UCF PSY2012 - Chapter 4

When an individual consistently does not get enough sleep, which causes a decrease in alertness and mental efficiency

The invention of electric lights

Infants

Depression, obesity, etc., and the symptoms that come with those two health conditions.

A name for when individuals experience low levels of physical activity, and lower levels of sensory awareness.

When an individual is sleep deprived, and they have the ability to fall asleep much faster.

An evolutionary psychology standpoint

Sleep helps solidify memory, and thus aids in the learning of new topics and skills

Beta Waves

Rapid Eye Movement

The brain waves of being awake, or beta waves

non-REM or NREM, which consists of 3 stages

Stage 1

Stage 2

Stage 3

Dreaming, and muscle paralysis

When a person doesn’t get enough REM in their sleep cycle, they will have to make up for it during other periods of sleep. Much like sleep rebound.

That dreams could be used to analyze the unconscious

The actual dream itself

The meaning of the dream according to Freud.

Believed dreams accessed the the Collective Unconscious that all humans were able to access

Believed it was a theoretical repository of human knowledge

Believed that dreams were representative of our daily lives

Believed that dreams are the brains way of trying to interpret the waves while you are asleep

Lucid dreaming is when the person dreaming knows they are dreaming, and an actually control themselves and how the dream continues.

A sleep disorder characterized by a difficulty of getting to sleep, and being able to stay asleep more than 3 times a week for a month or longer.

A group of sleep disorders that are characterized by unwanted motor activity that disrupt sleep.

It is an uncontrolled movement of the body like walking, or sometimes driving a vehicle while in a slow wave sleep.

Stabbed his wife repeatedly during the night during a supposed sleepwalking incident. He was charged with man slaughter, and insists he didn’t intentionally kill his wife. He was reported by family and friends to have a great relationship with his wife.

When muscle paralysis does not occur which allows the body to move during REM which could harm themselves and others

Restless Leg Syndrome

When a sufferer is in REM and is overwhelmed by feelings of fear, and panic with a wish to escape the current environment

A parasomnia

Sleep Apnea

1. Obstructive Sleep Apnea

2. Central Sleep Apnea

Obstructive Sleep Apnea

When the signals to breathe from the brain are blocked, and the message does not get transmitted. Thus you dont breathe.

A Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Machine or a CPAP Machine

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome which is caused by infants who stop breathing when they sleep.

Narcolepsy

the DSM-5

A Physical Dependence

When an individual has an emotional response(s) to not having a substance

When the intial amount of a substance does not elecit the same level of pleasure, so you must take more of the substance to reach that same amount of pleasure as before.

Withdrawal

A depressant lowers the overall activity of the central nervous system, and has a “quieting” affect on the brain

Alcohol gives a sense of Euphoria, and with larger doses causes ones ability to regulate behavior and emotion, reaction speed, and ability to make fit decisions all decrease

A Depressant

Increases neural activity, and works as an agonist for dopamine making stimulants more likely to be addictive

Meth, Heroin, Amphetamines, etc.

Opioids

Methadone, many clinics that help opioid addicts are called Methadone Clinics

They cause abstract visual, and sometimes physical sensations

Medical Marijuana