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Psychology - Sleep
Sleep, stages of sleep, sleep disorders, meditation, hypnosis, psychoactive drugs
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
06/14/2009

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Consciousness
Definition
whats in your mind right now, what you're thinking
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altered states of consciousness
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sleep, meditation, psychoactive drugs, hypnosis
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REM Rebound
Definition
when you withdraw from (cocaine, LSC, alcohol, depression) you lose REM sleep.. and then try to sleep you jump back into REM sleep and have horrid nightmares.
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circadian rhythm
Definition
our natural highs and lows during a 24 hour period
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narcolepsy
Definition
uncontrollable sleep attacks; go right into rem sleep.
sometimes genetic.
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sleep apnea
Definition
stop breathing during sleep.
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insomnia
Definition
difficulty falling and staying asleep.
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nightmares
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occur during REM sleep, sleeper remembers dreams.
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parasomnias
Definition
sleep walking, sleep talking, night terrors
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Why do we dream?
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1. dreams are the window to the unconscious
2. activation-sunthesis hypothesis: you dream during REM sleep.. frontal lobe is in active, but your fear and memories are going wild.
3.dreams are an extensiion to real life
4. dreams and information processing
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theories of sleep
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restorative: body needs to rest and process the days stresses and rejuvinate

circadium: sleep cause sun/moon. during sun we have less melatonin, at night we have more.

evolutionary: we slept at night in safety to keep safe from predators.
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meditation:
Definition
increase in cardio vascular health
decrease in pulse rate, heart rate, respiratory.
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hypnosis: socio-cognitive theory
Definition
go into therapy with a positive outlook. you listen to the hypnotist directions and seee results for usually a year.
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hypnosis: neodisociation theory:
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a mind-body split. ie: disassociate physical pain from mental.
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theory of dissociated control
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give up control to the hypnotist (true)
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Psychoactive drugs:
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males more at risk to abuse.
benetics plays a role.
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Learning
Definition
a relatively permanent change in behavior resulting from experience or practice
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classical conditioning (pavlovian learning)
Definition
behavior shaped by learned associations. (dog)
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