Revision Notes: Sleep Specification * Nature of sleep‚ including sleep stages and lifespan changes and lifespan changes in sleep. * Functions of sleep‚ including evolutionary explanations and restoration theory. Nature of sleep * Sleep is a different state of consciousness where responsiveness to the external environment is diminished. * It occurs daily as circadian rhythms and is composed of an Ultradian cycle of separate stages. * With the intention of the electroencephalograph
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Criminally Insane Many people wrongly believe that there are only two ways to plead in trial‚ guilty and not guilty. There is also another way to plead‚ that most people use to try and escape any criminal responsibility‚ pleading not guilty by reason of insanity. Not guilty by reason of insanity refers to the defense of offenders not to deny the commission of the crime‚ but to assert they lacked the capacity to understand the nature of the crime or that it was wrong (Allen). The definition
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Altered states of consciousness 1- Sleeping: Sleeping is defined as: Altered state of consciousness meaning losing awareness‚ unresponsiveness to the surrounding environment. Normal people spend one third of their life-time sleeping. Sleeping has many functions such as: improving mental health and maintaining the body in its healthy state and avoid the damage of tissues. Sleeping Hours: Age and condition | Sleep Needs | Newborns
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usually occurs. This is because the person is not conscious and he or she does not know what is going on around them and does things that they usually will not do in real life. The real term for sleepwalking is called somnambulism and is known as a parasomnia which is something weird that happens when a person is sleeping. Scientists and doctors have found out that people sleepwalk because of reactions going on in their brain. Sometimes when a person sleepwalks‚ they act out their dreams or reveal their
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TEST 3 STUDY GUIDE CHAPTER 8 STUDY GUIDE (Define/describe all terms) 1. Developmental psychology - know how to apply the definition 2. Assimilation 3. Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development (including stages – see chart on pg. 251). Pay special attention to object permanence and the stage it occurs in. 4. Personal fable 5. Naïve idealism 6. Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development (including levels – see chart on pg. 254) Know how to apply this theory to real-life situations! 7. Erikson’s
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Test # 2 Chapter 3-4 100 Questions 1. __________ are the raw data of experience‚ based on the activation of certain receptors located in the various sensory organs. a) Perceptions b) Emotions c) Cognitions d) Sensations 2. __________ furnishes the raw material of sensory experience‚ whereas __________ provides an interpretation of that material. a) Sensation; transduction medium b) Perception; transduction c) Sensation; perception d) Perception; sensation 3. Perception is
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For thousands of years‚ sleeping and dreaming have been two major topics that hold great interest in many scientific fields of study. However‚ only recently has modern technology advanced to a point where it has made an in-depth study of sleep and dreams possible. In 1937 Alfred Lee Loomis‚ a renowned American scientist and physicist‚ used an electroencephalogram to monitor a sleeping test subject’s electrical brain activity during non-rapid eye movement sleep (“Sleep Disorders and Sleep Deprivation:
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Nrmality is quite hard to define. The line between what is considered normal and abnormal is not always clear. There are different ways to look at normality. Normal Behaviour refers to a lack of significant deviation from the average. Normality is thus the deviation from average. There are quite some models for looking at normality. One model is to place behaviour on a straight line between two point. One extreme point is supernormality‚ and the other is abnormality. Normality is found around
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Paranavithana states that the steady evasion of contemplations‚ sentiments or discussions connected with the memory of harassment eventually lead such victims to a state of mind where they display conditions of sleeping disorders such as insomnia and parasomnia‚ hyper vigilance caused through chronic anxiety disorder‚ eating disorders such as binge eating disorder‚ anorexia and bulimia as well as borderline personality disorder (Paranavithana‚ 2015. Refer appendix pg.30). As stated by George Fink in the
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CU261P/CT261 Understand Mental Health problems 1. 1.1 The main types of mental ill health according to the psychiatric (DSM/ICD) classification system are as follows; Adjustment Disorder- A significantly more difficult adjustment to a life situation than would normally be expected considering the circumstances. For example; Adjustment Disorder with Anxiety and Adjustment Disorder with Mixed Disturbance of Emotions and Conduct. Anxiety Disorder- Experience of abnormal or inappropriate anxiety without
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