Consciousness & Sleep

Question 1

Consciousness

Answer 1

A person’s awareness of everything that is going on around him or her at any given moment, which is used to organize behavior

Question 2

Conscious

Answer 2

High Concentration, Alert Wakefulness

Question 3

Unconscious

Answer 3

Little Attention, Little Awareness

Question 4

Altered State of Consciousness

Answer 4

State in which there is a shift in the quality of pattern of mental activity as compared to waking consciousness

Question 5

Mindfulness Meditation

Answer 5

Mental training practice that involves focusing your mind on your experiences (like your own emotions, thoughts, and sensations) in the present moment

Question 6

Altered State- Sleep

Answer 6

Sleep is one of the human body’s biological rhythms, natural cycles of activity that the body must go through

Question 7

Circadian Rhythm

Answer 7

The cycle of physiological and biological processes that fluctuate on a roughly 24-hour timetable (16 hours awake and 8 hours of sleep)

Question 8

The Wake/Sleep Cycle

Answer 8

Sleep has a biological rhythm, cycle every 90-110 minutes, five distinct stages. The pattern occurs three to five times per night

Question 9

EEG

Answer 9

Non-invasive test that records the electrical activity int he brain

Question 10

non-REM stage 1

Answer 10

Transition period between wakefulness and sleep, drifting in & out of sleep

Question 11

Non-REM Stage 2

Answer 11

Body temperature will drop, heart rate slows, breathing more shallow and irregular (20 minutes)

Question 12

Non-REM Stage 3 & 4

Answer 12

Slow-wave sleep, delta waves, begin to appear more often (35-45 Minutes)

Question 13

REM Sleep

Answer 13

Rapid eye movements and your muscles become almost paralyzed, brain waves as if we are awake (10 Minutes)

Question 14

REM or Sleep Paralysis

Answer 14

The presence or persistence of features of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep during the transition into or out of sleep

Question 15

Sleep Deprivation

Answer 15

Occurs any time that you get less sleep than your body needs. The degree of sleep deprivation can range from total acute sleep loss to chronic deprivation

Question 16

REM Rebound

Answer 16

Lengthening and increasing frequency and depth of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep which occurs after periods of sleep deprivation

Question 17

Microsleep

Answer 17

Microsleep is a fleeting, uncontrollable, brief episode of sleep which can last anywhere from a single fraction of a second up to 10 full seconds

Question 18

Circadian Rhythm

Answer 18

an out-of-sync sleep/wake cycle

Question 19

Jetlag

Question 20

Insomnia

Answer 20

The inability to get sleep, stay asleep, or get a good quality of sleep (psychological and psychological) Most people with insomnia spend more than 20 to 30 minutes falling asleep

Question 22

Narcolepsy

Answer 22

Sleep disorder in which a person falls immediately into REM sleep during the day without warning, Narcolepsy is a genetic disorder, usually a trigger is an intense emotion

Question 23

Sleep walking (Somnambulism)

Answer 23

The purposeful movement of sleep walking that occurs in a sleep-like state

Question 24

Nightmares

Answer 24

Bad dreams occurring during REM sleep

Question 25

Night Terrors

Answer 25

Relatively rare disorder in which the person experiences extreme fear and screams or runs around during deep sleep without waking fully (combines with sleepwalking)

Question 26

Dreams

Answer 26

A dream can include any of the images, thoughts, and emotions that are experienced during sleep