PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Sleep Spindle, Sleepwalking, Non-Rapid Eye Movement Sleep

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Film notes below: arousal and cost/reward analysis. Where the body is ready to tackle and deal with the emergency (reactions) To reduce the arousal is to help the individual right away. People don"t usually do this because of the cost and reward analysis. Half the time were not aware that were doing this. Weighing the cost and benefit of the situation. Took 3 factors and put it together to form a model: Interpret the event as an nonemergency (no helping action) Decide that it is one"s personal responsibility to act. Decide that it is not one"s responsibility to act (no helping action) Connects to acting out (above) -direct intervention. Connects to no acting out (above)-indirect intervention (notifying others) Electrodes placed at different parts of the scalp and the eeg picks up that activity that occurs in the brain. Tells us about the different stages of sleep (brain waves) Wave frequency refers to cycle per second (hertz)