THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS
STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
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Question
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Your young child wakes up a few nights per month seemingly in a panic. She sits up in bed screaming and crying. When awakened, the child usually returns to sleep and doesn’t remember this happening at all. What is the best explanation for this behavior?
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She most likely had a nightmare.
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She has excessive anxiety during the day.
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Her suprachiasmatic nucleus is not triggering melatonin release.
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She is probably experiencing night terrors.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -What is the best explanation for this behavior? She is probably experiencing night terrors, a fairly common event in early childhood.
Detailed explanation-2: -Wakefulness is the ability to open your eyes and have basic reflexes such as coughing, swallowing and sucking.
Detailed explanation-3: -Loss of REM sleep is recouped by spending more time in REM on subsequent nights. According to Freud, what the dreamer recalls on awakening. According to Freudian theory, the symbolic meaning of a dream. A disturbance in the normal pattern of sleeping.
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