The Role and Function of Sleep: From Memory Consolidation to Dream Interpretation, Quizzes of Psychology

Download The Role and Function of Sleep: From Memory Consolidation to Dream Interpretation and more Quizzes Psychology in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Sleep protects DEFINITION 1 sleeping in darkness kept out of harm in past adaptive function TERM 2 sleep helps recover DEFINITION 2 sleep helps restore and repair brain tissue, recover from rigors of the day TERM 3 sleep helps remember DEFINITION 3 restores and rebuilds fading memories, sleep related memory consolidation evidence TERM 4 sleep play role in growth process DEFINITION 4 pituitary gland releases growth hormone, older people release less and sleep less TERM 5 dreams DEFINITION 5 average person = 600 hours per year, 1,500 dreams. 80% with one negative event, attacked, pursued, rejected, incorporate previous days TERM 6 freud wish fulfillment DEFINITION 6 psychoanalytic, we express unacceptable feelings, fulfill forbidden wishes TERM 7 freud DEFINITION 7 dreams symbolic, latent content = uncovers forbidden wishes and desires, phallic symbol TERM 8 information processing DEFINITION 8 dreams play a role in filing away memories. Hippocampal place cells that fire as rat learns a maze also fire during REM sleep TERM 9 physiological function DEFINITION 9 brain activity during REM sleep provides brain with periodic stimulation, especially in infants, help establish neural pathways. Infants spend most sleep in REM TERM 10 activation synthesis DEFINITION 10 dreaming is only brain attempt to make sense of random neural activity that spreads upward through brain from brainstem