PSYCH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Problem Solving, Word Association, Dejavu Fonts
9 Dec 2013
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Includes everything of which we are aware at any given time, thoughts, feelings, mental processes, and events outside ourselves. Awareness of ourselves/environment (engage in a task: before you make the task an eeg will make a movement) Annual cycles: migrate, hibernate, mood: depressed in spring (light cycles) Twenty four hour cycles: varying alertness, body temperature, growth hormone secretion, all mammals/birds sleep (circadian rhythm: biological clock) Sleep occurs in 90 minute cycles, you need 7-10 hours, newborns need 16 hours. Pass through all stages several times a night. When you miss rem - you make up for it next time (rem rebound) People with rem behaviour disorder act out their dreams - brain stems structures for paralysis. Function of eye movements are unknown aren"t working right. Blind after 7 years old = dream with visual imagery. Lucid dreaming = realize you are dreaming while asleep (hostile characters become less frightening) Rem dreams are emotional, illogical, plot shifts.
