Module 24: Sleep Deprivation, Sleep Disorders, and Dreams

Question 1

What are the recurring problems in falling or staying asleep?

Answer 1

Insomnia

Question 2

What is the sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks? The sufferer may lapse directly into REM sleep, often at inopportune times.

Answer 2

Narcolepsy

Question 3

What is the sleep disorder characterized by temporary cessations of breathing during sleep and repeated momentary awakenings? (associated with obesity, especially in men)

Answer 3

Sleep apnea

Question 4

What is the sleep disorder characterized by high arousal and an appearance of being terrified; unlike nightmares, night terrors occur during NREM-3 sleep, within two or three hours of falling asleep, and seldom remembers?

Answer 4

Night terrors

Question 5

What is a sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping person’s mind? They are notable for their hallucinatory imagery, discontinuities, and incongruities, and for the dreamer’s delusional acceptance of the content and later difficulties remembering it.

Answer 5

dream

Question 6

According to Freud, what is the remembered storyline of a dream?

Answer 6

Manifest content

Question 7

According to Freud, what is the underlying meaning of a dream?

Answer 7

Latent content

Question 8

What is the tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation?

Answer 8

REM rebound