Biological Psychology.
Date Submitted: 04/05/2004 09:16:14
Category: / Social Sciences / Psychology
Length: 6 pages (1661 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Psychology
Length: 6 pages (1661 words)
Evaluate the characteristics of sleep and consider what evidence there is for an understanding of why we sleep.
Up until the 1950's the majority of researchers believed that 'sleep' was a resting state that was the exact opposite of being awake. It was not until 1953 that work by Kleitman and Aserinsky produced evidence that this was indeed not the case. Berger (1920) was the first researcher to use an electroencephalogram (EEG) to examine electrical brain activity …
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…the majority of mammals. Even though there is not concluding evidence for the function of sleep there is evidence that shows that cognitive ability is kept at its best by maintaining 'normal' sleep patterns.
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