PSYCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Classical Conditioning, Orgasm, Gestalt Psychology

• School: PSU
• Department: Psychology - CA
• Course: PSYCH 100
• Professor: Beth Lebreton

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*your exam will have 50 mc questions and covers chapters 4, 7, 8, 9 & 12* *the exam is in class at your regular time and room* Know all of the stages of sleep (both rem and non-rem) including brain waves associated with each stage. Hypnogogic state, feeling of falling (myoclonia), theta waves. Stage 2: mid sleep, sleep spindles, k complex. Stage 3: deep sleep, delta waves at 20%, heart rate and breathing slow. Stage 4: deepest sleep, delta waves 100%, blood pressure and brain activity at lowest point. Internally: brain temp rises, epinephrine releases > blood pressure, heart rate, respiration increase. Be familiar with hypnosis and meditation: hypnosis: induced altered consciousness, deep relaxation, heightened suggestibility . Social role playing: acting out suggestions: meditation: alert-relaxation, improves immune system, lower bp and cholesterol, creates a general feeling of well being . Understand how the human visual system works (including the parts of the eye and how they function)