PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Endorphins, Involuntary Servitude, Benzodiazepine

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Benjamin Giguere

Document Summary

In psychology, it often refers to a person"s subjective awareness of internal and external stimuli, including thoughts, perceptions, experiences, and self-awareness. Automatic variations, such as daydreaming, drowsiness, sleep and dreams. Physiological variations, such as hallucinations, lack of oxygen, orgasms. Psychological variations, such as sensory deprivation, hypnosis, mindfulness meditation: sleep and dreams. Pace of 90 minutes: approximately every 90 minutes we pass through ve stages of sleep. These stages are associated with different brain waves: vary in frequency, amplitude, and regularity, are measured with an electroencephalogram (eeg) Awake and active: beta waves: high in frequency, low amplitude during active conversation, often irregular waves. Awake and calm: alpha waves:lower frequency and higher amplitude than waves meditation, more regular than waves. Stages 1 and 2: theta waves: lower frequency and larger amplitude than waves someone drowsy and drifting asleep, breathing, bp, and hr decrease, sleep spindles.