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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
09/23/2010

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circadium
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biological rhythm
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suprahiasmatic nucleus
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back of hyperthalmus;recieves message about how much light is around
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jet lag
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if you get there and its light outside, get up and let your body get used to it; takes 1 or 2 days to get over it
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sleep cycle
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80-100 minutes and atleast goes 6 times a night
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stage 1
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twilight phase- alfawave sleep; eyes are getting heavy; pop-up and respond; very easy to arouse
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stage 2
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still can arouse you; turning on lights
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stage 3
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very difficult to arouse you; very deep sleep; deltawave sleep-not respond to noise or light
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stage 4
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15-20 mins of sleep cycle; most difficult stage; rim sleep- rapid eye movement

restoration- dreaming; when your body is trying to rest itself

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insomnia
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difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep; reoccuring problem
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sleep walking
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young children
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sleep talking
Definition
nonsense talking in your sleep stage 2 or 3 when your overly tired
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night mare
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scary dream; say what theyre about
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night terror
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extreme; hard to calm then down; cant tell what theyre about; use abtidepresant
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sleep apnea
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stop breathing; snore; their body doesnt allow them to get the rim sleep because the body stops breathing so you start over with the cycle; us cpat machine; ex being overweight because you have the weight pushed against airway
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narcolepsy
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will fall asleep really fast; ex. if you are talking to someone and they fall asleep; cant drive, cant have a job
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what do you do with kids who have bad dreams?
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tell them a lie thatll make them believe everything is okay; behavior mod technique
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what depends on what we dream?
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age

sex

culture

sleep cycle

what were doing right before bed

SES status(race)

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age
Definition

2-5= dreams are brief; involve animals; images are unrelated

7-9= more inheritive

9-10=adult-like

adults=4-5 dreams, more real time

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sigmund freud
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unconscious wishes; morally free; dreams "rural road to the unconscious"
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dreams and information processing
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reprocessing information that we have gathered during the day; strengthen memory
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alan hubsin
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dreams are basically neurons that are misfiring in your sleep
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dreams are waking life
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dreams are extension of our consciousness
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do we need dreams?
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yes, its an indicator of rim sleep
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rim rebounding
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spend double amount of time in rim sleep
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consciousness
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awareness of processes sleeping, dreaming, and consentrating
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waking consciousness
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alterstate consciousness
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drugs
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day dreaming
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provide ourself a break from reality
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what fraction of your life do you spend sleeping
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