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Study Guide: Section on eating from Chapter 12 "Motivation,"
Chapter 5 "Body Rhythms & Mental States," and related classes
Facts and concepts to understand
- Role of hypothalamus in eating, hunger, weight
- What happens to metabolism when people restrict their food intake?
- Effectiveness of dieting for losing weight? What happens when dieters
slip up? Effectiveness of exercise?
- Role of genetics in weight and body type
- Culture and weight, culture and attitudes toward weight
- Reasons for eating disorders
- Biological rhythms / biological "clock"
- Seasonal changes in normal individuals
- Length of the "brain's day" vs. the 24 hour day
- Reasons for jet lag
- Effect of biological rhythms on shift workers
- Reticular activating system (RAS), pons-- role in sleep and dreaming
What causes the RAS to make you stay awake? What makes you wake up,
stay awake?
- Theories about why we need to sleep and evidence for those theories
- Effects of sleep deprivation
- How are the stages of sleep studied by psychologists?
- Stages of sleep (Stages 1-4 & REM)
- characteristics, including brain activity
- lengths of stages
- cycle througout the night
- changes in the cycle over the course of a night
- During what stages of sleep do each of the following occur:
light sleep, deep sleep, quiet sleep, sleep walking, sleep talking,
bed wetting, sudden jerking of limbs, rapid eye movement, dreams,
genital arousal, slower breathing, nocturnal violence, easy awakening,
difficult awakening, faster heart rate & breathing, increased blood
pressure
- How can genital arousal during sleep be used to diagnose the cause
of
impotence?
- When and during what stage is a heart attack most likely to occur?
why?
- Age differences in sleep
- What kinds of animals have REM sleep?
- Why do people frequently dream about being frozen or unable to act?
- Why do some people say they don't dream?
- Effects of alcohol on REM
- Age differences in REM
- When does a fetus begin to show REM?
- Theories about why we need to dream & supporting evidence (if
any) for each
- Current concerns, processing daily and/or stressful events
- Mental housekeeping, memory consolidation
- Activation-synthesis
- Unconscious wish fulfillment
- What do people commonly dream about? why?
- Which theory(s) explains why dreams are often negative?
- Which theory(s) explains why dreams are often strange?
- Dreaming and coping with traumatic events
- How did Freud interpret Dora's dream?
- Universal dream symbols and their validity
- How to get a good night's sleep
Terms
- hypothalamus
- reticular activating system (RAS)
- set point
- metabolic rate
- sleep apnea
- REM sleep
- rebound REM
- manifest content
- latent content
- phallic symbol
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