APSY-UE 20 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Nicholas Spanos

• School: New York University
• Department: Applied Psychology
• Course: APSY-UE 20
• Professor: Adina R Schick

Document Summary

First study discovered a basic phenomenon about sleeping & dreaming which made the second study possible. William dement"s work on dream deprivation (the second study) 1952: aserinsky studied sleep, observing sleeping infants > noticed that active eye movements occurred periodically and only occasionally, slow, rolling eye movements occurred. Theorized that active eye movements=dreaming (however, infants could not tell him if they were dreaming or not) Did this study w 20 normal adults. Electronic measuring devices connected by electrodes were used to monitor the participant"s sleep. They were woken up when & interrogated either during periods of eye activities or periods of little to no eye activity (to ask them if they were dreaming & if they could remember what they were dreaming about. 20/27 awakenings during periods of active eye movement recalled visual dreams, other 7 reported the feeling of having dreamed but could not recall content.