Psychology 1000 Lecture : Dreams

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

Document Summary

Webb (1975: learning and memory, mood adjustment. Rem deprived subjects show reduced ability to retain new information. Speed of cycling into rem correlated with positive mood the next day. Depressed individuals tend to cycle into rem very quickly. Perhaps this helps improve mood in some fashion. About 15% of adults complain of experiencing a sleep disorder. Sleep 5 hours, but expect 8 hours like other people. Situational insomnia: specific stressor: chronic insomnia: possibly circadian rhythm problem, thermoregulation problem, failure to lower body temperature, activation remains high and normal sleep cycle fails to develop, sleep apnea. Normal, but people with this disorder do not start breathing again unless they wake up. Severe: may stop for about 1 minute, hundreds of times in the night: leads to insomnia. Cause: obstruction of air passage (loud snores, abnormal brain function (sid, narcoleptic. Cause: abnormal timing cycle for rem, deplete supply of hypo-cretins, often triggered by strong emotions, parasomnia.