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Intro Psych 1
TWU LeClere "Invitation to Psych" CH.5-7
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
10/19/2009

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Study on Randy Gardner
Definition
Went 11days (264 hours) w/o sleep.
* hallucinations
* speech & movement problems
* but the last night, beat researchers at arcade games
Term
List the Benefits of Sleep (4)
Definition
1. Restoration
2. Adaptation
3. Memory
4. Growth
Term
Define REM
Definition
Random Eye Movement
also includes muscle relaxation and dreams
Term
Describe the Stages of sleep (5)
Definition
1) small, irregular brainwaves (edge of consciousness
2) "sleep spindles" probably small noises won't wake you
3) emit Delta waves (slow, high peaks), muscles relaxed, hard to waken
4) Delta waves take over, deep sleep this is when sleep walking/talking happens
5)REM
Term
List the two types of Sleep apnea and how to treat it
Definition
Central: brain stops sending signals to diaphragm
Upper-airway: loss of muscle tone in throat, larynx, tongue
Treatment: CPAP, surgery to pull tongue away from throat
Term
Define Insomnia, list treatment
Definition
Chronic inability to fall or stay asleep at night
Treatment:narcotics, amphetamines, alcohol
Term
Define Narcolepsy, give some treatment
Definition
sleep disorder involving sudden and unpredictable daytime attacks of sleepiness or actual sleep
treatments: narcotics, alcohol
Term
Define Cataplexy
Definition
sudden and transient episode of loss of muscle tone, often triggered by emotions.
Term
Manifest content
Definition
the dream's surface content (dream symbols that distort and disguise the dream's true meaning)
Term
Latent Content
Definition
The dream's hidden content (unconscious meaning
Term
Wish fulfillment
Definition
the reason we dream: the unconscious attempt to fulfill needs we can't address when awake
Term
Sample symbols of manifest content (5)
Definition
1. alarm clock: neural stimulus effecting a dream
2. falling: giving in to sexual desire
3. flying: pleasant feeling
4. hats: genitalia
5. Structures: repressed sexual undertone
Term
Define action synthesis theory
Definition
dreams are fabricated by cortex to translate signals from pons
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Define cognitive theory of dreaming
Definition
dreams are similar to stuff we experience while awake
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