Biological and Cognitive Psychology: Biopsychology of Motivation

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All _ _ sleep, and humans spend a _ of their lives asleep.

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It used to be thought that the body clock simply responded to external stimuli (_). _ (1922) hypothesised that animals have _ _ _.

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If you stay up all night, you feel sleepier as it gets later, but perk up a bit in the morning. Animals kept in total darkness keep to a _ hour cycle (DeCoursey, 1960). Humans kept in an environment with a 28 hour cycle cannot _. Blind and deaf animals generate nearly _ circadian rhythms.

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_ _ are maintained despite most types of brain damage, anaesthesia, food deprivation etc.

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The _ _ maintains the circadian rhythm. It is part of the _, and located just above the _ _.

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Damage to the SCN causes damage to cicadian rhythms. When removed and kept as a tissue culture, it continues to produce a 24hr rhythm of action potentials (Earnest et al, 1979). In _ with a mutant gene coding a _ hour rhythm, the SCN can be removed and implanted in others, and they start to live in this cycle.

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The SCN controls the _ gland. This is an endocrine gland posterior to the the _ and releases _, making us sleepy.

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The stimulus that changes the circadian rhythm is called the _.

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For most land mammals the dominant zeitgeber is light. But we also respond to exercise, noise, temperature and meals. Some marine mammals respond to _. People in _ countries become insomniac (and depressed) during the winter with only two hours sunlight a day. In _ living in constant light the SCN in one _ goes out of phase with other and sleep is disrupted.

Biological and Cognitive Psychology: Biopsychology of Motivation

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All _ _ sleep, and humans spend a _ of their lives asleep.

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It used to be thought that the body clock simply responded to external stimuli (_). _ (1922) hypothesised that animals have _ _ _.

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If you stay up all night, you feel sleepier as it gets later, but perk up a bit in the morning. Animals kept in total darkness keep to a _ hour cycle (DeCoursey, 1960). Humans kept in an environment with a 28 hour cycle cannot _. Blind and deaf animals generate nearly _ circadian rhythms.

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_ _ are maintained despite most types of brain damage, anaesthesia, food deprivation etc.

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The _ _ maintains the circadian rhythm. It is part of the _, and located just above the _ _.

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The SCN controls the _ gland. This is an endocrine gland posterior to the the _ and releases _, making us sleepy.

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The stimulus that changes the circadian rhythm is called the _.

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