Psych MOD 6&8

Our awareness of ourselves and our environment.

The biological clock; regular bodily rhymes that occur on a 24-hour cycle.

The focusing of the conscious awareness on a particular stimulus.

• RAPID EYE MOVEMENT
• A recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur.

Muscles are relaxed but other body systems are active. The body is internally aroused, with waking-like brain activity, yet asleep and externally calm.

• The tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation.
• Created by repeated awakening during REM sleep.
• (since you are not getting enough sleep you go to REM faster)

Not an occasional inability to sleep when anxious or excited, but persistent problems in falling or staying asleep.

A sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks. The sufferer may lapse directly into REM sleep often at inopportune times.

A sleep disorder characterized by temporary  cessations of breathing during sleep and repeated momentary awakenings.