Have an account?
Skip to Content
Build your own quiz
14 questions
Show Answers
See Preview
- 1. Multiple Choice
What level of consciousness is it when the person relies on 'stored knowledge and memories'
REM
Unconscious
Subconscious / Preconscious
Conscious
- 2. Multiple Choice
Which stage is the dream stage of sleep
Stage 3
NREM
Nightmares
REM
- 3. Multiple Choice
When do we reach our deepest level of sleep
Within the first hour
After the first 90 minutes
Every 90 minutes
After the first 30 minutes
- 4. Multiple Choice
How long between REM stages
Within the first hour
Within the first 120 minutes
Approximately every 90 minutes
After the first 30 minutes
- 5. Multiple Choice
As the night goes along, our dreams get:
shorter and more active
longer and less active
shorter and less active
longer and more active
- 6. Multiple Choice
Why is it that sometimes we can remember our dreams vividly, while other times we don't think we dream at all
sometimes we dream vividly while other times we are so sleepy that we don't dream at all; conserving energy
It is relative to the how much time has passed between your last dream and the time you wake up
Some people can remember their dreams because the dream content is 'personal' and important to them
Dream recall depends upon the individual; some people just don't remember dreams because of injury or disease
- 7. Multiple Choice
At which stage does sleepwalking, talking in your sleep, and bed-wetting occur
NREM
REM
Stage 2
Stage 3
- 8. Multiple Choice
What is the 'mental activity that takes place during sleep
Talking in your sleep
Dreaming
REM
Sleepwalking
- 9. Multiple Choice
Our first dreams are usually about what content?
exciting things that we wish we could do but know we can't
boring, mundane things, such as sitting or laying in bed
nightmares and scary dreams that frighten us but not enough to awaken
there are no dreams in the first stage of REM
- 10. Multiple Choice
When does NREM occur?
anytime outside of REM
just before our last REM cycle of the evening
in stages 1 and 2
in the few moments before we go into a REM cycle
- 11. Multiple Choice
Explain why a 'night terror' is more frightening than 'nightmare'
A nightmare does not affect the individual while they are asleep
Because it happens in REM and our bodies are not prepared for it
Because a night terror feels like it could really happen
It happens in NREM, we are not prepared for it and thus we think it is real
- 12. Multiple Choice
Which level of consciousness is responsible for our urges and immoral desires & drives, selfishness, and bad things?
unconscious
subconscious
conscious
all of them
- 13. Multiple Choice
Explain why our last dream of the night is the most active, or real
because we can act it out and thus if feels real
it is the longest dream and our brain waves are similar to being awake
it is because it happens in NREM and we don't think it is a dream
because the brain knows that all the other dreams are just dreams but the last dream confuses the human mind as to whether it is real or not
- 14. Multiple Choice
What happens right before REM and why does it happen?
the body will go into its' deepest sleep of the night so we can sleepwalk and sleep-talk.
our brain waves begin to slow and our bodies are totally relaxed
our brain waves slow down, our heart rate slows, and our body temperature drops so we cannot act out our dreams and get restful sleep
our brain waves become active and the body will partially paralyze itself in order to protect it from acting out the dream
- Answer choicesTagsAnswer choicesTags