PSYCH101 Chapter 5: Chapter 5 biological rhythms of consciousness

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

Consciousness is a person"s subjective awareness, including thoughts, perceptions, experiences of the world, and self-awareness. The stages of sleep poly- somnography, a set of objective measurements used to examine physiological variables during sleep. Sleep deprivation occurs when an individual cannot or does not sleep. Jet lag is the discomfort a person feels when sleep cycles are out of synchronization with light and darkness. Theories of dreaming theories of dreams was devel- oped by sigmund freud in 1899. Manifest content involves the images and storylines that we dream about. latent content is the actual symbolic meaning of a dream built on suppressed sexual or aggressive urges. When we are deprived of rem sleep, we typically experience a phenomenon called rem rebound our brains spend an increased time in rem-phase sleep when given the chance. Rem sleep produces brainwaves similar to being awake. Insomnia a disorder characterized by an extreme lack of sleep.