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