Sleep Flashcards
Insomnia
Difficulty sleeping
Narcolepsy
Overpowering urge to fall asleep
Sleep apnea
Failure to breathe when sleep
Night terror
Sudden arousal from sleep and intense fear
Sleep walking (somnambulism)
Blank stare
REM behavior disorder (rbd)
Muscles are not paralyzed in REM as they should be allowing a person to act out their dreams (vivid, violent, intense dreams)
Manifest content
(Remember story line) is a censored version of dreams
Latent content
Underlying meaning of dream
Information processing
Dreams may help sift, sort, and fix days experience in our memories
a cognitive theory that focuses on how information is encoded into our memory.
Physiological function
Providing oxygen and nutrients
Activation synthesis theory
dreams are just the brain’s efforts to make sense out of meaningless patterns of firing in the brain as we sleep.
Dreams that don’t actually mean nothing
Cognitive development
the development of the ability to think and reason
