PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Suggestibility, Hypnotic Induction, Sleep Deprivation
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Time in stages 3, 4 (slow-wave sleep) declines. Genes more similar patterns among identical twins, (lark-fast increase in body temperature owl-slow increase in body temperature), long and short sleepers (average required 6. 5 hours, 6- Partial (no more than 5 hours/night for 1 or more consecutive nights) Followed by decrements in cognitive and physical performance. Do not make up all sleep time lost. Almost all dreams are in rem vivid, emotional, story like, can be bizarre. Fears, wishes, plans hopes and worries the things we focus on while awake. Common themes (canadian student survey) chased, sex, falling, teachers/studying, arriving too late, trying to do something repeatedly, someone dies, falling. Freud"s psychoanalytic theory wish fulfillment, gratification of unconscious desires/needs (sexual and aggressive urges) Manifest content surface story of dream. Latent content disguised psychological meaning of dream. Symbols are meaningful to the individual (not generic) Problem-solving cognitive bases, creative thinking, consolidation. Activation-synthesis brain active, have to explain it/synthesis(story)
