PSY 102 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Lucid Dream, Delta Wave, Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
10 Feb 2016
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Consciousness: our subjective experience of ourselves and the world around us (subjective experience of the world, our bodies, and our mental perspectives, constantly changing awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, blurred lines between sleeping and waking experiences. Level of alertness adapts to shifting demands of daily life (selective attention, cocktail party effect) Alterations of consciousness: out-of-body experiences ( floating above yourself. Third body seeing what is happeneing to you. : near death experiences. Sleep paralysis: state of being unable to move just after falling asleep or right before waking up. (sleep state but physically cannot move: mystical experiences. 1- circadian rhythm: cyclical changes in biological processes that occurs on a 24-hour basis. Brain waves drowsiness: disruptions caused by jet lagg are correlated with health problems, biological clock: suprachiasmatic nucleus (scn) located in hypothalamus. Melatonin hormone triggers feelings of sleepiness, increase after dark (ex: why we snooze alarm) Melatonin plays a key role in regulating circadian rhythms.
