Exam 5: Body Rhythms and Mental States

Judith is startled when her six-year-old daughter,Laura,sleepwalks into the family room and begins to talk.It is most likely that Laura is experiencing the ________ stage of the sleep cycle.

Jill claims that she has learned to become aware of her dreams and to control their direction.It is most likely that Jill is experiencing:

Which of the following is NOT a proposed explanation of dreams?

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

Melatonin,a hormone involved in the regulation of circadian rhythms,is secreted by the pineal gland.

During ________ dreams,people are aware that they are dreaming and feel as though they are conscious.

The activation-synthesis theory proposes that:

Internal desynchronization is a controversial disorder in which a person experiences depression during the winter and an improvement of mood in the spring.

PMS and SAD are related in that:

Cocaine blocks the brain's reuptake of dopamine and norepinephrine.

The dreams of males and females differ because:

Melatonin is a hormone:

Sigmund Freud would agree with all of the following EXCEPT:

Delta waves are characteristic of:

Sigmund Freud would agree that the key to analyzing a dream will be found in the manifest content.

When people live in an environment free of any time cues and are allowed to sleep,eat,and work whenever they want,they typically follow a:

________,a hormone involved in the regulation of circadian rhythms,is secreted by the pineal gland.

An EEG is recording Joe's brain while he sleeps.The pattern of brain waves exhibits occasional short bursts of rapid,high-peaking waves,and he isn't disturbed by some of the noise the experimenter in the sleep lab makes during this time.

Among the common effects of caffeine are:

In a study of mood changes in men and women,researchers found that no relation exists between stage of the menstrual cycle and emotional symptoms.