PSY 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Suprachiasmatic Nucleus, Circadian Rhythm, Color Blindness
3 Apr 2017
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Pineal: information from light and dark with less melatonin. Thymes: immune system, strongest as a child. Dominant-recessive traits: two recessive to display recessive. Polygenetic inheritance: more than one genetic, multifactorial. Sex linked inheritance: chromosome inferiority, color blindness. Awareness of thoughts, feelings, external environments at any given time. Altered state of consciousness: sleep, drugs, meditation, universal goal of cultures and societies. Circadian rhythm: cyclical changes in arousal approximating 24 hours a day. What should body temperature be for improved sleeping: at the day"s lowest, there is a correlation for body temperature and sleep, the biological clock in the sun. What"s the best way to avoid jetlag: exposure to 5 hours of sunlight. How does the internal clock reset: 5-hour dose of sunlight, fly west as possible, for shift changes, best to rotate forward, students, don"t cram, alzheimer"s patients have cr disturbances. Larks have highest body temperatures in the a. m. (25%) Owls have highest body temperature in p. m. (25%)
