Exam 5: States of Conciousness

Kevin suffers from sleep apnea. With this condition, he reawakens as often as 500 times during the night due to

Moesha is always tired. She falls into bed about 10:30 every evening and is asleep in seconds, but she wakes up frequently throughout the night. She is most likely suffering from

Due to drug use, Juan sometimes displays higher than his usual levels of awareness while Terri sometimes displays lower than her usual levels of awareness. These conditions are best referred to as

A class project required a student nurse to make hourly records of her own blood pressure and body temperature over a 30-day period. When the data were graphed, it became clear that these readings changed in a predictable way on a daily basis. The reason for this regularity is that many physiological processes are

Your friend Kevin was diagnosed with sleep apnea. This is the sleep disorder wherein individuals have a hard time falling asleep.

Mr. Owens always sleeps restlessly, snoring and gasping during the night. It is most likely that Mr. Owens suffers from

Jake vividly remembered what scared him during sleep so he must have experienced a night terror.

Experiencing a hypnagogic reverie is unpleasant.

The 24 hour biological cycle that regulates our pattern of sleep is referred to as

Mrs. Goldman was a little startled when she realized that while driving home, she didn't really remember driving the last mile. For Mrs. Goldman, driving has probably become a(n)

Your young son insists he went to the amusement park yesterday when he did not. You tell him that he probably dreamed this just before he awoke. "How do you know if I was dreaming?" he demands. You tell him that when you came into his bedroom just before he woke up, his eyes were moving back and forth rapidly behind his closed eyelids. This means he was probably having a dream.

Narcolepsy is a disorder involving

A criticism of activation-synthesis theory is that

LSD acts primarily on

At first the subject had difficulty falling asleep in the sleep lab, but finally drifted into sleep and was not awakened when a student researcher knocked a can of soda off of the desk. The EEG is displaying a slow regular pattern with occasional sleep spindles. The researchers feel confident that the subject is

Hypnagogic reverie refers to the state of being completely hypnotized.

According to activation-synthesis theory, dreams

Thinking about thinking is referred to as

When given the chance, most adolescents will sleep an average of ________ hours per night.

Tranquilizers and alcohol belong to a drug category called