PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Waking Hours, Hypersomnia, Hypnosis

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 101
• Professor: Wendy Quinton

Document Summary

Consciousness: an awareness of internal and external simuli. Meditaion: techniques to produce quiet, recepive mood---self-focused. Alcohol: relaxed euphoria, anxiety reducion, lowering of inhibiions. Sleep restores depleted resources (immune system/ consolidated memory/regenerate cells) 24-hours biological cycles found in humans and many other species. Ignoring regular sleep-wake circadian cycle can have negaive efects. # during the night, most people repeat cycle 4 imes. Lark: prefer to go to bed earlier. 20% of drivers have dozed at least once. Accidents 5 imes more likely at night than in morning. --can"t go to sleep easily or stay asleep; waking too early. --sudden atacks of drowsiness, rem sleep during waking hours. --cataplexy: abrupt loss of muscle control that makes person go limp. --abnormal behavior during the sleep that is disrupive. --usually occurs in 1 st few hours of sleep (deep stage sleep) Side efects of neural acivaion during rem sleep.