PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Weight Gain, Hypnagogia, Shift Work
9 Apr 2015
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Subjective awareness of internal and external events. Mediation (mindfulness) falls in the middle of consciousness & sleeping spectrum. Common parlace: consciousness denotes being awake and responsive to one"s environment. Normal and altered states (e. g. , dreaming, drug use, meditation) Activity that goes on within nervous system- electrical activity within brain can lead to diff states of arousal. Relate to certain functions of brain stem. Altered states induced by psychoactive drugs; meditation; hypnosis. Many changes that are occurring in the brain while we sleep. Mechanisms within brain that helps us stay awake during day, help us sleep at night. Tissue damage in certain areas in brain- change in sleep patterns (stages of sleep, insomnia) During sleep- body rests, brain is active (gets recharged) Rejuvenation (stages 3 & 4 slow wave sleep) Various animals sleep @times where they feel safest (preservation/protection) Procedural memory- sleep helps to encode that info. Retention of academic material (learn material- thought evoking, organizing) benefits from good night"s sleep.
