Exam 5: Body Rhythms and Mental States

During his lecture on dream theories, Professor Hundt points out that a weakness of the __________ approach to dreaming is that no reliable rules exist for interpreting the supposedly latent content of dreams and there is no objective way of determining whether an interpretation is correct.

In his dream, Andy is an infant crawling through a dark tunnel looking for something he has lost. Which theory would be most receptive to an explanation that, while Andy was sleeping, neurons in his pons that stimulate leg-muscle movement were active?

Research on premenstrual syndrome indicates that _______________ of women have PMS symptoms, such as irritability and depression, predictably over their cycles.

The word "circadian" indicates that a circadian rhythm:

The _______________ theory of dreaming has no convincing empirical support.

Your cousin Brenda says she is suffering several symptoms and claims they are due to premenstrual syndrome (PMS). Which of the following symptoms that she cites is the most questionably linked to the menstrual cycle?

The body's biological clock, the suprachiasmatic nucleus, is located in the:

When Larry was a teenager, he began experiencing periods when he had a lot of trouble staying awake during the day, even though he was getting enough sleep each night. He also would experience sudden "attacks" where he would collapse to the floor in the middle of an activity. Larry suffers from:

Outline the two prominent explanations of hypnosis.

Which of the following statements is true of marijuana?

List and briefly describe the four major categories of psychoactive drugs.

REM sleep has been called "paradoxical sleep" because:

Which of the following statements is accurate according to studies of internal desynchronization?

Hypnosis can be useful in the treatment of psychological and medical problems. List three of these uses.

On average, REM sleep periods last about _______________.

The activation-synthesis theory of dreaming states that:

What effect do depressants have on the body?

The structure that serves as our biological clock and controls our circadian rhythms is _______________.

The ______________ dream theory states that the purpose of dreaming is to express ongoing concerns of waking life.

What is one of the weaknesses of the psychoanalytic theory of dreaming?