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1
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Define sleep cycle.

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A nightly pattern of deep sleep, like sleep and dreaming

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What is REM sleep?

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Rapid eye movement, caused by eyes, moving a lot behind the eyelids, often while dreaming

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What is NREM sleep?

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Non-rapid eye movement sleep (make up the four stages of sleep)

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What are the four NREM stages of sleep?

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  1. Sleep onset
  2. Late night stage
  3. Pre-deep sleep
  4. Deep sleep
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Define ‘sleep onset’.

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-Period between wakefulness and sleep
- Light sleep-can be woken easily
- Muscles less active
- Alpha waves (resting waves)

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Define ‘late night stage’.

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  • Eye movement stops
  • Body temp starts to drop
  • Heart rate slows
  • Mainly theta brain waves and spindles (helps us rest)
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Define ‘pre-deep sleep’.

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  • Slow delta waves
  • Hard to be woken up
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Define ‘deep sleep’

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  • Slow delta waves
  • Hard to be woken up (if you get woken, you feel disorientated)
  • No eye movement
  • Sleep walking/night terrors in this stage
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What stage does sleep walking/night terrors occur?

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Deep sleep

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What is sensory blockade?

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Sight, sound, touch, taste and smell is blocked

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What is movement inhibition?

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Happens in REM sleep. Movement is prevented. Also known as sleep paralysis.

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What is the average amount of sleep needed for adults and children/ teenagers?

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Adults - 7 hours
Children/teenagers - 9 hours

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What is the main function of sleep?

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Survival

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What is sleep deprivation?

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Not having enough sleep. This can affect physical functioning such as weight and brain functioning.

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What are the effects of sleep deprivation?

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  • Cognition (thinking)
  • Day-to-day activities like work or driving
  • weak immune system
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Define ‘circadian rhythm’.

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Human body rhythms that have a daily (24 hour) cycle such as the sleep/wake cycle

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What is a bodily rhythm?

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A biological (internal) rhythm that can happen daily, monthly or annually

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What is the sleep/wake cycle?

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A daily cycle of biological activity based on a 24 hour period (circadian rhythms) that is influenced by day and night

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De if ‘ultradian rhythm’.

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A biological rhythm, which is shorter than a day - such as stages of sleep

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Define ‘hormones’.

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Sleep helps to reset hormones and what we do in our day affects our hormone levels

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What are the internal influences on sleep?

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  • hormones
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What are the names of the hormones which affect sleep?

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  • Adrenocorticotropic (ACTH) hormone
  • Melatonin hormone
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What is melatonin?

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A hormone that signals the need for sleep

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What triggers melatonin?

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Darkness

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25
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What is the pineal gland?

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Small gland that is located near the centre of the brain which creates melatonin so as part of the sleep/wake cycle

26
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What is adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)

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-A hormone released during stress
- There is more ACTH in someone with insomnia

27
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What is the suprachiasmatic nuclei?

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Produces melatonin, which triggers the need for sleep.

28
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Give three examples of external influences on sleep.

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  • Light
  • Food
  • Stress (environmental)
29
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Define ‘zeitgeibers’.

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External cues that regulate the body circadian rhythm

30
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What is entrainment?

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When biological rhythms are matched, environmental triggers. For example, circadian rhythms, being set by external cues like light.

31
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Who did the cave study?

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Siffre

32
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Name two sleep disorders.

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  • Insomnia
  • Narcolepsy
33
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What is a primary sleep disorder?

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The disorder is the problem e.g insomnia

34
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What is a secondary sleep disorder?

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The problems with the sleep are symptoms of another disorder e.g depression

35
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How many people are affected by insomnia?

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1 in 3

36
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What is insomnia?

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Problems with sleeping at night

37
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What is acute insomnia?

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Brief periods of problems with sleep

38
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Symptoms on insomnia.

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  • Difficulty falling asleep
  • Laying awake at night
  • Waking up though out the night
  • Not feeling refreshed on waking
  • Unable to concentrate
39
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What is chronic insomnia?

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When difficulty with sleep, occurs three or more nights a week, lasting at least three months. This type may need treatment.

40
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What is narcolepsy?

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A disorder where person has no control over their sleep-wake cycle

41
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How many people are affected by narcolepsy?

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1 in 2000

42
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Symptoms of narcolepsy.

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  • Excessive daytime sleeping
  • Hallucinations and vivid dreams
  • Loss of muscle power and tone (cataplexy)
  • Sleep paralysis and abnormal REM
43
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Some causes of narcolepsy.

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Hypocretin, genes , stress and evolution

44
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What is Freud’s theory of dreaming?

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According to Freud, dreams involve symbols that mean something to the dream and need to be analysed by professional to uncover the meaning

45
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What is the conscious mind?

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What we are aware of

46
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What is the pre-conscious mind?

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What we make ourselves aware of with some thinking

47
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What is the unconscious mind?

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Inaccessible parts of our mind that affect our behaviour and feelings (90% of our thinking)

48
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What is repression?

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Bury our unacceptable, thoughts, wishes, and desires into unconscious mind. This supports the balance of the ego

49
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Define ‘Id’.

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The part of the personality that is demanding, thoughts such as ‘I want..’. Unconscious wishes and desires are held here

50
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Define ‘super ego’.

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The part of the personality, that is the conscience, thoughts such as ‘you can’t have that’

51
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Define ‘ego’.

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The part of the personality that is the reasoning, and makes decisions to balance the Id and superego’s demands

52
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Define ‘manifest content’.

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The part of the dream that the person tells. It is the content = the things you see in dreams

53
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Define ‘latent content’.

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The real meaning of the dream, hidden behind the manifest part. It is the latent content that uncovers unconscious thinking and this is what psychoanalysts analyse

54
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Define ‘dreamwork’.

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The way the mind keeps unconscious thoughts hidden during dreaming. This is to protect the individual

55
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What is condensation?

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Many ideas appear as one in a dream, so the idea needs unpicking

56
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What is displacement?

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In a dream, something unimportant seems to be important, shifting attention away from the important thing

57
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What is secondary elaboration?

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Using would like to use to build a whole story. The mind will add bits to the dream in order for it to make sense. Just get in the way of understanding the latent content

58
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Who conducted the little hans theory?

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Freud

59
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Who created the activation synthesis theory of dreaming?

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Hobson and McCarley

60
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Define ‘activation’.

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Random thoughts in the brain when in REM sleep

61
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Define ‘synthesis’.

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Part of the brain that puts together, the random thought of the dream

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