Understanding Sleep Disorders: An Overview of Sleep Apnea, Narcolepsy, and Hypnosis - Prof, Study notes of Psychology

Download Understanding Sleep Disorders: An Overview of Sleep Apnea, Narcolepsy, and Hypnosis - Prof and more Study notes Psychology in PDF only on Docsity! 26 March Sleep disorders Sleep apnea Stop breathing temporarily Gasp → pulled out of deeper sleep or wake up Do not get full rest Obese older men, enlarged tonsils One of main reasons for tonsil removal Narcolepsy and cataplexy Narcolepsy – irresistible sleep Cataplexy – random paralysis Hypnagogic hallucination Wild dreams prior to falling asleep Still aware Usually paralyzed Sleep paralysis Lingering paralysis After waking from REM sleep Dream content Everyday experience Recent experiences Negative experiences Why dream? Manifest vs latent content Manifest is storyline Latent is hidden meaning Information processing Activation-synthesis Random neural activity Hypnosis Suggestion to another that perceptions, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors will spontaneously occur Generally involves deep relaxation (increases people’s suggestability) Post-hypnotic amnesia Inability to recall events during hypnosis Post-hypnotic suggestion Suggestion carried out after hypnosis How does it work? Dissociation through divided consciousness Social influence theory Neuro-linguistic programming Relationship between successful patterns of behavior and patterns of thought underlying them Pseudoscience