Consiousness (4b)

Question 1

Activation synthesis model of dreaming

Answer 1

During sleep, the brain has a lot of random activity via brain stem activity that activates the sensory systems of the cortex
- dreams reflect the brains efforts to make sense out of or find meaning in the neural activity that takes place during sleep

Question 2

Freudian dream theory

Answer 2

Dreams represent the expression of unconscious wishes or desires

Question 3

Nightmares

Answer 3

Dreams filled with intense anxiety

Question 4

Nightmare or dream disorder anxiety

Answer 4

Frequent or distressing nightmares

Question 5

Lucid dreams

Answer 5

The sleeper fully recognizes that he or she is dreaming and occasionally activity guides the outcomes of the dream

Question 6

Daydreams

Answer 6

Fantasies that occur while one is awake and aware of external reality but is not fully conscious

Question 7

Chronic sleep loss results in

Answer 7

• general depressed state
• lower immune system
• lower ability to concentrate
• higher incidence of accidents
• lower productivity and higher likelihood of making mistakes

Question 8

Insomnia

Answer 8

• most common sleep disorder
• difficulty going to sleep or staying asleep
• caused by stress
• more common in older people du to medical conditions, medications, and depression and anxity

Question 9

Sleep apnea

Answer 9

• second most common sleep disorder
• repeatedly stops breathing during the night leading to frequent awakenings
• possible to have hundreds attacks per night
• can lead to cardiac arrest

Question 10

Excessive daytime sleepiness

Answer 10

Chronically tried, even if slept well

Question 11

Narcolepsy

Answer 11

• uncontrollable urge to fall asleep
• suddenly fall into REM keep during the day
  -Can last up to 15 minutes
• genetic factors involved
• no cure

Question 12

Delayed sleep phase sydrome

Answer 12

Long delay in ability to fall asleep

Question 13

Advances sleep phase syndrome

Answer 13

Fall asleep between 6 PM and 9 PM and wake between 2 AM and 5 AM

Question 14

Restless leg syndrome

Answer 14

Strong urge to move legs before sleep

Question 15

Periodic limb movements of sleep

Answer 15

Strong urge to move legs during. Sleep

Question 16

Sleepwalking

Answer 16

Mostly occurs during the first three hours of sleep
- eventually returns to bed
- inherited

Question 17

Night terrors

Answer 17

Occurs in stages 3 and 4 of sleep
- child screams in panic; goes back to sleep immodestly and does not remember the event in the more
- resolves by adolescent
- may be genetic

Question 18

REM sleep behaviour diorder

Answer 18

• acting out the dream while in bed seleepig