01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Restless Legs Syndrome, Delta Wave, Jet Lag

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Mimi Phan

Document Summary

Includes thoughts, perceptions, experiences of the world and self- awareness. Varies from controlled consciousness to daydreaming, sleeping. Sleeping and walking are alternating states of consciousness: circadian rhythms-a 24-hour biological clock that humans and others operate on. Involved in our tendency to sleep or be awake, feel hunger and even concentrate. Generally persist even when external times cues are eliminated. Morning or evening person: most young adults are evening people or no preference, over 65 are morning people, lab rats confirmed difference between older and younger. Monday morning brain fog : shift work is problematic, stages of sleep. Polysomnography: objective measurements used to examine physiological variables during sleep: eeg: a device that measures brain waves, frequency: the number of up-down cycles in brain waves every second, amplitude: the height and depth of the frequencies. Beta waves: (high frequency, low-amp waves) are characteristic of wakefulness.