PSYC 3230H Lecture 1: September 11 What is sleep?
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Intro: provide intro to topic, statement of thesis, outline of your arguments. Body: review of the literature that supports thesis, can use headings to organize paper. Conclusion: restate thesis, provide a summary of your argument with the supporting research properly referenced. Discuss the differences between behavioural and physiological definitions of sleep. A reversible behavioural state of perceptual disengagement from and unresponsiveness to the environment - carskadon and dement (2005, p. 13) Berger (1929)- electrical currents in the brain. Kleitman and aserinsky: used new measure of brain activity to study sleep in babies, found that there were two distinct periods. One where the body is very still, and one where the eyes moved very fast: first studied sleep by observation could observe different phases of sleep. The generation of very small electrical fields by synaptic currents in pyramidal cells: in this case, the synapse is on the upper part of the dendrite.
