Chapter 5

Question 1

Consciousness

Answer 1

mental awareness of experiencing the physical, mental, and emotional world

Question 2

Circadian rhythm

Answer 2

Your natural 24 hour cycle sleep pattern

Question 3

Suprachiasmiatic Nucleus

Answer 3

The structure in your brain that helps you regulate your sleep and wakeful states and does so by assessing how much light you are seeing

Question 4

Sleep is an unconscious state

Answer 4

False

Question 5

Drugs classified as depressants are generally used to treat___

Answer 5

Insomnia and Anxiety

Question 6

Facts about what happens during REM sleep & dreams

Answer 6

You encode memories // You work through your emotional issues // You solve problems // You learn new skills

Question 7

Organization of senses you are most to least likely to experience in dreams:

Answer 7

1. Visual
2. Auditory
3. Touch
4. Smell

Question 8

Subliminal influence works

Answer 8

False

Question 9

Sleep Apnea

Answer 9

A sleep disorder in which a person’s breathing is interrupted because of obstructions in the airway or problems with the brains control of breathing

Question 10

Insomnia

Answer 10

A sleep disorder involving chronic difficulties with falling or staying asleep

Question 11

Narcolepsy

Answer 11

A sleep disorder in which a person falls asleep suddenly & uncontrollably

Question 12

Night Terrors

Answer 12

A sleep disorder occurring during deep sleep that involves dramatic expressions of fear, with accelerated heart rate and respiration

Question 13

REM Re-bound

Answer 13

The tendency to spend more time in REM sleep if deprived of it on previous nights

Question 14

Depressents

Answer 14

Drugs that decrease activity levels in the nervous system

Question 15

Stimulants

Answer 15

Drugs that increase activity levels in the nervous system

Question 16

Psychedelics

Answer 16

Drugs that distort perception and can trigger hallucinations, changes in moods, thoughts, sense of self, and even feelings of insight

Question 17

Hypnosis

Answer 17

A relaxed state of mind in which a person is especially receptive to suggestions made by a hypnotist and feels their actions and thoughts are happening to them rather than being produced voluntarily

Question 18

Introspect

Answer 18

The process of examining one’s own internal thoughts and feelings

Question 19

Subliminal perception

Answer 19

A form of perception that occurs without conscious awareness

Question 20

Stage 1

Answer 20

light sleep characterized by theta waves

Question 21

Stage 2

Answer 21

characterized by reduced sensitivity to the external environment and burst of brain activity called “K” complexes

Question 22

Stage 3 & 4

Answer 22

characterized by large regular delta waves also the deepest stages of sleep

Question 23

REM

Answer 23

characterized by an alert mind bursts of beta wave activity and vivid dreams

Question 24

Someone thinks they are seeing demons in their room and one of them is sitting on their chest. They are experiencing___

Answer 24

Sleep Paralysis

Question 25

Stimulants such as Meth or Cocaine produce a surge of which neurotransmitter

Answer 25

Dopamine

Question 26

REM is the deepest stage of sleep

Answer 26

False

Question 27

Psychedelic drugs have___

Answer 27

unpredictable effects

Question 28

Emotions in dreams are somewhat muted

Answer 28

false