Dreams and Sleep Problems Ch 5 Sec 2

What do we call the pattern of changes in brainwaves while we sleep?

• The encephalograph cycle
• The circadian cycle
• The sleep cycle
• Dreams

What do we call the sequence of bodily changes including sleepiness and wakefulness that usually occurs every 24 hours?

• The encephalograph cycle
• The circadian rhythm
• The sleep cycle
• Dreams

What type of sleep is characterized by irregular breathing, a rise in blood pressure, brain waves are similar to light sleep in which scientists believe is very important to learning and memory?

• NREM-1
• NREM-2
• REM
• NREM-3
• NREM-4

What does REM mean?

• Rapid Eye Movement
• Relapse Episodic Memory
• Reference Elevated Motion
• Release Entered Motivation

In which stage of sleep do we have the most vivid dreams?

• NREM-1
• NREM-2
• REM
• NREM-3
• NREM-4

Dreams are always in color but do not always feel real.

• True
• False

Who believed that most people dreamt about unconscious desires and that most often the desires that showed up in dreams were painful or unacceptable wishes?

• John Watson
• Robert Louis Stevenson
• Sigmund Freud
• William James

Freud believed people dreamt in _________ as a way to process painful or unacceptable material.

• real time
• symbols
• color
• black and white

How does the Biopsychological Approach explain the events of dreams?

• That the mind is trying to work out deep conflicts while asleep.
• That the brain is trying to figure out what the events of the day meant to the future.
• That the brain is weaving together a story to explain the random firing of neurons in the part of the brain that controls movement and vision.
• That the brain is using symbols to interpret messages from ghosts.

Which of the following is the reason we dream?

• Some of these, all of these, maybe other reasons
• To fulfill our wishes.
• We dream to forget.
• To create long term memories by consolidating data.
• Dreams are a screensaver to keep the brain from fully shutting down during sleep.