Ch 5 Variations In Consciousness Flashcards
What do circadian rhythms responsible for?
Modulating body temperature, heart rate, metabolism, and sleep
What are suprachiramasmatic nuclei responsible for?
Control of circadian rhythms
What are the 5 stages of sleep?
- First 2 ish mins. Falling feeling and hallucinations
- About 20 mins Feelings of relaxation
- Transition period
- Slow wave sleep Delta waves about 30 mins, sleepwalking, bed wetting
- REMOVE
What are three reasons sleep is important?
Restorative, ecological niche, and growth
What are the 5 types of insomnia?
Transient, learned, psychiatric, physiological, and subjective
What is transient insomnia?
Insomnia that lasts for a few days, due to anxiety
What is learned insomnia?
Being worried about falling asleep, become conditioned
What is psychiatric insomnia?
Pathological reasons like anxiety that cause Insomnia
What is psysiologal insomnia?
Things keeping you from sleeping like body pain
What is subjective insomnia?
Not thinking you get enough sleep, may be underlying psych disorders
When do dreams happen?
During rem sleep normally
Why do we dream? Identify 4 reasons?
Information processing, activation synthesis, problem solving, and wish fulfillment
What is polysomnigraphy?
Measuring brain waves while you sleep to look for insomnia and other sleep disturbances
When does slow wave sleep happen? Before or after REM?
Before
What is rem sleep? Give 5 examples of characteristics
Deep sleep, rapid eye movement, high frequency low amplitude brain waves, vivid dreaming
During slow wave sleep, what types of EEG activation is prominent?
Delta
Does a child, infant, adult, or elderly person spend more time in REM sleep?
An infant
What would happen if your reticular activating system was broken?
You would experience constant sleep
Amphetamines work by increasing the levels of what?
Noeprinephrine and dopamine