Unit 2: Part 2B: Sleep Deprivation, Sleep Disorders, and Dreams

Question 1

Insomnia

Answer 1

Recurring problems in falling or staying asleep

Question 2

Narcolepsy

Answer 2

A sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks. The sufferer may lapse directly into REM sleep, often at I opportune times

Question 3

Sleep Apnea

Answer 3

A sleep disorder characterized by temporary cessations of breathing during sleep and repeated momentary awakenings

Question 4

Night Terrors

Answer 4

A sleep disorder characterized by high arousal by and an appearance of being terrified; occur during NREM-3 sleep, within two or three hours of falling asleep, and are seldom remembered

Question 5

Dream

Answer 5

Sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping person’s mind. Notable for hallucinatory imagery, discontinuities, and incongruities, and for the dreamer’s delusional acceptance of the content and later difficulties remembering it

Question 6

Manifest Content

Answer 6

According to Freud, the remembered story line of a dream

Question 7

Latent Content

Answer 7

According to Freud, the underlying meaning of a dream

Question 8

REM Rebound

Answer 8

The tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation (created by repeated awakenings during REM sleep)

Question 9

Sleepwalking/talking

Answer 9

runs in families, younger children because they have longer stage 3 sleep, decreases over time

Question 10

The Interpretation of Dreams

Answer 10

Sigmund Freud

Question 11

The information-processing perspective

Answer 11

proposed that dreams may help sift, sort and fix day’s experiences in our memory

Question 12

activation-synthesis theory

Answer 12

a theory of dreaming; this theory proposes that the brain tries to make sense of random brain activity that occurs during sleep by synthesizing the activity with stored memories
has to do with neuron activity that activates the brainstem during sleep