PSY 4327 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Slow-Wave Sleep, Sleep Spindle, Non-Rapid Eye Movement Sleep

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 4327
• Professor: Stuart Fogel

Document Summary

S l e e p & d r e a m s : l e c t u r e 1. M o n d a y , j a n u a r y 9 , 2 0 1 7. The amount of cycles discriminates the type of waves. Stage 1: theta waves (e. g. falling asleep on the bus) Stage 3 or slow wave sleep (sws): delta waves. Cycle 1: awake nrem 1, 2, 3 rem. Rem is very short in the first cycle. Wake up a little (cid:271)it after (cid:894)light sleep(cid:895): that"s (cid:449)he(cid:374) (cid:455)ou remember dreams. Then go back into deep sleep, and rem. Most sws/stage 3 sleep within beginning of night and less at the end. Less rem sleep at the beginning of night and more at the end. Eeg: how sleep was discovered, and how we study sleep. Spindles were one of the first things identified from eeg recordings. Measured by putting electrodes on the scalp.