For those who took or know something about Intro To Psychology-little help please.

[Jowi]

I am an international student-at least according to tuition that college would like me to pay ( I live for almost 5 years legally on visa in US and pay taxes like the law says) .Since English is not my first language I have a question to those who took or have any background in Psychology . How can I understand this sentence? It is one of the flashcards :

REM stands for Rapid Eye Movement. Researchers noticed that as their subjects slept and began their second sleep cycle, their eyes darted back and forth under their closed eyelids. The most noteworthy aspect of their discovery is that when sleeping subjects are awakened during REM sleep, they report they are having significantly -FEWER -(word to put in the blank) dreams, and those they had were fragmented.

When everybody knows that REM is the stage where we have vivid and story like dreams and when awakened during REM we can remember them and describe... From my textbook:" Even those who claim they never dream will, 80 percent of the time, recall a dream after being awakened during REM sleep" . David G. Myers, Exploring Psychology.

[awesome6]

So if we wake you up as soon as you start having REM sleep, then you never have a chance to have any dreams, and you will report FEWER dreams. The first dream you started, but we interrupted by waking you up, will be fragmented.



CLEP Psychology 74

[Jowi]

I will maintain that it should not be written this way, it is misleading and confusing . Maybe it they write that " when subjects were frequently awakened right after REM began they reported having significantly fewer dreams and those they had were fragmented comparing " it would make more sense because the thing is that most people who sleep through all sleep stages don't even remember their dreams so they think they don't dream at all and when they are awakened during REM they know that they were having a dream and can state it while if they would not be awakened at all they would mostly say they did not dreamed at all. So I don't think that this sentence -the way how it is written- make a sense. Again like the book says: Even those who claim they never dream will, 80 percent of the time, recall a dream after being awakened during REM sleep so how can they say they are having fewer dreams if they don't remember having them while sleeping normally in the first place?

Anyway- thanks for the answer.

[Lindagerr]

You are assuming that most people do not remember dreams, that is not true. Most people will remember having dreams and may remember parts of the dream, they do not always feel the dream was fragmented. When awakened during REM sleep you do not always return to REM sleep before being awakened again so you may have(or feel you have) less dreams and they are less complete. The wording may not be the best, but it does make a valid point.

[Jowi]

That is what I am saying- the wording is ...confusing. There are also other inaccuracy's- one flashcard says that brain stem consists of medulla and NUCLEI.... My book says: brain stem consists of Medulla and Pons and Midbrain. Nuclei are there but.. in the Pons. Just an inaccuracy that can cost you a point.

[bricabrac]

That is what I am saying- the wording is ...confusing. There are also other inaccuracy's- one flashcard says that brain stem consists of medulla and NUCLEI.... My book says: brain stem consists of Medulla and Pons and Midbrain. Nuclei are there but.. in the Pons. Just an inaccuracy that can cost you a point.

Do not misjudge the cards so quickly....this IS EXACTLY how the test will trick you. Now if the test asks if the brain stem consists of the medulla, Nuclei, and midbrain. you will answer Yes. If you know Nuclei IS part of pons, then it is also considered a part of the brain stem. So you've GAINED a point.

[ryoder]

Read the REA book. The flashcards are of a lower quality than the REA book which reads very well.
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