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AP Pysch
Unit 1.5 Sensation & Perception Day 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Consciousness | The individual awareness of your unique thoughts, memories, and environment |
| Memory | Sleep helps process & consolidate new memories |
| Repairing Brain Cells | Fine-tuning our brain Used to carry-out housekeeping tasks ex.) repairing damaged cells |
| Effects of Sleep Deprivation | -risk of diabetes type 2 -risk of heart disease + obesity -tremors -aches -impaired immune system |
| Beta Waves | awake + alert |
| Alpha waves | relaxed + calm |
| Theta waves | light sleep + drowsiness |
| Delta waves | deep sleep |
| Awake | low voltage, high frequency beta waves |
| Drowsy | alpha waves |
| Stage 1 | failing to sleep transition theta waves |
| Stage 2 | sleep spindles & mixed EEG activity "baseline" of sleep sleep spindles occur not easy to wake up |
| Stage 3 & 4 | "deepest" stage of sleep delta, slow waves, sleep |
| Stage 5 | REM vivid dreams body is immobile |