Exam 7: Sleep and Dreams

Irresistible attacks of sleepiness that can occur without warning are symptoms of a sleep disorder called:

Professor Clark is lecturing and notices a student in the back of the room who appears to be daydreaming.Professor Clark startles the student by asking,"Excuse me.Can I be of service to you?" Given what we know about daydreaming,the student is most likely to say she was daydreaming about:

Sleepwalking and night terrors occur during:

Young David is being wheeled into the operating room for surgery and the preoperative drugs are having an effect.His eyes are open,but his perception of the world around him,the voices of the surgical team,and the faces of his relatives are very different than normal.At what point along the continuum of consciousness is David most likely to be?

Jayne wants a really creative name for her website on dreaming.What would be a good choice that is also consistent with the research on dreaming?

A woman has just had a baby and is allowed to have the newborn in the hospital room with her at night.On the third night,however,the nurses decide the woman needs her rest,since the baby has been waking up often in the night.If the baby woke its mother during each of her REM sleep periods,what would we expect on the night when the nurses looked after the baby and the mother was allowed to sleep through?

Whose brain is most likely to have alpha waves?

Insomnia is a sleep problem characterized by:

Which of the following is the most distracting while driving?

If you randomly pick 100 Icelanders,about how many of them would have SAD?

Consider this case study: Paul eats a light breakfast and is a night worker,but sometimes works in the afternoon.He often complains of being cold in the morning.Paul is most likely a(n):

Which of the following adverse effects may be caused by sleep deprivation?

Research suggests that people seldom dream about:

Before entering the first stage of sleep,you probably feel relaxed and drowsy as you lay in your bed.This is called the ____ stage.

What hormone is thought to play a role in circadian rhythms?

According to Freud,where do we place threatening wishes or desires?

"When I was a kid I used to wet my bed all the time.Now I think I must have been dreaming that I was going to the bathroom." Is this person's explanation correct?

Night terrors occur during ____ sleep,and nightmares occur during ____ sleep.

As we pass into the deepest stages of sleep,we may:

You are a psychology professor reviewing the outline of a student's paper on the mechanisms of falling asleep.As you read the outline,you notice that one of the steps is incorrect.Which one is it?