Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Classical Conditioning, Ernest Hilgard, Circadian Rhythm

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Lynda Hutchinson

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My story of chapter 5: a biological rhythm is referred to as: A periodic, more or less regular fluctuation in a biological system and influence the effectiveness of medication, alertness, and job performance: circadian rhythms are: Commonly entrained to external time cues, endogenous rhythm averages around. 24. 3 hours, and controlled by our biological clocks in suprachiasmatic nucleus (snc) I recognize that when we change the clock back or ahead, this event can cause my body to become internally desynchronized. I would describe each stage as the following: Stage 1 description: your brain waves become small and irregular and you feel yourself drifting on the edge of consciousness, in a state of light sleep. If awakened, you may recall fantasies or a few visual images. My brain waves look like: small and irregular. Stage 2 description: your brain emits occasional short bursts of rapid, high peaking waves called sleep spindles and minor noises won"t disturb you.