Sleep Psychology

The period of the sleep cycle when most dreaming occurs is

• Stage 1
• Stage 3
• Stage 2
• REM

Approximately how long is each cycle of sleep during a full night’s sleep?

• 120 minutes
• 90 minutes
• 80 minutes
• 100 minutes

Your body’s natural time clock that tells you when to wake up and when to sleep.

• Insomnia
• Circadian rhythm
• Frontal Lobe
• Sleep apnea

REM stands for

• Rapid eye movement
• Rapid eye motion
• Rage eye movement
• Random eye movement

According to the text, including REM sleep, how many stages of sleep does a person go through each night?

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

The state of awareness that includes a person's feelings, sensations, ideas, and perceptions

• Night Terrors
• Sleepwalking
• Consciousness
• Narcolepsy

Stage IV sleep disorder that may cause you to wake up screaming or sweating.

• Night Terrors
• Sleepwalking
• Insomnia
• Giant clowns looking for birthday parties

Lack of sleep interferes with our health and ability to concentrate mainly because

• levels of necessary hormones decrease, affecting out immune system and brain

• we are conditioned to sleep in infancy

• dreaming is necessary to emotionally process significant events of the day

• a lack of sleep causing tirednesss

Your friend tells you her father is obese and snores loudly at night, which of the following sleep disorders might you discuss with your friend?

• sleep apnea

• enuresis

• narcolepsy

• bruxism

A lack of sleep interferes with our health and ability to concentrate mainly because

• we are conditioned to sleep in infancy

• dreaming is necessary to emotionally process significant events of the day

• a lack of sleep causes us to cycle through various stages of sleep

• levels of hormones decrease affecting our immune system and brain operations