Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ciprofloxacin, Sleepwalking, Antihypertensive Drug

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mike Atkinson

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Next time: learning part 2 scan: pages 237-246. He claims that he was dreaming and started to sleepwalk. Therefore, he shouldn"t be held accountable because he was dreaming at the time. Dreams and sleepwalking typically occur in different stages of sleep. More likely to be remembered: dreams in last rem period (longest) Reflection of cortical activity (higher brain activity; high intensity) In adults correlated with psychopathology (anxiety: antidepressants, beta blockers, antihypertensives, cipro, antihistamines, l-dopa, withdrawal. Measured both frequency of nightmares and anxiety. Dream logs indicated an average of 25/year. Chapter 6c/7a: dreams and learning: aka it"s normal to have this level of nightmare activities, unrelated to anxiety. * wants to sleep, but urges invade consciousness. Let the urges happen, but disguise them as dreams . But, manifest content contains clues ladder, riding a horse, crossing a bridge, flying an airplane . Symbols where one thing stands for another. According to freud, symbols for sexual intercourse include : climbing a.