1. Alcohol suppresses REM sleep. Thus, when you drink alcohol before going to sleep, you tend to get less REM sleep than is normal for you. Based on this finding and your understanding of the REM-rebound effect, what do you think is MOST likely to happen to alcoholics who quit drinking?
A. They will experience more episodes of sleepwalking.
B. They will experience fewer episodes of sleep terrors.
C. They will dream less but have more frequent nightmares.
D. They will spend more time in REM sleep for a number of nights.
2. Let's say that you are dreaming about eating a large dinner. Which of the following interpretations of your dream would be closest to what Sigmund Freud meant by wish fulfillment?
A. You are hungry and trying to satisfy your hunger through fantasy.
B. You need to activate your brain periodically throughout the night.
C. You are making plans for what you will do during the next day.
D. You are remembering experiences from the previous day.
3. Which of the following would be an example of a selective sleep-deprivation study?
A. Participants are awakened each time they fall asleep for three nights in a row.
B. Participants are awakened four hours after they fall asleep for three nights in a row.
C. Participants are awakened each time they enter SW sleep for three nights in a row.
D. none of the above
4. Which of the following is a claim made by Hobson and McCarley in their activation-synthesis theory?
A. We dream because increased brain activity during REM sleep causes sensory areas of the brain to become active.
B. Our brains need periodic activation during the night in order to develop and maintain connections between brain areas.
C. Dreaming occurs only during REM sleep.
D. all the above
5. What is the main problem for both the activation-synthesis and psychoanalytic theories of dreaming?
A. They both use selective-deprivation studies as evidence for their claims.
B. They both make use of evidence based on questionable dream interpretations.
C. They both include a number of claims that are not well supported by evidence.
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