Biological Rhythms and SleepPSYA3

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Biological Rhythms and SleepWALT Define key terms Outline and evaluate research into biological rhythms

WILFIndependent Enquirer I can conduct my own research using different sources Team worker Working together to achieve targets

When you see the relationship between things you make connections which will help you to understand learn faster and learn more deeply.

SleepThe most obvious rhythm that exists is the wake/sleep cycle. On average humans spend 1/3rd of their life asleep. If you live to the ripe old age of 90 that equates to 30 whole years of being on the land of nod. Just think what you could use that extra time for. You could work and earn an extra 600K. 1.8 million. Sleep must therefore serve a purpose!

Six men locked away in steel tubes for a year-and-a-half to simulate a mission to Mars have emerged from isolation

What the Exam Requires

A biorhythm is a pattern of physiological or psychological processes which repeats itself over a specified period of time. Write down as many biological rhythms as you can think of. Are these all the same? If not what differences are there between the different types of rhythms?

There are five different types of biorhythm, the difference between them being the period of time that elapses before the behaviour is repeatedBIOLOGICAL RHYTHMS Description Circadian Diurnal Circannual Infradian Ultradian Length of Cycle Approximately 24 hours Changes during the waking day