Sleep and Dreaming

Question 1

What is physical repair?

Answer 1

Returning the body to a normal, healthy state

Question 2

What is emotional stability?

Answer 2

Feeling normal and psychologically healthy

Question 3

What is a healthy brain?

Answer 3

A brain that functions normally

Question 4

What is slow wave sleep?

Answer 4

A type of deep sleep where brain activity is slow

Question 5

What is REM sleep?

Answer 5

A stage at the end of the sleep cycle where sleepers eyes jerk and brain activity is high, leading to more dreaming in this stage than others

Question 6

What is NREM sleep?

Answer 6

The phase of sleep that is considered the quiet or restful phase. 1-3 stages

Question 7

What is the pineal gland?

Answer 7

An endocrine gland, found in the brain, which produces melatonin

Question 8

What is melatonin?

Answer 8

A hormone released in the brain that is responsible for regulating sleep

Question 9

What are exogenous zeitgebers?

Answer 9

Features of the environment that helps to manage bodily rhythms

Question 10

What are endogenous pacemakers?

Answer 10

Internal biological clocks that manage bodily rhythms

Question 11

What is sleep onset insomnia?

Answer 11

Problems falling asleep

Question 12

What is sleep maintenance insomnia?

Answer 12

Problems staying asleep

Question 13

What is repression?

Answer 13

The process of pushing unpleasant thoughts and experiences into the unconscious mind

Question 14

What is manifest content?

Answer 14

What is actually experienced in a dream in terms of visual, auditory and other information

Question 15

What is latent content?

Answer 15

The true meaning of a dream that is hidden in the manifest content

Question 16

What is psychoanalysis?

Answer 16

A type of therapy that attempts to resolve psychological problems by accessing unconscious and unresolved conflicts

Question 17

What is the activation synthesis theory?

Answer 17

An explanation of dreams that focuses on the random activation of neurons and the brains efforts to make sense of this through synthesis

Question 18

What is pons?

Answer 18

A part of the brain that operates as a message station

Question 19

What is the brainstem?

Answer 19

The central think of the brain that continues down to the spinal cord

Question 20

What is synthesis?

Answer 20

To make sense of and give meaning to dreams

Question 21

What is reductionism?

Answer 21

Viewing human behaviour from a simple perspective

Question 22

What is holism?

Answer 22

Holism recognises that importance of seeing people as individuals and that not one approach or theory can fully explain human behaviour

Question 23

What is fantasy?

Answer 23

Products of imagination when impossible or improbable occurances are imagines

Question 24

What is insomnia?

Answer 24

Inability to get to sleep or stay asleep

Question 25

What are relaxation techniques?

Answer 25

Strategies for making people feel more relaxed both physically and psychologically

Question 26

What is sleep hygiene?

Answer 26

Strategies that support a good nights sleep

Question 27

What is the sympathetic nervous system?

Answer 27

A division of the nervous system that controls the flight or fight response when faced with stress

Question 28

What is the parasympathetic nervous system?

Answer 28

A division of the nervous system that regulates organ and gland functions during rest, and counters the response of the sympathetic nervous system