This is a model of dreaming proposed by Hobson and McCarley about dreaming. It is based on the idea that the brain is still active, but no information is coming through.
Activation Synthesis
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This cell passes messages in the brain.
Neuron
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A way of messages being passed, via crossing a synapse in the brain.
Chemical Transmission
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A stage of sleep that occurs about five times each night, wherein dreams take place.
Rapid Eye Movement
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Information generated within the brain is known as what?
Internally Generated
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During REM sleep, no information passes to the brain.
Sensory Blockade
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This is the term for when a neurotransmiter released by an impulse of one neuron crosses over and is taken up by the dendrites of another neuron.
Synaptic Transmission
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According to activation synthesis, this is one part of the two that causes dreams - when the neurons are active.
Random Activation
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An impulse down the axon.
Electrical Transmission
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Who were the two psychologists who came up with the Activation Synthesis model?
Hobson and McCarley
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This is the second part of the Activation Synthesis model, how dreams are created by the brain trying to make sense of the Random Activation of neurons.
Synthesis
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This is a chemical at the terminal button of a neuron, which is released by the impulse and then goes into the synaptic gap.
Neurotransmitter
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During REM sleep the body is paralysed.
Movement Inhibition
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What is the space between the dendrites of one neuron and the next called?
Synaptic Gap
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The people behind the Activation Synthesis model were not psychologists. What were they?
Biologists
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Card 2
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This cell passes messages in the brain.
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Neuron
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A way of messages being passed, via crossing a synapse in the brain.
Back
Card 4
Front
A stage of sleep that occurs about five times each night, wherein dreams take place.
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Card 5
Front
Information generated within the brain is known as what?
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