PSU PSYCH 100 Crosby Exam 2. | Exam Revision Questions And
Correct Answers | Graded A+ | 2025 Update |
ALTERTED CONSCIOUSNESS - Answer -Shift in quality or pattern of mental activity (alcohol,
medication,
sleep,etc.)
CIRCADIAN RHYTHM - Answer -a cycle of bodily rhythm that occurs over a 24 hour period.
CONSCIOUNESS - Answer -a person's awareness of everything that is going on around him or
her at any
given moment - used to organize behavior.
INSOMNIA - Answer -inability to fall asleep, stay asleep, or get good quality sleep.
NARCOLEPSY - Answer -Person falls immediately into REM sleep during the day without
warning
• Cataplexy
o a loss of muscle tone
o emotional events can trigger cataplexy
♣ ex. surprise party, fear
NIGHTMARES - Answer -•Bad dreams arousing feelings of horror, helplessness, extreme sorrow,
etc.
•person typically wakes up from it in distress
•occur during REM sleep
NON-REM SLEEP - Answer -We can move our bodies
Stage 1:
• light sleep; hypnic jerk; hypnagogic
Stage 2:
• Temperature, breathing and heart rate decrease sleep spindles
Stage 3:
• growth hormones release; hard to wake up
, REM BEHAVIOR DISORDER - Answer -mechanism that typically blocks the movement of
voluntary
muscles fails, allowing the person to thrash around and get up and act out nightmares.
REM SLEEP - Answer -• eyes moving under eyelids
• increase in body function (e.g. heart beat)
• 90% of dreaming
SLEEP APNEA - Answer -• Person stops breathing for short periods during sleep
• Don't get REM sleep because cycle is always interrupted and resets.
• CPAP machine - constant flow of air to keep airway moving, can totally eliminate sleep apnea
• Sometimes associated with being obese (not always related)
SLEEPWALKING - Answer -occurs during deep (stage 3 of non-REM) sleep; moving around or
walking
around in one's sleep. Happens most frequently because of inadequate sleep.
NIGHT TERROR - Answer -•Attacks of extreme fear that the victim has while sound asleep
•appears to be awake, often crying sometimes yelling, but in reality they are not awake.
•occur most often during NON-REM sleep
ADAPTIVE THEORY - Answer -EVOLUTIONARY THEORY. says animals and humans both
evolved certain
sleep patterns to avoid predators sleep when predators are most active
RESTORATIVE THEORY - Answer -sleep is necessary to the physical health of the body
MEMORY CONSOLIDATION - Answer -o Sleep helps sort out what's important and what we
need to
consolidate into our memory and what are things that we can get rid of,
GROWTH - Answer -o link between sleep and being overweight
o People who do not get adequate sleep are at a greater risk to be obsese
FREUD'S PERSPECTIVE ON DREAMS - Answer -• believed that dreams were a place/time
where we could
express unconscious desires
• Dreams provide access to the unconscious (wish-fulfillment)
Correct Answers | Graded A+ | 2025 Update |
ALTERTED CONSCIOUSNESS - Answer -Shift in quality or pattern of mental activity (alcohol,
medication,
sleep,etc.)
CIRCADIAN RHYTHM - Answer -a cycle of bodily rhythm that occurs over a 24 hour period.
CONSCIOUNESS - Answer -a person's awareness of everything that is going on around him or
her at any
given moment - used to organize behavior.
INSOMNIA - Answer -inability to fall asleep, stay asleep, or get good quality sleep.
NARCOLEPSY - Answer -Person falls immediately into REM sleep during the day without
warning
• Cataplexy
o a loss of muscle tone
o emotional events can trigger cataplexy
♣ ex. surprise party, fear
NIGHTMARES - Answer -•Bad dreams arousing feelings of horror, helplessness, extreme sorrow,
etc.
•person typically wakes up from it in distress
•occur during REM sleep
NON-REM SLEEP - Answer -We can move our bodies
Stage 1:
• light sleep; hypnic jerk; hypnagogic
Stage 2:
• Temperature, breathing and heart rate decrease sleep spindles
Stage 3:
• growth hormones release; hard to wake up
, REM BEHAVIOR DISORDER - Answer -mechanism that typically blocks the movement of
voluntary
muscles fails, allowing the person to thrash around and get up and act out nightmares.
REM SLEEP - Answer -• eyes moving under eyelids
• increase in body function (e.g. heart beat)
• 90% of dreaming
SLEEP APNEA - Answer -• Person stops breathing for short periods during sleep
• Don't get REM sleep because cycle is always interrupted and resets.
• CPAP machine - constant flow of air to keep airway moving, can totally eliminate sleep apnea
• Sometimes associated with being obese (not always related)
SLEEPWALKING - Answer -occurs during deep (stage 3 of non-REM) sleep; moving around or
walking
around in one's sleep. Happens most frequently because of inadequate sleep.
NIGHT TERROR - Answer -•Attacks of extreme fear that the victim has while sound asleep
•appears to be awake, often crying sometimes yelling, but in reality they are not awake.
•occur most often during NON-REM sleep
ADAPTIVE THEORY - Answer -EVOLUTIONARY THEORY. says animals and humans both
evolved certain
sleep patterns to avoid predators sleep when predators are most active
RESTORATIVE THEORY - Answer -sleep is necessary to the physical health of the body
MEMORY CONSOLIDATION - Answer -o Sleep helps sort out what's important and what we
need to
consolidate into our memory and what are things that we can get rid of,
GROWTH - Answer -o link between sleep and being overweight
o People who do not get adequate sleep are at a greater risk to be obsese
FREUD'S PERSPECTIVE ON DREAMS - Answer -• believed that dreams were a place/time
where we could
express unconscious desires
• Dreams provide access to the unconscious (wish-fulfillment)
