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Description
Flashcards by Georgia Bishop, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Georgia Bishop
over 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Aim | Investigate the relationship between REM and dreams: Do dreams occur just in REM sleep length of REM and length of dream eye movements correlate to visual experience in dream |
| Sample | 9 (7M 2F) opportunity sample 5 were studied intensively referred to as initials. |
| What were the participants told to abstain from? | alcohol and caffine |
| How were their eye movements recorded | EOG |
| How was the electric activity of their brain recorded? | ECG |
| What were they asked when woken? | Whether they had been dreaming and is so what was the content of dream whether they had been dreaming for 5 or 15 minutes |
| When were they woken up? | During episodes of horizontal and vertical eye movement Random numbers 3 REM 3 NREM Whim of the researcher |
| Findings: occurrence of REM | Average: lasted 20 minutes every 92 minutes episodes tended be longer later into the night |
| Findings: REM versus NREM activity | More likely to report having a dream when woken in REM sleep (65%-90%) compared to NREM (3%-12.5%) |
| Findings: Dream estimates | Participants were 83% correct. One participant was to blame for the majority of the incorrect answers |
| Findings: eye movement | Strong association between pattern of eye movement and content of dream, tomato dream, looking at people climbing |
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