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Dement and Kleitman
Karten in diesem Stapel (11)
- 1AimInvestigate 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 - 2Sample9 (7M 2F)
opportunity sample
5 were studied intensively
referred to as initials. - 3What were the participants told to abstain from?alcohol and caffine
- 4How were their eye movements recordedEOG
- 5How was the electric activity of their brain recorded?ECG
- 6What 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 - 7When were they woken up?During episodes of horizontal and vertical eye movement
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3 REM 3 NREM
Whim of the researcher - 8Findings: occurrence of REMAverage: lasted 20 minutes every 92 minutes
episodes tended be longer later into the night - 9Findings: REM versus NREM activityMore likely to report having a dream when woken in REM sleep (65%-90%) compared to NREM (3%-12.5%)
- 10Findings: Dream estimatesParticipants were 83% correct.
One participant was to blame for the majority of the incorrect answers - 11Findings: eye movementStrong association between pattern of eye movement and content of dream, tomato dream, looking at people climbing