Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Sleep Deprivation, Problem Solving, Sleep Spindle

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Daily cycles: blood pressure, body temperature, chemical concentrations. 25-hour clock : the body naturally will fall into a 25-hour clock. Peak levels in late afternoon (best time for physical tasks) Awareness of the relationship between self and the external world. Monitoring keeping track of the self. Information is not currently available to you, but it could be. Information is not accessible; however, it is effecting you on a level that you are aware of. The information may leak out from time to time. Freud, a happy person never fantasizes, only an unhappy one (freud, 1908) Daydreaming: roughly every 90 minutes, top five things we daydream about, failure or success, aggression, sex or romance, guilt, problem solving. Why do we daydream: safety value; an escape from life, alters mood in a positive direction, low risk way to deal with problems; imagine reality, increase arousal. Hours of sleep; 19. 9 hours for a brown bat, 1. 9 hours for a giraffe.