PSYC 2000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Fatal Familial Insomnia, Nicotine Withdrawal, Fundamental Attribution Error
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Consciousness stages 1+2 light sleep theta waves spindles in stage 2 (important because spindles help with memory consolidation ie reinforce what you"ve learned) Sleep paralysis is between stages of rem and awake. Rem sleep: glycine and gaba prevent you from acting out dreams. Paralyze muscles during dreaming: delay in chemical reaction where you cannot move when you wake up. Narcolepsy is where you fall straight into rem sleep anytime. Sleep apnea is a failure to breathe during sleep: somnambulism = sleepwalking, night terrors. Rem sleep not work: rem behavior disorder = the mechanism which blocks movement does. Alcohol lightens sleep, reduces rem, causes you to experience rem rebound (you sleep poorly the next night as well), if you have a sleeping condition already it intensifies it, restless. Caffeine keeps you awake by blocking adenosine receptors in your brain, a decrease in neuron firing in pituitary gland, produces adrenaline.
