PSYC 106 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Psych, Oliver Sacks, Dorsal Root Of Spinal Nerve
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We do not know the functions of sleep!!! Like flies and worms: even they do it as well- dif mechanisms but they do it, worms and flies- cannot have an eeg but everything has sleep. Older ppl need much less sleep than younger- but ppl would disagree: sleep is the black, white are perios of awake ness. On the right side numbers of times that he is asleep. When kid is initially sleeping- completely random. But then later they have more of a pattern. Which is not a correct description of the figure to the left? (clicker: a. double-plotted, b. sometimes free-funning, c. an actogram, d. all are correct, answer- a. Double plotted- two whole days on x axis. Circadian system starts getting in the game shiiiitt: huge individual dif in when ppl like to sleep- larks and owls in humans larks are people who get up early and sleep early.
