient insomnia?

Answer 5

Insomnia that lasts for a few days, due to anxiety

Question 6

What is learned insomnia?

Answer 6

Being worried about falling asleep, become conditioned

Question 7

What is psychiatric insomnia?

Answer 7

Pathological reasons like anxiety that cause Insomnia

Question 8

What is psysiologal insomnia?

Answer 8

Things keeping you from sleeping like body pain

Question 9

What is subjective insomnia?

Answer 9

Not thinking you get enough sleep, may be underlying psych disorders

Question 10

When do dreams happen?

Answer 10

During rem sleep normally

Question 11

Why do we dream? Identify 4 reasons?

Answer 11

Information processing, activation synthesis, problem solving, and wish fulfillment

Question 12

What is polysomnigraphy?

Answer 12

Measuring brain waves while you sleep to look for insomnia and other sleep disturbances

Question 13

When does slow wave sleep happen? Before or after REM?

Answer 13

Before

Question 14

What is rem sleep? Give 5 examples of characteristics

Answer 14

Deep sleep, rapid eye movement, high frequency low amplitude brain waves, vivid dreaming

Question 15

During slow wave sleep, what types of EEG activation is prominent?

Answer 15

Delta

Question 16

Does a child, infant, adult, or elderly person spend more time in REM sleep?

Answer 16

An infant

Question 17

What would happen if your reticular activating system was broken?

Answer 17

You would experience constant sleep

Question 18

Amphetamines work by increasing the levels of what?

Answer 18

Noeprinephrine and dopamine

Question 19

What are the 4 stages of EEG patterns (hint: normal waking, deep relaxation, light sleep, deep sleep)

Answer 19

beta
alpha
theta
delta

Question 20

during slow wave sleep (stages 3 and 4) what are the type of brain waves present?

Answer 20

delta

Question 21

What is William dement known for?

Answer 21

studying sleep deprivation

Question 22

Why do we need REM and slow-wave sleep?

Answer 22

firming of learning that takes place during the day (memory consolidation)

Question 23

what is a possible treatment for insomnia? (2 types of drugs)

Answer 23

benzodiazephine sedatives, nonbenozo sedatives

Question 24

Why can sedatives for insomnia be a poor-long term solution?

Answer 24

because of carryover effects, and they gradually become less effective

Question 25

What is REM sleep behaviour disorder marked by?

Answer 25

troublesome dream enactments (punching in dreams)

Question 26

What did Rosalind Cartwright have to say about dreams?

Answer 26

dreams provide an opportunity to work trhough everyday problems

Question 27

What did Hobson and McCarley say about dreams?

Answer 27

Dreams are the byproduct of bursts of activity from the brain

Question 28

Explain the activation-synthesis model

Answer 28

dreams are side effects of the neural activation that produces wide awake brain waves during REM

Question 29

what are the 4 effects that can be produced through hypnosis?

Answer 29

anaesthesia sensory distortions disinhibition posthypnotic amnesia

Question 30

What century did hypnosis start?

Answer 30

18th

Question 31

What is the social cognitive approach of hypnosis?

Answer 31

hypnosis is a normal state of consciousness

Question 32

What are the 6 principal categories of drugs and what are their main effects?

Answer 32

Narcotics-- relieve pain Sedatives-- decrease CNS activation and behaviour Stimulants-- increase CNS and behaviour activity Hallucinogens- mental and emot function, distortion Cannabis and Alcohol

Question 33

What is the mesolimbic dopamine pathway?

Answer 33

the "reward" pathway that certain drugs may travel through, to create addiction

Question 34

When taking a test, what brain waves are present/

Answer 34

beta

Question 35

in terms of jet lag, flying in which direction leads to the greatest difficulty?

Answer 35

east

Question 36

during slow wave sleep, which pattern of EEG activation is prominent?

Answer 36

Delta

Question 37

True or false, as someone is sleeping through the night, they spend more time in REM sleep and less time in NREM sleep

Answer 37

true

Question 38

Is cocaine a stimulant or a depressant?

Answer 38

stimulant

Question 39

is alcohol a stimulant or a depressant?

Answer 39

depressant

Question 40

Are barbitchates sedatives or narcotics?

Answer 40

sedatives

Question 41

What is the terror management theory?

Answer 41

elf-esteem and faith shield people from anxiety around death

Question 42

what did Markus and Kitayama say about western culture?

Answer 42

Western culture fosters an independent conception of self, where as asian culture foster an interdependent view of the self

Question 43

What is the MMPI?

Answer 43

self-report inventory used to diagnose people on a scale of different mental issues

Question 44

What is the TAT test?

Answer 44

tell stories about scenes. the themes in each story can be scored to give insight about someones personality

Question 45

are projective tests such as the TAT and Rorschach tests reliable and valid?

Answer 45

somewhat

Question 46

If someone thinks they will do well on a test, according to Bandura, what describes the nature of his confidence?

Answer 46

strong feelings of self-efficacy

Question 47

what approach to personality is the least deterministic?

Answer 47

humanistic

Question 48

in the Nurture Assumption, Judith Harris presents evidence concerning the effects of family enviornment on children's personalities. Is the effect small or large?

Answer 48

small