PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Final Guide: Twin Study, Absenteeism, Retrospective Memory

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

Document Summary

According to statistics canada, many canadians have cut down on the amount of sleep they get in order to squeeze more out of their days. Sleep becomes part of our conversation and consciousness only after those occasional nights when we do not sleep well. Narcolepsy: a serious sleep disorder in which those who suffer from it often fall asleep uncontrollably during their everyday routine. Sleep has been shown to play an important role in helping us remember things. Men tend to get less sleep than women. Higher incomes sleep less, and married adults sleep less than unmarried adults. Consciousness is the awareness of internal and external stimuli. William james (1902) created stream of consciousness: your consciousness is continuously changing. Psychologists are also interested in unconscious influences on behaviour. Almost every human behaviour comes from a mixture of conscious and unconscious processing .