PSY 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Caffeine, Rapid Eye Movement Sleep, Non-Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
29 Jan 2020
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The degree to which we are awake alertness reflecting whether a person is awake or asleep: 2. Monitoring of info from the environment and from own thoughts. Coma: a state of consciousness in which the eyes are closed and the person is unresponsive and unarousable. Vegetative state: a state of minimal consciousness in which the eyes might be open, but the person is otherwise unresponsive: what are some instances of full consciousness? recovery from anesthesia or coma. Our alertness and wakefulness wanes throughout the day. Sustained attention: the ability to maintain focused awareness on a target or idea, 3. Short periods of extremely fast waves called sleep spindles. Increased heart rate and blood pressure, rapid and irregular breathing: after 10-20 min of rem sleep, we go back to stage 1, rem stands for rapid eye movement. Insomnia is the most common sleep disturbance ( difficulty falling and staying asleep : 1.
