PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Caffeine, Skeletal Muscle, Anxiety Disorder

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Allan Greer

Document Summary

Undesirable and / or distressing sleep behaviours other than insomnia and hypersomnia. Occurs exclusively during sleep or worsened by sleep. Parasomnia that occurs during stage 4 sleep, usually in children. Consists of sitting up in bed and usually disappears without treatment. Intensely frightening experiences that begin during stage 4 sleep. The rst sign often blood-curdling scream, usually followed by sitting up in bed. Ghtening dreams that occur during rem sleep. Dream recall varies from one person to another. Suggests dreams result when cortex seeks to explain high level of neuronal activity occurring during rem sleep. Franz anton mesmer claimed power to reestablish magnetic equilibrium in bodies of his patients. Social interaction in which one person, designated subject, responds to suggestions offered by another person, designated hypnotist, for experiences involving alterations in perception, memory, and voluntary action. Make you do anything you would not do otherwise. Be used to reduce pain in various kinds of medical treatments.