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Chapter 6 part 1: sleep Flashcards

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consciousness definition

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subjective experience of our world, our bodies, and mental perspectives

  • thoughts, emotions, sensations, actions, events
  • typical in single celled organisms
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consciousness constantly in flux

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  • subjective and private (same event experienced differently)
  • continuously changing (perception changes based on attention and awareness)
  • selective attention (e.g watching a video)
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3 methods of measuring conscious states

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self reports
physiological
behavioural

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self report methods of measuring conscious

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direct insight into subjective experience, not verifiable

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physiological measuring of conscious states

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HR, EEG, sweating, relate body state to mental state

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Behavioural measuring of conscious states

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task performance/ rouge test/ more objective than self report but have to infer state of mind.

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freud’s psychodynamic perspective

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he talks about the 3 level model of consciousness and how nonconscious processes influence behaviour

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freud’s 3 level model of consciousness

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conscious = our current awareness
preconscious = outside awareness but easily recalled
unconscious

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controlled processing

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things like planning, studying, flexible and being open to change.

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automatic processing

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has little conscious effort
- well learned routine, does not hange
faster executions, less brain recruitment

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divided attention

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performing more than one activity a time

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visual agnosia

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can tell shape and colour but can’t consciously name or recognize object, tend to describe what they’re seeing

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blind sight is the damage of what part of the brain?

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V1 (cortical blindess - some visual information bypasses v1 and is processed in association areas)

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superchiasmatic nucleus (SCN)

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20,000 neurons in hypothalamus (active during day, quiet at night)
controls levels of alertness
- cues siesta (napping in afternoon)

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______ rhythms prepare us for sleep

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circadian rhythms

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evidence why humans need sleep

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immune system, memory consolidation, neural development, conserve energy, remove from danger and avoid predation at night

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sleep requirements for life stages

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newborns = 16hrs
adults = 7hrs
old age = 7 hours
university student = 9 hours

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brain waves during day

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beta = while you're reading -- normal state
alpha = while you're resting or wathcing tv
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brain waves during sleep

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theta = hypnoidal state/ pre sleep
delta = regenrative sleep/ deep sleep state
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How many stages of sleep are there?

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5 stages

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how long is the 1st stage of sleep?

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5-10 minutes

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what happens during the 1st stage?

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hynagogic imagery

myoclonic jerks

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what happens during stage 2 of sleep

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up to 65% of sleep

  • spindles and k complexes
  • physiological correlates sleep (relaxed muscles)
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what happens during stage 3-4 of sleep?

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30 minutes into cycle
fully resting
alcohol suppresses
25% of sleep in adults; 40% of sleep in children

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stage 5 is also known as…

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REM cycles

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What happens during REM?

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HR increases, increased temperature, arousal

25% of sleep

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how long is REM?

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10-20 minutes? increases with subsequent cycles.

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REM dreams vs. NREM dreams

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82% of REM is a dream; 7% for NREM

  • REM dreams are emotional, illogical, sudden plot shifts
  • NREM dreams are shorter thoughtlike, repetitive, everyday topics - resemble REMS
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what are the eyes doing during REM?

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rapid eye movements - scanning hypothesis

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what is MEMA?

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Middle Ear Muscle Activity during REM sleep

- perhaps assisting hearing sounds in dream.

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Bodies during REM?

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totally paralyzed

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insomnia

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  • trouble falling asleep (taking 30+ minutes)
  • waking too early in morning
  • waking up during middle of night and not falling back asleep
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how is insomnia treated?

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  • ambien

- lunesta (Can cause amnesia)

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narcolepsy

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sudden plummet into REM sleep in any situation that lasts minutes or seconds
- related to cataplexy

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cataplexy

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sudden emotions or laughter can cause someone to be paralyzed but conscious

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causes of narcolepsy

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TBI 
genetic abnormalities (orexin)
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treatments of narcolepsy

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modafinil (provigil)

- promotes wakefulness

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sleep disorder “somnambulist” also known as…

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sleep walking

  • driving, sex, do work, committing murder
  • it’s okay to wake people up
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night terrors

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  • different from nightmare
  • occurs during NREM
  • no recollection
  • harmless
  • almost exclusively in children.
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blind people can have dreams if….

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blinded after age of 7

before age of 4 is lacking visual dreams

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cross cultural consistency in dreams

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more aggresive
more negative
gender differences (women dream about females, and males dream more about males)

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Cultural differences in the dream realm

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people in technological cultures dream less about animals

- western culture more likely to recall childhood dreams

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benefits of dreaming and why we think we do it

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  • learning new strategies
  • simulating threats to prepare for future experiences
  • reorganizing and consolidating memories
  • integrating new experiences with established memories
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Freud’s dream protection theory

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dreams reveal hidden desires//

our desires are guarded by dreams

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activation synthesis theory

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dreams reflect inputs from brain activation originating in the pons, which the forebrain then attempts to weave into a story

  • explains why the narrative is rarely logical
  • the pons is visual and language driven
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role of forebrain in dreams

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if damaged, loss of dreams

damage of white matter and posterior partietal

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why are children’s dreams simple?

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children lack emotion and movement - less negative emotion/ aggression
- when adults walk about daily life, we feel numerous emotions

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