Differences Between Nightmares and Night Terrors Include

question 266

Multiple Choice

Differences between nightmares and night terrors include

• A)that nightmares occur during REM sleep; night terrors occur during NREM sleep.
• B)that nightmares are difficult to remember; night terrors are easy to remember.
• C)that nightmares involve hallucinations; night terrors are just bad dreams.
• D)all of these.

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Definitions:

Conditioned Taste Aversion

Development of a nausea or aversive response to a particular taste because that taste was followed by a nausea reaction, occurring after only one association.

Learned Helplessness

A condition in which an individual feels unable to change their situation after repeatedly facing uncontrollable events, leading to passive and resigned behavior.

Spontaneous Recovery

A conditioned response's revival, once thought to be extinguished, after a time without exposure to the associated stimulus.

Operant Conditioning

An instructional method in which the magnitude of an action is either encouraged or suppressed through positive or negative feedback.