PSYC 353 Lecture Notes - Rapid Eye Movement Sleep, Sleep Spindle, Delta Wave
17 Mar 2014
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O poor strategy is avoidance (deny or don"t address stressor: good one is directly confronting stressor (writing, seek social support) Personality: type a personality (poor for health): time urgency, hostility, easily aroused, competitive. Natural disasters cause more stress than bad wealth b/c unpredictability, job lay- offs, longer the stress the worse it is] Resilience- capacity to respond productively to stressful events: if know blizzard is coming and will lose power, then those w/ resilience will feel more prepared and might stock up on food and resources. Pessimism- interprets negative effects as one"s own fault, and believe stressor likely to continue: stressful event happened b/c deserve it or could"ve prevented it and i didn"t. Guided mastery techniques- goal is to promote self- efficacy belief. Stress is a frequent contributor to sleeping problems. Stage 2- sleep spindles (bursts of high frequency), k- complex (brief, but big rises and falls) Stage 3- delta waves (lower frequency)- restorative sleep to recover from the day.
