Quiz 2 (lesson 14) Flashcards
What is REM sleep characterized by?
REM sleep is characterized by rapid eye movement, muscle atonia(not being able to move, temporary paralysis of your body) and often dreaming
What is muscle atonia?
not being able to move, temporary paralysis of your body
True or False: 75% of our sleep is NREM
True.
What are the ways to record dreams?
“Ask people what their dreams tend to be like(worst)
Ask people to keep a dream diary
Ask people every morning to report their dreams
Wake people during sleep at many points during the night and get reports(scientifically best way)”
What are dreams like?
“Scene shifts are common
Tend to be narrative
Tend to be experienced in “first-person”
Dream emotion tend to match content
They are always animated(not a slide show)
Dreams are rarely bizarre , but when they are we often don’t notice it until we are awake
Selection bias: bizarre dreams are easier to remember and are more often talked about”
What are dreams not like?
“Films, visual images, recent social situations and pre-sleep behavior are rarely incorporated into dreams.
Recent episodic memories, even salient(most noticeable or important) ones, are rarely incorporated into dreams
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True or False: Things happening in the world can influence your dreams
True(ex. Dreaming you need to urinate due to your actual need to urinate)
How can you affect what you dream about?
Pre sleep attention to a specific concern
What is the threat simulation theory?
Attempts to answer the question of why we dream. A major function of dreams is to practice dealing with threats that were common in our ancestral environment
True or false: We typically forget dreams
“True.
It’s probably good we don’t remember dreams since it allows us to practice things without remembering the repercussions.”
What are the three parts of the AIM Model of conscious states?
Activation, information flow and model of information processing
What is lucid dreaming?
“When you know you’re dreaming and can control your actions and sometimes other dream content
You can only control your eyes in the real world”
What is sleep paralysis?
“You feel awake
You might feel chest pressure
You can’t move
It’s a carry over of muscle atonia from sleep to waking(not being able to move)
You have hallucinations, often of the presence of a malevolent creature
You feel abject terror
Sleep paralysis is a universal constant but the nature of the creature changes based on the culture(one might see a demon while another culture sees aliens)
When people start believing in a type of alien that alien starts showing up in sleep paralysis”
“John has a dream about walking in a circle in the most boring room he can imagine. What stage of sleeping has John entered?
a) Pre-Phobia
b) NREM
c) Simple atonia
d) REM”
b
“Which of these dreams is least likely to happen?
a) you are having a normal conversation with your cousin
b) you are being chased by a bear in pyjamas, and then you are drowning
c) you are reading a cafe menu, you turn around, and when you look back and all the writing is different
d) you are replaying a casual conversation you had with your S.O. right before you went to bed”
d
