PSYC 370 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Slow-Wave Sleep, Sleep Deprivation, Non-Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
4 Jun 2019
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Q: if one sleeps 3-4 hours less for one night- we may see increased sleepiness: negative affect, poor performance on tests of sustained attention. Q: the following was an effect seen in experimental rats subjected to the carousel apparatus: swollen adrenal glands internal bleeding, gastric ulcers. Q:according to the default theory, rem sleep is more adaptive than wakefulness when there are no immediate bodily needs. Zeitgebers: environmental cues, such as the light-dark cycle means time givers in german. Free-running circadian sleep-wake cycles: 14. 14: describe free-running rhythms, describe internal desynchronization, explain why free-running rhythms and internal desynchronization, explain why they are incompatible with recuperation theories of sleep. What happens to sleep-wake cycles and other circadian rhythms in an environment that is devoid of zeitgebers: even in an environment with no temporal cues, humans and other animals maintain all of their circadian rhythms.
