[PSYC 1020H] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (87 pages long!)

• School: Trent University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1020H
• Professor: Neil Fournier

Document Summary

Can"t be in the position know that they were doing anything wrong. Regardless of modality, sign & speech, recruit wernicke and boca regions. **language is separate from speech consciousness occurs on a continuum. Used to see if someone is alive or not. Add dye to see if there is blood in the brain (no blood = dead) Electroencephalogram (eeg) to check the voltage from different points of the brain. Measures the activity of 1000s of neurons within the 1-2 mm outer surface of cortex. Only measuring structures on the outside of the brain transitions of consciousness. Zeitgeber a stimulus that resets the biological clock (e. g. bright light) Awake sleep stage 1 2 3 4 rem sleep. Stage 1 transition from wakefulness to onset of sleep. Characterized by low voltage eeg activity that will develop into sinusoidal alpha. Heart rate slows, slow rolling eye movements, hypnic jerks, hypnagogic imagery. Vertex spikes appear during stage 1 sleep lasts several minutes.