PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Ernest Hilgard, Blood Alcohol Content, Delirium Tremens

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jens Pruessner

Document Summary

Dream: a succession of predominantly visual images experienced during sleep. Interference is the reason we forget dreams, not repression. According to sigmund freud there exist a: manifest content dream you remember and report. However there is a limited empirical evidence for freud"s theories. Explanation of dreams that suggest that they result when the cortex seeks to explain high level of neural activity that occurs during rem sleep. Depressants: slows the activity of the central nervous system. Long term consequences delirium tremens (from alcohol withdrawal) and. Stimulants: drugs that increase the activity of cns (uppers) Amphetamines: used to treat adhd and narcolepsy. Cocaine: extracted from leaves of coca plants, most stimulus of natural origin, short and intense high makes addictive. Methamphetamine: most dangerous drug more addictive than coke or heroin, too much dopamine that wears out the brain. 4 to hours high synthetic high doses of mdma interfere with ability to regulate temperature.