PSYC 2000 Chapter : CH 4
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4 consciousness: sleep, dreams, and hypnosis: consciousness, the awareness of complex private processes such as perception, thinking, and remembering, types of consciousness, waking consciousness your thoughts, feelings, and sensations are clear and organized. You feel alert: altered state of consciousness thoughts may be fuzzy and disorganized, taking bizarre turns. One of our body"s biological rhythms: biological rhythm, infradian: occur over a period of time greater than 24 hours. Period: ultradian: occur more than once in a 24 hour cycle. Eating: circadian: variation occurs in (roughly) a 24 hour period. People will experience microsleep (brief periods of sleep lasting for a matter of seconds). Symptoms trembling hands, inattention, staring off into space, droopy eyelids, general discomfort, depression, irritability : when you"re young you sleep more, when you get older it gets less. Twenty years old you need 9 hours: theories of sleep, restorative theory of sleep we sleep for health reasons.
