PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Sensory Deprivation, Kosovo Force, Parasomnia
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**for peer scholar use apa format for referencing. According to a theory : sleep is for conserving energy. We are not sure what sleep is for yet. Eeg put electrodes on head or a cap that pick up electrical. They hooked these up and looked for patte4rns when people were sleeping the more you sleep, higher the chance of remembering dreams. You can selectively inhibit a person from deep sleep or rem sleep. Sleep and physical repair? sleep is only repairing when someone has to be conscious and deal with complex ideas. Rem sleep (learning of skills) if you mess with rem sleep, when tested of that skill, they perform very poorly. If you don"t get dreams, you will start to hallucinate. Sleep disorders caused by: stress, guilt, worry: insomnia cognitive impairments and health risks, parasomnias (sleep walking is included)
