Sleep review

What is melatonin?

• A hormone related to skin tone and eye color

• Something that your body stops making when you have jet lag

• A hormone related to sleep and drowsiness

• None of the above

The pattern of physical and behavioral changes that follows a 24 hour cycle, in accordance with the hours of light and darkness.

• REM

• Sleep debt

• circadian rhythm

• ample sleep

The average sleep cycle is about ______ minutes

• 100
• 90
• 60
• 30

Dreams are the brain dealing with stress and events of a given day could be a statement from someone who believes which theory?

• information-processing theory
• activation-synthesis theory
• Freud's dream theory
• dissociation theory

The dreams we remember come during which sleep stage?

• stage 1 NREM
• stage 2 NREM
• stage 3 NREM
• REM

Your awareness of everything that is going on around you and inside your own head at any given movement, which you use to organize your behavior.

• Consciousness

• Circadian Rhythm

• Insomnia

• Hypnosis

A machine that allows scientists to record the brain-wave activity as a person passes through the various stages of sleep and to determine what type of sleep the person has entered.

• Electroencephalography (EEG)

• Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Scan

• Computed Tomography (CT or CAT) Scan

• Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Which of the following is not a brain-wave pattern during sleep?

• Gamma Waves

• Beta Waves

• Alpha Waves

• Theta Waves

The inability to get to sleep, stay asleep, or get a good quality of sleep.

• Insomnia

• Sleep Apnea

• Narcolepsy

• Microsleep

A kind of “sleep seizure” in which the person may slip suddenly into REM sleep during the day, especially when the person experiences strong emotions. Another symptom is excessive daytime sleepiness that results in the person falling asleep throughout the day at inappropriate times and in inappropriate places.

• Narcolepsy

• Sleep Apnea

• Insomnia

• Hypnosis