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Why do we sleep?

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Learning, memory, safety, mood, immune system

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How much sleep do teens need?

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9 and a quarter hours

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3 theories of dreams: Freud

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Freud’s theory, sees dreams as wish fulfillment and reflections of unconscious desires

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3 theories of dreams: Jung

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Jung’s theory, focuses on balancing one’s personality and connecting to the collective unconscious

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3 theories of dreams: Hall

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Hall’s theory, views dreams as reflections of personal cognitive structures.

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What is hypnosis used for?

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Clinical therapy, pain management, behavioral change, stress reduction, performance enhancement, and memory recall.

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Endocrine system?

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Body’s messaging system, metabolism, growth, mood

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Nervous system

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Body’s control center, move, think, feel, breathe, heart beating

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Frontal lobe

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Voluntary movements, expressive language, high level functions

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Parietal lobes

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Receiving and processing information

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Temporal lobe

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Emotions

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Occipital lobe

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Visual processing

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Cerebrum

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Movement

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Cerebellum

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Language, attention

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Brainstem

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breathing, heart rate, sleep

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Hemispheres

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2, left and right
Left controls right side of body and vise versa

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Corpus Callosum

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Connects hemispheres