PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Activation-Synthesis Hypothesis, Methamphetamine, Hypnosis
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Exam on the 27th of october. (3, 5, 12) chap : 12 sleep, chap 5: 11, chap 12: 27. We spend most of our conscious lives daydreaming. If people spend more time daydreaming than in reality, they are called fantasy pro-personality people. We spend about half of our day dreaming. The first theory about sleep is it is an information processing time, which is fundamental. During rem sleep we consolidate the important information needed. The activation synthesis theory (physiological theory) argues that there are random neuron bursts that come from the lower cortex centre that have no meaning at all. The next phase of this is the brain confusion, in trying to figure out what these mean. The third is our attempts to problem solve, where she argues there is a lot of continuity of the sleeping and awake thoughts. Dreams encourage us to think about problems that are not constrained by logic or realism.
