Question 1

What is non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep?

Accepted Answer

A period of dreamless sleep

(seperated into four stages)

Question 2

What is rapid eye movement (REM) sleep?

Accepted Answer

Period of sleep where dreams most often occur

Question 3

What are hypnagogic hallucinations?

Accepted Answer

Sensory phenomena (visions and sounds) that a sleeper percieves when transitioning between being awake and being asleep

Question 4

What are sleep spindles?

Accepted Answer

Bursts of neural activity during sleep

(theorized to be important for forming memories)

Question 5

What is slow wave sleep?

Accepted Answer

Stages 3 and 4 of NREM sleep where brain activity is the lowest

Question 6

What is paradoxical sleep?

Accepted Answer

Another name for REM sleep, where the brain is active yet the body is at rest

Question 7

What is latent content?

Accepted Answer

Unconscious desires underlying the manifest content in dreams

(part of Freud's work)

Question 8

What are night terrors?

Accepted Answer

A sleep disorder that causes fear and screaming while asleep

Question 9

What is insomnia?

Accepted Answer

A sleep disorder that makes it hard to fall asleep

Question 10

What is sleep apnea?

Accepted Answer

A sleep disorder, where breathing starts and stops during sleep

Question 11

What is narcolepsy?

Accepted Answer

A sleep disorder with irregular sleep patterns

(inability to control sleep and wakefulness)

Question 12

What is somnambulism?

Accepted Answer

A sleep disorder where individuals walk during their sleep

(commonly: "sleep walking"; som = dream, ambulism = walking)

Sleep, AP Psychology Flashcards