PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Neuroplasticity, Vocal Warm Up, Change Blindness

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

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Week 10 awareness learning concepts: explain the concept of brain plasticity. Brain plasticity is that the brain can change throughout life. Lateralization of function has to do with the separation of cortex specialities and other parts specific abilities that then work together to create life. Other su(cid:272)h e(cid:454)peri(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts ha(cid:448)e sho(cid:449)(cid:374) so(cid:373)e fields(cid:859) spe(cid:272)ifi(cid:272) a(cid:271)ilities. Ho(cid:449)s i(cid:374)teresti(cid:374)g a(cid:271)ilit(cid:455) to (cid:373)ake connections: describe the stages of sleep, and indicate how they are measured. Stage 1 lasts 10 minutes, first falling asleep: theta waves (decreased frequency) Stage 2 next 10-20 minutes, falling more asleep: irregular eeg and sleep spindles, kcomplex. Stage 3 falling into deeper sleep: slow-wave sleep (short transition): delta waves. Stage 4 15-30minutes, deepest sleep: less than 50% delta waves less time as night progresses. Rem-10-20 minutes, increased heart rate, breathing and brain activity, dream stage, increased time in this stage as night progresses, eyes move and hands may twitch but otherwise muscle paralysation.