PS264 Lecture 6: PS 264 – Lecture 6
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Brain show same brain activity as when you are actively awake. When emotion is present in dream, it tends to be negative so it should allow us not to move too much. Stages of sleep: back up the ladder: after stage 4 period, sleeper goes (cid:494)back through earlier stages, stage 3, then stage 2, but not another stage 1. It is likely when we wake up this person from when they are just in this stage: what does the textbook suggest about dreams and nrem sleep, that it is more like non-emotional, random thoughts. It helped our ancestors survive and reproduce: 65% of our dreams are negative, you get an opportunity to learn from your dreams, similar as a virtual play back idea. Sleep deprivation (page 74: effects of sleep deprivation vary with type of task (e. g. , long boring task show deficits in sustaining attention, anti-depressant effects of sleep deprivation, dream deprivation: understand the following concepts.
