PSYCH 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sleep Spindle, Inattentional Blindness, Mind

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Psychology & Brain Sciences
• Course: PSYCH 100
• Professor: John Bickford

Document Summary

Consciousness: a persons momentary awareness o experiencing sensaions, thoughts and feelings. Stage 1: transiion b/t sleep and awake; alpha waves (rapid, low voltage); possible vivid imagery; hypnic jerks. Stage 2: theta waves (slower, more reg); sleep spindles, less easily aroused. Stage 3: delta waves (slower patern, high peaks); more diicult to arouse. Stage 4: delta waves (even more slow/reg); least responsive; occurs during early cycles. 90 min/night; increases w/exerion or stress; skeletal muscle paralysis; deprivaion=rem rebound. Fredian wish fulillment: dreams represent unconscious wishes that the dreamer wants to fulill. Manifest content: story line of dream latent content: the unconscious wish it represents vagina car. Dreams for survival: represent the reprocessing of important info from daily life. Reverse learning theory: dreams have no meaning at all mental house keeping: lush away unnecessary info accumulated throughout the day; unlearning of useless material. Acivaion synthesis theory: brain produces random electrical energy during sleep that simulates mental content.