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1
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How many years do we spend asleep in one lifetime?

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25 years

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2
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Normal sleep

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7-8 hours

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Short sleep

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5 hours or less

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Long sleep

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9 hours or more

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5
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How much do people 50 and older sleep?

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6 hours

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6
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How much do infants sleep?

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20 hours of sleep in 2-4 hour cycles

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Small, fast brain waves associated with being awake and alert

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beta waves

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Large, slow brain waves associated with being asleep

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Alpha waves

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Where stage of sleep involves hypnotic jerk, irregular & small brain waves (sometimes alpha waves)?

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Stage 1

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Which stage of sleep is associated with sleep spindles?

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Stage 2

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Distinctive bursts of brain wave activity that indicates a person is asleep and prevents sleeping brain from being aroused by external stimuli

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Sleep Spindles

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What kind of waves start in stage 3 of sleep?

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delta waves

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13
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What sleep stage is associated with deep sleep and a state of oblivion?

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Stage 4

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14
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How long does stage 4 sleep last?

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about an hour

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15
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How many recurring cycles do light and deep sleep go through?

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4-5

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16
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What percentage of people report vivid dreaming when woken up during REM sleep?

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85%

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17
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What percentage of sleep is REM sleep?

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20%

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Kind/stage of sleep that heightens emotions, has irregular heart beat, blood pressure and breathing waver, and sexual arousal

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REM

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19
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lack of muscle paralysis during REM sleep

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REM behavior disorder

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20
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Woke up volunteers when they reached REM

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William Dement

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21
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occurrence of extra REM sleep following REM sleep deprivation

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REM rebound

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22
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proposes that lowering body and brain activity and metabolism during sleep may help conserve energy and lengthen life

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repair/restorative theories of sleep

23
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17 year old with the world record of 11 days without sleep. Only needed 14 hours of sleep to recover.

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Randy Gardener

24
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excessive daytime sleepiness, common in adolescence

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hypersomnia

25
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How many car crashes happen a year due to sleepiness?

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72,000

26
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What stage does REM sleep happen?

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later stage 1

27
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Higher after physical exertion, slow brain waves, dreamless, may help recover bodily fatigue

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NREM

28
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How much do we dream a night?

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4-5 times in 90 minute intervals

29
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Who had the first advanced idea that many dreams are based on wish fulfillment?

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Freud

30
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Freudian belief that many dreams express unconscious desires

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wish fulfillment

31
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the surface “visible” content of a dream as the dreamer remembers them to uncover latent content.

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manifest content

32
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hidden or symbolic meaning of a dream as revealed by dream interpretation and analysis

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latent content

33
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proposition that dreams are how brains process random electrical discharges of REM sleep (useless dreams)

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activation synthesis hypothesis

34
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What sleep hypothesis do Allan Hobson and Robert McCarley believe?

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activation synthesis hypothesis

35
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William Domhoof’s proposal that dreams reflect everyday thoughts and emotions

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neurocognitive dream theory

36
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  • Nobel Peace Prize Winner
  • Spent years studying chemical transmission of nerve impulses
  • Spent 3 nights in a row dreaming of an experiment
  • ”If the experiment occurred to me while awake, it would have been rejected”
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Allen Hobson

37
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About how many Americans suffer from insomnia?

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40 million

38
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How many Americans have problems with sleep?

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20 million

39
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How much time must pass with sleeping problems to be diagnosed with chronic insomnia?

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3 weeks

40
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Remove pressures of going to sleep, stay awake for as long as possible.

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Paradoxical intention (a way to fight insomnia)

41
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Starchy foods produce ________

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tryptophan

42
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How are tryptophan and serotonin correlated?

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tryptophan increases serotonin

43
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What stage/kind of sleep do night terrors occur?

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Stage 4, NREM

44
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How long do night terrors usually last?

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15-20 minutes

45
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How to get rid of nightmares

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  • write down nightmare in detail
  • change dream in anyway
  • imagery rehearsal
46
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How long does sleep apnea usually last?

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20 seconds - 2 minutes

47
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Sleep apnea

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breathing stops during sleep

48
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Blockage of upper air passages during sleep

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Obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome

49
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SIDS babies tend to have weak ________

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arousal reflex

50
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What is the leading cause of death in infants 1 month - 1 year of age?

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SIDS

51
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Person falls asleep during alert, daytime activities

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Narcolepsy

52
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What is a common trigger for narcolepsy?

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Emotional excitement/laughing

53
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Professional term for sleep paralysis

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Hypnotic Hallucinations

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