PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Slow-Wave Sleep, Muscle Tone, Human Brain

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

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Chapter 5 variations in conciseness: sleeping talking (somniloquy, narcolepsy those who suffer from it often fall asleep uncontrollably during their everyday routine, our brains are still active while we sleep. 24 cps), alpha (8-12 cps), theta (4-7 cps), and delta (less than 4 cps: when you are alertly engaged in problem solving, beta waves tend to dominate. When you are relaxed and resting, alpha waves increase. When you slip into a deep, dreamless sleep, delta waves become more prevalent. The sleep and waking cycle: sleep is adaptive because it helps animals restore bodily resources depleted by waking activities, sleepers experience quite a bit of physical and mental activity throughout the night. In addition to an eeg, the other two crucial devices are an electromyography (emg), which records muscular activity and tensions, and an. Infants spend much more of their sleep in the rem stage than adults do.