PSYC 208- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 29 pages long!)
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Sleep is : death-like, toxic state, poisoned, drunk, we regenerate, heal, recover, the state that opens the door to our deep subconscious, variable terminology. Recurring and reversible state characterized by : a reduction in environmental awareness/perceptual disengagement , lowered skeletal and muscular motility, partial or complete abeyance of voluntary behaviour and consciousness, active brain/neural activity. Lecture 1: not only absence of wakefulness, an interdependent state with wakefulness each influencing the other, more complex as we ascend evolutionary hierarchy, crucial for survival. 450 bc alcmaeon: earliest documented theory of sleep, loss of consciousness as blood retreats from surface of body. 1830 robert mcnish: wrote philosophy of sleep, sleep is temporary of metaphysical death, no great change during sleep. 1866 john davey: on the temperature of man body temp and sleep patterns are not dependent on the external environment internally driven, snake-like cold blooded when sleep.
