Exam 10: Stress, Health, and Coping: Dealing With Life

A client tells his therapist about a dream in which he drives his wife to the airport where she boards a plane. As the plane takes off, he is smiling. The therapist says the dream suggests a desire for a divorce. The therapist's interpretation represents what Sigmund Freud called the dream's __________.

List the main purposes of sleep as laid out by your authors.

According to Sigmund Freud, the important underlying meaning of our dreams is found in the ________.

In which of the following stages would one experience a hypnic jerk?

Pat is considering natural methods of altering consciousness that involve a mind-body interaction. Name three such methods.

The exhaustion phase can cause damage to the hippocampal cells which affect ________.

Which of the following result from sleep deprivation?

Hans Selye pioneered a model which describes the body's response to stress. Which of the following choices reflect the three phases of his model?

A total stranger makes a ridiculing comment within earshot of Eric, who has imbibed copious amounts of alcohol at the local tavern. Eric proceeds to start a fight with the stranger who is obviously much larger than Eric. Eric's behavior illustrates ________.

Caffeine is a _______________.

There are ________ stages of sleep.

You see an advertisement for a method of learning a foreign language that seems simple-just put on a tape and fall asleep. The accompanying description cites proof that people can learn while asleep. Being a good psychological detective, what question would you ask about the offered proof?

A student nurse looks at a patient's chart and does not understand the meaning of serious sleep apnea, so she asks the head nurse for assistance. How might the head nurse describe this condition?

Narcotics ________ the senses and provide ________.

Periods of REM sleep alternate with periods of non-REM sleep in a cycle that recurs about every ______________ minutes or so.

Writing about an upsetting experience often leads to ________.

According to Freud, dreams allow us to fulfill unconscious desires.

________ is a(n) ________-focused strategy where an individual turns to other activities to distract attention from the stressor.

Qimat must decide between two equally good choices for his weekend activity. He can either go fishing with his dad or go to an amusement park with his friends. This is an example of a(n)________ conflict.

Prior to the invention of the EEG, scientists believed that sleep constituted one single state.