Higher Psychology: Sleep and Dreams - Cognitive Processes

A short revision podcast to help pupils think about whether it is right to go to war. 

This podcast covers the factors that affect sleep and dreams that are required for the Higher Psychology course. It covers how our sleep is affected by light, alcohol, caffeine and other drugs and how we can use this information to improve our sleep hygiene and get a better night's sleep.

This podcast is aimed at those revising Higher Psychology. It covers 2 of the studies required in the sleep and dreams unit, Dement, W. and Kleitman, N. (1957). The relation of eye movements during sleep to dream activity and Czeisler et. al (1990). Exposure to bright light and darkness to treat physiologic maladaptation to night work.

This podcast covers psychodynamic processes relating to sleep and dreams, which include: — conscious and unconscious processes — manifest and latent content of dreams — defence mechanisms We also talk through how to answer exam questions including, explain, analyse and evaluate questions.

This episode covers cognitive processes as part of the Higher Psychology sleep and dreams unit. It describes sleep to facilitate information processes, Cartwright's Problem Solving Theory and Crick and Mitchison’s (1986) Reorganisational theory of dreaming. We also talk through explain, analyse and evaluate questions in relation to this content.  

This episode covers biological processes relating to sleep and dreams as needed for studying Higher Psychology, which include: — the role of the brain in sleep — circadian rhythms — non-REM and REM sleep and dreaming — Oswald’s (1966) Restoration theory of sleep — Activation Synthesis Theory We also talk through how to answer explain, analyse and evaluate questions in relation to this topic.  

An exploration of Submission and the idea of living according to the Qur'an from a National 5 and Higher RMPS perspective. 

The first of the practices as specified in Higher Islam - but also, very relevant for National 5.