module 16-19

Question 1

What is a depressant?

Answer 1

Drug like barbituates, opiates, or alc that calm neural activity and slow body funtions

Question 2

Whats the circadian rhythm?

Answer 2

The way our bodies synchornize with the 24-hour cycle of day and night. An internal biological clock

Question 3

What is REM sleep?

Answer 3

When you are sleeping, the periods of fast eye movment, followed by energetic brain activity, most dreams happen

Question 4

What is NREM sleep?

Answer 4

Non-rapid eye movement sleep, encompasses all sleep stages besides REM sleep. Waves in NREM1 are much smaller than waves in NREM3, there are three stages of NREM sleep

Question 5

What are alpha waves?

Answer 5

The waves your brain gives off, can be seen on EEG. they are relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state

Question 6

What is insomnia?

Answer 6

Persistant problems of either falling or staying asleep; results in tiredness and increased risk of depression

Question 7

What is narcolepsy?

Answer 7

sudden attacks of overwhelming sleepiness, can be dangerous, for example falling alseep while driving

Question 8

What is Sleep apnea?

Answer 8

Stop breathing repeatidly while sleeping; effects, fatigue+ depression (a result of slow-wave sleep deprivation)

Question 9

What are night terrors? Who do they primarily effect?

Answer 9

Most common in children; appearing terrified, talking nonsense, or walking around during NREM3 sleep, different from nightmares

Question 10

What is manifest content?

Answer 10

the symbolic, remebered story line of a dream

Question 11

What is latent content?

Answer 11

the underlying and real meaning of the dream, not outright expressed

Question 12

List everything about Alcohol:

Answer 12

Depressant, disinhibitor, slows sympathetic nervous system activity, supresses REM sleep, GABA

Question 13

Barbituates:

Answer 13

tranqulizers, reduce anxiety, can be lethal, could cause overdose

Question 14

Opiates:

Answer 14

Depress neural functioning, includes herion, codeine, morphine, methadone. When flooded with artifical opiate, brain stops producing endorphines

Question 15

Stimulant:

Answer 15

excites neural activity, speeds up body functions. Includes; nitcotine, cocaine, meth, ecstacy

Question 16

Cocaine:

Answer 16

Stimulant, supplies brain w/ dopamine, seratonin, and norepinephrine

Question 17

Meth:

Answer 17

Reduces baseline dopamine levels after years of continual use; stimulant

Question 18

Ecstacy:

Answer 18

Stimulant, mild hallucinagen; triggers dopamine release, releases stored seratonin and blocks its reuptake

Question 19

hallucinagens:

Answer 19

Distort perceptions, evoke sensory images w out sensory input. (ex LSD, DMT, weed, molly)

Question 20

What are post-hypontic suggestions

Answer 20

Help alleviate headaches, asthma, and stress-related anxiety and skin disordrers, done after hypnosis where patients can harness their own healing powers

Question 21

As the night goes on dreams get—–, and the depth of sleep gets—–

Answer 21

longer, shallower

Question 22

Give an example of a hypnagonic sensation….what stage of sleep do they occur in?

Answer 22

falling, floating, rotating; NREM1

Question 23

In what stage do sleep talking and walking occur?

Answer 23

NREM3

Question 24

Sleep paralysis happens in what stage?

Answer 24

REM

Question 25

People who act out their dreams suffer from what disorder?

Answer 25

REM sleep behavior disorder

Question 26

The activation synthesis theory of dreaming says that dreams are just the cortex making sense of random signals coming from the what?

Answer 26

Brainstem

Question 27

After suffering trauma people commonly report?

Answer 27

Nightmares

Question 28

What are NREM3 waves called?

Answer 28

Delta waves

Question 29

Elderly people sleep:

Answer 29

many more cycles, less deep sleep, more waking up

Question 30

Which theory of hypnosis involves dissociation?

Answer 30

divided conciousness theroy

Question 31

Ernest Hilgred said there is a part of the hypnotized person that knows everything going on called the…

Answer 31

hidden observer

Question 32

T or F: the social phenomenon theory or hypnosis says people are actively faking

Answer 32

false

Question 33

Rapid bursts of brain activity that happen in stage 2 sleep

Answer 33

sleep spindles

Question 34

Why is REM sleep called paradoxical?

Answer 34

the brain looks awake