Chapter 5 and Creativity/Problem Solving

Question 0

The inability to fall asleep or stay asleep. Approximately 30% of adults suffer from this at some point. About 20% have chronic.Acute vs. Situational: Acute-more prolonged; Situational- driven by stressors

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Insomnia

Question 1

Nocturnal fright that you usually don’t remember because they occur in NREM sleep. Not as common. Results in waking up screaming, can’t wake person up.

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Night terrors

Question 2

Nod off without warning; not necessarily good sleep, you wake up still tired.

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Narcolepsy

Question 3

Suddenly losing all muscle tone; Loss of cells in hypothalamus

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Cataplexy

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Stop breathing in your sleep

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Sleep apnea

Question 5

The plot of the dream

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Manifest content

Question 6

Manifest content- the plot of the dream. Latent content: The underlying meaning of a dream. Evidence: frontal lobe is very inactive during REM sleep but the limbic system is very active. That tells us that fighting/femating is active.
Manifest content: the plot of the dream

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Freud’s theory on dreams

Question 7

Theory that dreams help file away memories

Evidence: Brain scans

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Information processing theory

Question 8

Theory that we need dreams to keep active and if not we lose those neurons, we need dreams to keep those pathways alive

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Develop/preserve neural pathways

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Dreams are our brain’s way of making sense of random neural firings; Chopped

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Activation Synthesis Theory

Question 10

Theory that dreams are developmentally bound and help maturation; As we age, our dreams match what age we are.

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Cognitive Development

Question 11

Our awareness of ourselves and our environment

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Consciousness

Question 12

All the different states of thoughts, feelings, perceptions occupying the mind when you are reasonably alert

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Waking consciousness

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States that are notably different from normal, waking consciousness

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Altered states of consciousness

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Why do we sleep?

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Sleep protects us from doing crazy things
Helps us recuperate 
Make new memories 
Feeds creative thinking
May play a role in the growth process

Question 15

Suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) 
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Circadian Rhythm