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Circadian
Rhythm
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- 24-hour cycle of day and night through a
biological clock
- suprachiasmatic
nucleus (SCN)— hypothalamus that control the circadian clock; produces
sleep-producing melatonin
- light disrupts 24-hour clock
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REM
Sleep
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- rapid eye movement-10
minutes long
- heart rate rises, breathing irregular and rapid,
- aka paradoxical
sleep; the body is internally aroused and externally calm
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Alpha
Waves
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- awake but in unrelated state - quicker waves
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Delta
Waves
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- your in a hard to awaken state for 30 minutes - slow, longer waves
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Sleep
Theories
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1.
Sleep protects- ex- ancestors better off in
a cave than hunting for food at night
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Sleep helps us recuperate- helps us restore brain tissue and
neurons
3.
Sleep also for remembering- restore and rebuild memory;
people trained for a task remember better after a well nights sleep
4.
Sleep may play a role in growth- pituitary gland releases a
growth hormone. As we age, we release less of this hormone and spend less time
in deep sleep
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Narcolepsy
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- sufferers experience periodic, overwhelming
sleepiness
- attacks are less than 5 min and occur at most inopportune
times
- could cause a collapse directly
into REM sleep
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Sleep
Apnea
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- intermittently stop breathing
during sleep
- caused by decreased blood
oxygen causes person to awake about 100 times per night
- causes snoring
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Night Terrors
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- targets children
- may sit up or walk around, talk
incoherently, increased heart/breathing rate
- occurs during REM sleep; seldom
fully wake up-don’t remember
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REM rebound
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-when REM sleep deprived there an increase in REM rebound
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Posthypnotic suggestions
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- try to help patients harness own healing power- alleviate headaches, asthma, skin disorders
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Dissociation
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- a split between different levels of consciousness - dissociates the sensation of the pain stimulus from the emotional suffering that defines our experience of pain
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Age regression
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recovering memory as far back as birth - people being abducted by UFO’s - the belief in aliens, have gone through hypnosis before
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Unconditioned response (UR) unlearned
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-natural occurring response to the unconditioned stimulus
- ex- salivating when food is in mouth |
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Unconditioned stimulus (US) unlearned
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- the stimulus that causes the unconditional response cause naturally
- ex- food causes salivation |
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Conditioned response (CR) learned
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-salvation in response to a tone was conditional upon the dogs learning the association between the food and tone
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