PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Circadian Rhythm, Night Terror, Sleep Deprivation
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Rem= sleep problem, dangerous, people act out in their dreams, other people hit or choke their partner during sleep. Circadian rhythms: life involves patterns that cycle within days, weeks, months or years, organisms have evolved biological rhythms which are adapted to the cycles in the environment. Circannual rhythm= yearly cycle, like bears who sleep or hibernate in the winter. Circadian rhythms= internally driven daily cycles of approximately 24 hours affecting psychological and behavioral processes. Involve tendency to be asleep or awake at specific times, feel hungrier during some parts of the day. Circadian rhythms are things that make you feel most alert and tired. People who are blind due to retinal damage cant send light signals from retina to scn and pineal gland. People experience a change in how they like to sleep people like to sleep late, wake up late, later in adulthood we sleep early, wake up early.
