Psychology 1100E Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Pineal Gland, Sleepwalking, Narcolepsy

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1100E
• Professor: Mark Cole

Document Summary

Consciousness: person,s subjective awarness, including thoughts, perceptions, experiences of the world and self-awareness. Infradiant rhythm: any rhythm that occurs over a period of time that is longer than a day. Best known infradiant rhythm is the menstrual cycle. Heart rate, urination and some hormonal activity that occurs in 90-120 minutes cycle. Circadian rythms: internally driven daily cycles of approximately 24 hours affecting physiological and behavioural precesses. They involve a tendency to be awake or asleep at speci c times, hungry a speci c times and ability to concentrate at certain times. Wake-sleep cycle is controlled by an interaction between the pineal gland ( melatonin) and. 2 explanation for 24-hours rhythm: entrainment and endogenous rhythms. Entrainment: when biological rhythms become synchronized to external cues such as light temperature or even a clock. Endogenous rhythms: biological rhythm that are generated by our body independent of external cues such as light: hard to remove external cues from a person"s world > cave experiment.