PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Frontal Lobe, Ontogeny, Autonomic Computing

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Kenneth Campbell

Document Summary

Release of repressed desires / drives from the unconscious (freud. The actual content of the dream (its manifest content) is symbolic of our true (but repressed) desires (the latent: content) Strong emotional rem dream (fear, but also sadness, despair) Occur most often in teens (40-50%) and about 1/3 of adults. May reduce emotional anxiety/trauma during the day. According to myers, the cortex is very active and wake like, but the muscles are very inactive. Other researchers: the cortex seems to be conscious(wake-like), yet sleeper. 75% of stage n3 spent in the first half of the night. 75% of stage rem spent in the last half of the night. Rem rapidly declines in % after birth. Problem: both rem and nrem are multifaceted (changes in motor activity, cortical arousal, eye movements, muscle atonia, changes in autonomic systems, temperature changes. Some aspects of sleep maybe shown, but not all in different species. Sea mammals must constantly be in motion.