APSY-UE 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Suggestibility, Caffeine, Nicotine

• School: New York University
• Department: Applied Psychology
• Course: APSY-UE 2
• Professor: Adina Schick

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: our bodies synchronize with the 24-hour day/night cycle through an: as the morning approached body temperature rises, peaks during the day, dips a little bit during the afternoon, then it drops at night. They change dramatically during infancy, declining sharply during the first two years of life. Which is much less than it was 100 years ago, could be associated with the lightbulb, social constructs, work hours, social media: culture: plays least role. Doesn"t appear to be a great differences in the sleep patterns around the world. White/black americans have reported worst quality of sleep which. Dreams: discovering the connection between rem sleep and dreams allowed for huge strides in research, rem dreams are vivid and emotional. Random dreams are the brains attempt to make sense of the images shown from the brainstem: to reflect cognitive development (cid:0) dream content reflects dreamers" knowledge and understanding.