Psych 100: Ch 10.2

Question 0

Jet Lag

Answer 0

A period of discomfort and inefficiency while your internal clock is out of phase with your new surroundings

Question 1

Circadian Rhythm

Answer 1

A rhythm of activity and inactivity lasting about a day

Question 2

Rapid Eye Movement (REM) Sleep

Answer 2

Paradoxical sleep - During this stage of sleep, the sleeper’s eyes move rapidly back and forth under the closed lids

Question 3

Electroencephalograph (EEG)

Answer 3

Measures and amplifies tiny electrical changes on the scalp that reflect patterns of brain activity

Question 4

Polysomnograph

Answer 4

Researchers combine an EEG measure with a simultaneous measure if eye movements the produce this (literally, “many-sleep measure”)

Question 5

Sleep Spindles

Answer 5

Waves of activity at about 12-14 per second

Question 6

Insomnia

Answer 6

Not enough sleep for the person to feel rested the next day

Question 7

Sleep Apnea

Answer 7

Fail to breathe for a minute or more and then wake up gasping for breath

Question 8

Narcolepsy

Answer 8

Sudden attacks of sleepiness during the day

Question 9

Lucid Dreaming

Answer 9

Being aware that you are dreaming

Question 10

Periodic Limb Movement Disorder

or restless leg syndrome

Answer 10

“Creepy-crawly sensations in the legs, accompanies by repetitive leg movements string enough to awaken the person, especially during the first half of the night

Question 11

Night Terror

Answer 11

Causes someone to awaken screaming and sweating with a racing heart rate, sometimes flailing with the arms

Question 12

Manifest Content

Answer 12

The content that appears on the surface

Question 13

Latent Content

Answer 13

The hidden ideas that the dream experience represents symbolically

Question 14

Activation-Synthesis Theory of Dreams

Answer 14

Dreams occur because the cortex takes the haphazard activity that occurs during REM sleep plus whatever stimuli strike the sense organs and does its best the make sense of this activity