explanations for sleep walking

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AO1: sleep walking happens when someone is partly in SWS and is partly awake. Therefore sleep walking occurs during incomplete ......
arousal
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AO1: There are certain ____ factors that increase the likelihood of sleep walking. They only trigger sleep walking in some individuals so this must mean that some people are more vulnerable to it.
risk
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AO1: Oliviero (2008) suggested that in some _______ and adults the motor activity in the SWS isn't fully developed. He did reearch and found that sleepwalkers had immaturity in the relevant neural circuits
children
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AO2: Who (1968) found that sleep walkers are 10 times more likely to have parents, siblings and children that sleep walk?
Broughton
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AO2: Lecendreux (2003) found that the _______ rate for sleep walking is 50% in identical twins and is 15% in non identical twins
concordance
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AO2: The ________________-Stress model suggests that genes provide the vulnerability but sleep walking only occurs if a stressor in the environment triggers it
diathesis
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AO2: who (2008) believed that sleep deprivation leads to sleep walking only in those who are vulnerable whilst normal individuals would remain unaffected
Zadra
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AO2: sleep walking has real world applications because it has been used as a _______ in murder trials. This creates the issue of whether the accused was actually sleep walking or not.
defence
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Jules Lowe killed his father. Tests showed that he was prone to sleep walking so his defence case was proven however the judge ruled that his seep walking was due to _____________ and he was sent to a psychiatric hospital
insanity
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AO1: There are certain ____ factors that increase the likelihood of sleep walking. They only trigger sleep walking in some individuals so this must mean that some people are more vulnerable to it.

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AO1: Oliviero (2008) suggested that in some _______ and adults the motor activity in the SWS isn't fully developed. He did reearch and found that sleepwalkers had immaturity in the relevant neural circuits

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Card 4

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AO2: Who (1968) found that sleep walkers are 10 times more likely to have parents, siblings and children that sleep walk?

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Card 5

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AO2: Lecendreux (2003) found that the _______ rate for sleep walking is 50% in identical twins and is 15% in non identical twins

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