Practice Test: Psych

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1. What is latent content?
   
2. What is the moment of sleep?
   
3. What is the cognitive theory?
   
4. What is sleep?
   
5. When do dreams occur
   

Multiple Choice skip

1. What is a dream?
   1. a sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing trhough a sleeping person's mind. Dreams are notable for their hallucinatory imagery, discontinuities, and incongruities, and for the dreamer's delusional accpentance of the content and later difficulties remembering it.
   2. IN REM sleep
   3. Brain emits large slow delta waves and are deep asleep. Last 30 min
   4. Every 90 min
   5. our awareness of ourselves and our enviornment
2. During sleep rapid eye movements allows for...?
   1. according to Frud, the underlying meaning of a dream.
   2. Every 90 min
   3. a sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing trhough a sleeping person's mind. Dreams are notable for their hallucinatory imagery, discontinuities, and incongruities, and for the dreamer's delusional accpentance of the content and later difficulties remembering it.
   4. liquid behind the cornea to stir; this delivers fresh oxygen to corneal cells, preventing them from suffocation.
   5. A sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks. The sufferer may laps directly into REM sleep, often at inopportune times.
3. What is the information-processing theory?
   1. When something changes around you and you do not notice because you are focused on another task.
   2. They are false sensory experiences such as seeing something in the absence of an external stimulus.
   3. A sleep disorder characterized by temporary cessations of breathing during sleep and repeated momentary awakenings.
   4. It is when light strikes the retina causing suprachiasmatic nucleus to alter the production of biologically active substances.
   5. Dreams help us sort out the day's events and consolidate our memories
4. How often does the sleep cycle repeat itself?
   1. heart rate rising, breathing becomes rapid and irregular, and every 30 seconds your eyes dart around inside your closed eyelids.
   2. Every 90 min
   3. a sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing trhough a sleeping person's mind. Dreams are notable for their hallucinatory imagery, discontinuities, and incongruities, and for the dreamer's delusional accpentance of the content and later difficulties remembering it.
   4. When something changes around you and you do not notice because you are focused on another task.
   5. Stage 3 is transitional and you begin to fall into a deep sleep, you are also in REM sleep.
5. What are the proposed explanations for why we dream?
   1. They are false sensory experiences such as seeing something in the absence of an external stimulus.
   2. IN REM sleep
   3. heart rate rising, breathing becomes rapid and irregular, and every 30 seconds your eyes dart around inside your closed eyelids.
   4. Dream content reflects dreamer's cognitive development-their knowledge and understanding
   5. To satisfy our own wishes, to file away memories, to develop and perserve neural pathways, to make sense of neural static, to reflect cognitive development.

True or False skip

1. What are night terrors?
   Sleep spindles bursts of rapid, rhythmic brain activity. Sleep talking can also occur. Also in REM sleep.

   True   False

2. What happens in stage 4?
   Brain emits large slow delta waves and are deep asleep. Last 30 min

   True   False

3. What are delta waves?
   paradoxical, natural, reversible loss of consciousness--as disinct from unconsciousness resulting from a coma, general aesthesia or hibernation.

   True   False

4. What are aspects of REM sleep?
   heart rate rising, breathing becomes rapid and irregular, and every 30 seconds your eyes dart around inside your closed eyelids.

   True   False

5. What happens in stage 3?
   They are false sensory experiences such as seeing something in the absence of an external stimulus.

   True   False