Chapter 3 Terminology

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Across
  1. 2. this theory of dreaming, proposed by Sigmund Freud, suggests that dreams represent unconscious wishes, desires, and conflicts.
  2. 11. focusing of awareness on a specific aspect of one's experience
  3. 12. a stage of sleep in which consciousness begins to decline, but the person may still respond to stimuli and can be easily awakened
  4. 13. to Sigmund Freud this is the actual remembered content of a dream
  5. 14. the stage of sleep in which sleep spindles, brief bursts of rapid brain activity, occur
  6. 15. large, slow brain waves that indicate a person is in a deep sleep
  7. 16. also called deep sleep, this is a stage of sleep in which a person is difficult to awaken
  8. 17. the hidden or underlying meaning of a dream
Down
  1. 1. a stage of sleep in which the eyes dart back and forth underneath the eyelids, brain activity is high, and a person is likely to dream
  2. 3. this theory of dreaming argues that dreams help to sift, sort, and store daily experiences into memory
  3. 4. sensations of floating or falling that occur during N1 sleep
  4. 5. awareness of ourselves and the environment around us
  5. 6. failure to notice changes in the environment because our attention is directed elsewhere
  6. 7. blindness failure to see visible objects because our attention is directed elsewhere
  7. 8. a condition in which a person can respond to a visual stimulus without being consciously aware of the stimulus
  8. 9. the simultaneous processing of stimuli at multiple levels
  9. 10. this theory of dreaming posits that dreams are a result of the brain’s attempt to make sense of random brain activity that occurs while we sleep