PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Lucid Dream, Parietal Lobe, Lateral Geniculate Nucleus
18 Jun 2017
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Consciousness: the subjective experience of the world, our bodies and our mental perspectives, how are bodies and mental processes understand reality, sleep and dreaming, circadian rhythms (google) During the middle of night, our vital signs are at the lowest. The rise and fall of four physical features of humans. Body temp: shows us that while we sleep, our temp is low. Blood pressure: our bp is low but increases as day goes on. Cortisol hormone: hormone that brain sends out to wake you up, high in the morning. Melatonin: sleep hormone (puts you to sleep, very high at night, looking at a screen right before bed, keeps melatonin, biological clock down. Its time to do this and that, time to have children, time to get married: sleep. 70+ 6-7 hours: not constant, afternoon naps are normal! babies 14-24 hours adults 7-10 hours. Eeg are caps that we put on people to measure brain activity: determines sleep stage.
