Chapter 5 Flashcards
Consciousness
mental awareness of experiencing the physical, mental, and emotional world
Circadian rhythm
Your natural 24 hour cycle sleep pattern
Suprachiasmiatic Nucleus
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
Sleep is an unconscious state
False
Drugs classified as depressants are generally used to treat___
Insomnia and Anxiety
Facts about what happens during REM sleep & dreams
You encode memories // You work through your emotional issues // You solve problems // You learn new skills
Organization of senses you are most to least likely to experience in dreams:
- Visual
- Auditory
- Touch
- Smell
Subliminal influence works
False
Sleep Apnea
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
Insomnia
A sleep disorder involving chronic difficulties with falling or staying asleep
Narcolepsy
A sleep disorder in which a person falls asleep suddenly & uncontrollably
Night Terrors
A sleep disorder occurring during deep sleep that involves dramatic expressions of fear, with accelerated heart rate and respiration
REM Re-bound
The tendency to spend more time in REM sleep if deprived of it on previous nights
Depressents
Drugs that decrease activity levels in the nervous system
Stimulants
Drugs that increase activity levels in the nervous system
Psychedelics
Drugs that distort perception and can trigger hallucinations, changes in moods, thoughts, sense of self, and even feelings of insight
Hypnosis
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
Introspect
The process of examining one’s own internal thoughts and feelings
Subliminal perception
A form of perception that occurs without conscious awareness
Stage 1
light sleep characterized by theta waves
Stage 2
characterized by reduced sensitivity to the external environment and burst of brain activity called “K” complexes
Stage 3 & 4
characterized by large regular delta waves also the deepest stages of sleep
REM
characterized by an alert mind bursts of beta wave activity and vivid dreams
Someone thinks they are seeing demons in their room and one of them is sitting on their chest. They are experiencing___
Sleep Paralysis
Stimulants such as Meth or Cocaine produce a surge of which neurotransmitter
Dopamine
REM is the deepest stage of sleep
False
Psychedelic drugs have___
unpredictable effects
Emotions in dreams are somewhat muted
false
