PSY 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Somniloquy, Enuresis, Narcolepsy

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 110
• Professor: Rod Gillis

Document Summary

The mark test (rouge and mirror test: child marked with make up, the make up after seen in mirror should be touched. Hypnogoic state: when you first go to sleep between awake and stage 1; doesn"t always happen. Circadian rhythms (melatonin): melatonin is released when you see dark, telling you to go to sleep. Repair theory: we sleep to regenerate our body and mind. Adaptive nonresponding: we have evolved to go to sleep at a time that we are not most skilled. Repression hypothesis: repressed thoughts and feelings that affect our behavior are processed through our dreams. Activation-synthesis hypothesis: we seek patterns in random neural firings, so sleep is for synthesis: random neural activity: trying to make sense of things. Problem solving hypothesis: we have dream to cope with anxiety and to deal with problems and stress. Memory consolidation: babies use dreams in rem in order to consolidate memories and process. Insomnia: inability to sleep, inadequate or unrestful sleep.